Bill Noren is a musician and composer. He sat down at his computer to order a new doumbek — a goblet-shaped drum — that he’d use to keep the beat with his Middle Eastern belly dance drum group. Noren ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Deeply Rooted Dance Theater is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary and they’re teaming up with Bronzeville Winery to support arts programming. Makeda Crayton from Deeply Rooted and Eric ...

CBC is proud to return as premier broadcast partner of the annual Chutzpah! Festival, November 12 to 23 at various Vancouver venues. Now in its 25th year, Chutzpah! is a performing arts festival that ...

Belly dancing plays a significant role in rituals and celebrations. The natural movements not only symbolize fertility and femininity, it continues to be a dynamic and evolving art form reflecting the ...

Husband and wife Blue Siytangco and Anna Schkade-Siytangco are co-owners of Oriental Phoenix Arts. (Jovanna Aguilar/Community Impact) For over a decade, husband and wife Blue Siytangco and Anna ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The programs were all over the map, but the dancers held the season together. Six were promoted, including India Bradley, the first Black woman to become a ...

Tanya Donelly took pains to point this out halfway through discussing her band Belly’s two upcoming shows: one on Oct. 23, and another on Nov. 28, both at the Paradise Rock Club. Just two days earlier ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Collaborating with the choreographer Jamar Roberts for the New York City Ballet fashion gala, Iris van Herpen created costumes that merged fantasy and form. Collaborating with ...

Today I go to a belly dancing restaurant and become a belly dancer! LOL! This was a great first time experience and we had a good laugh with my family. Make sure to go out and try something new today!

NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year's winners of ...

Kalyani Priyadarshan stars alongside Ravi Mohan and Krithi Shetty in the Tamil film Genie. A song called Abdi Abdi was released from it. After the success of the Malayalam superhero film Lokah, ...

Actresses Krithi Shetty and Kalyani Priyadarshan have set the internet on fire with the fiery moves in the recently released song Abdi Abdi from the film Genie. The song composed by AR Rahman is the ...