EAST HAMPTON - As exotic music swells through the East Hampton Senior Center, Valarie Bergeron puts her budding students through a set of mild gyrations with their borrowed veils gently swaying to the ...

MOORHEAD - Belly dancing often conjures up images of a scantily clad woman seductively shaking her hips for bunch of men. But the true performance art, known as Middle Eastern dance, is very pro-woman ...

A husband who wouldn't take her dancing led Judy D. Fox to find the Middle East at the YMCA. The La Crosse woman enrolled in a Middle Eastern dance class. For 30 years, it's kept her hips moving. "I ...

More decades ago than she will admit, Nancy Bartlett went to a community college and signed up for the only exercise class available — belly dancing. Now performing under the stage named Isis, the ...