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    The Goddess-Suheir Zaki interview

    I just found this online today, I'm not sure how many of you have seen it already though. . . The interview also contains post 1970's pictures of the lovely Suheir Zaki. Can I just say how jealous I am of the fact that this woman (40 years my senior) STILL has the face and body of a true...
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    Nancy Ajram-Salemoli Alieh

    For the most part, when it comes to picking songs for my routine, I usually try to pick instrumentals aka songs with no lyrics. But then I accidentally came upon this song about 2 and a half months ago. . . Do any of you have that one song. . .that everytime you hear it, your mind instantly...
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    Tonight's the night. . .

    Well, it's my moment of truth everyone. . . Yours truly is officially putting on her first belly dance performance in front of a live audience in just a few hours! My current mood is excited/anxious. I've practiced and practiced, tried different songs, gave previews for my family, and then...
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    Has anyone else tried this. . .?

    I remember a few months ago, I was reading this article on Yahoo about health and beauty items that people have right in their own kitchens. One of the suggestions was the use of regular store bought sugar. The article said sugar was a great way of exfoliating the skin/removing dead skin...
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    Had a major breakthrough last night

    So less than 12 hours ago, I asked my mom if we could just sit and have a serious talk about various things that had been racking my brain for the past several weeks. What I thought was going to be just a 20-30 mintue discussion ended up turning into a 2 and a half hour discussion! Without...
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    Suheir Zaki physique??

    I was recently reading some old post on one of the forums the other day (I can't remember which one, but the original post was from 2007) and the person who started the thread was asking if a belly dancer had less credibility if their costume showed more skin? After a week or so afterward...
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    Question about shoulder shimmies. . . .

    For some reason, I can't come up with the right words to ask my question, so I'm just gonna try and get it all out to the best of my ability. . .:lol: So I know that the shoulder shimmy is one of the core moves of belly dancing. I've seen it done with gentle-medium vigor, and then I've seen...
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    Offensive comments about self taught dancers

    Forgive me, because I'm about to get on my soapbox right now, but I promise to keep my comments lady-like and rated PG. . . So about half an hour ago, I was online just looking up random articles and websites about belly dancing and what not (because that's what I tend to do at 6am when I'm...
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    Yes!!! I've finally scheduled my first performance!!

    That's right dudes and dudettes, Lady Fatima has finally booked her first performance!! Here's how it went down. . . This past weekend while at my grandfather's house, he mentioned that our family reunion was coming up this summer and that he and some of his cousins planned on putting together...
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    The goddess, Suheir Zaki

    This is my ABSOLUTE favorite clip of my idol, Suheir Zaki. Her style is absolute perfection to me, and it is the style I use for my own performance (very soft, feminine, sort of innocent):lol: I am also in love with her figure (which my own figure closely resembles:cool:) The way she always...
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    Controling facial expressions

    Now that I've more or less got the dancing part down, I was wondering if anyone had any tips/advice for controling facial expressions while dancing. I've created a stage "persona" (whom I call 'Lady Fatima Zaki':lol:) and I've decided that Lady Fatima maintains a happy/playful/innocent persona...
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    You know you're obsessed with belly dancing if/when. . .

    Okay, so I was in school the other day (sitting in a 3 hour Criminal Law class. . .:rolleyes:) and to keep my self from faking an injury just so I could get out of class. . .I started to jot down some random thoughts I was having :lol: I started thinking about how much the art of belly dancing...
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    Other types of music?

    Forgive me if the topic of this thread has been previously posted, but I was just curious to know if any of you ever use or prefer to use non-Arabic/non-Middle Eastern music to belly dance to? Although I ADORE Middle Eastern music (anything with a lot of drum use is definately my favorite:D)...
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    Sucker Punch: This movie got me thinking. . .

    {Warning: Spoilers about the movie 'Sucker Punch' are going to be discussed. If you haven't seen the movie yet and don't want to read about it, don't go any further} Okay, so there's this movie that just came out called 'Sucker Punch'. For the record, I'm the type of girl who HATES chick...
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    Suggestions/advice for doing backbends. . .?

    I was just curious if anyone had any advice or tips for doing a good back bend while standing up:think: I can do a back bend while kneeling on the floor with no problem at all (once I worked at it for a few weeks lol) but arching my back while standing up is toughie. . . See, I have scoleosis...
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