A few shimmies and hip drops can empower even the timidest woman to come — or dance — out of her shell. The trick to belly dancing is "all in the torso," said Garnett Kepler, longtime artistic ...

At 23, Paulina Casillas Landeros from Jalisco, Mexico, took her body modifications to an unconventional level by removing her belly button. She gifted it to her then-boyfriend Daniel Ramirez, ...

A group of movements that awaken feminity; a way to discover yourself and your inner being. That’s how dancer Kerlyn Araya describes belly dance, a practice that has helped her to grow as a person and ...

CAIRO — In a shop that looks and feels like the inside of a vaudeville trunk, Ahmed Diaa Eddin sits amid beads and sequins bargaining hard with a woman from Saudi Arabia over satin and chiffon. “200.” ...