WITH 130 000 followers and more than 2.7 million likes on TikTok, Phoenix belly dancer Preshina Ramsunker is standing strong, breaking stereotypes and promoting body positivity.The 27-year-old online ...

Rakia Hassan, 62, a retired dancer, recalls that in her childhood, males peddled their skills along with women on Muhammad Ali Street, then a one-stop shop for belly-dancer hires.

Belly dancing has its origins more than 3500 years ago in Northern Africa. Egyptian women would dance for each other and older women would instruct younger ones. The goal was to build strength and ...

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Rakia Hassan, 62, a retired dancer, recalls that in her childhood, males peddled their skills along with women on Muhammed Ali Street, then a one-stop shop for belly-dancer hires.

And at a very young age discovered what some people would call male belly dancing, but which he refers to as 'Oriental dancing' — owing to it's longer, nearly 6,000-year lineage.