Members of Romania's Roma -gypsy - community perform during the "Miss Piranda 2011" beauty and dance contest in Bucharest. The contestants were judged not just on their beauty, but also on their gypsy ...

On certain mornings at the Northborough Senior Center, an interesting mingling of sounds echoes through the dining area. Music that’s a combination of early American hip-hop and Middle Eastern beats ...

To Bianca Boll, belly dancing is a lot more than sparkly costumes, jiggly movements and exotic music. It was 21 years ago in Albuquerque, N.M., that Boll first experienced belly dancing, and she was ...

For Ansuya Rathor, there was no questioning whether belly dancing would be a part of her life. Her mother, Jenaeni Rathor, was a blonde, blue-eyed belly dancer in the 1960s and '70s — an anomaly that ...

Though it's the Middle East that put belly dance on the world map, the origin of the form is shrouded in mystery. One of the legends suggests that its complex hip movements have their roots in the ...