11 min

Celebrating 30 Years in Belly Dancing Hip Phylosophy by Belly Dancer Leyla Najma

    • Performing Arts

Back to the Future -
This year, May of 2016, marks 30 years of living, breathing and dreaming belly dance. Sometimes I can’t believe belly dance has been a part of my life for more than half of my life because in some ways it flew by within a blink of an eye and in other ways, it’s been a marriage slowed down by a quirky harmonious contention.

“Belly dance is my celebrated and misunderstood oxymoron.”

Back to the Future -
This year, May of 2016, marks 30 years of living, breathing and dreaming belly dance. Sometimes I can’t believe belly dance has been a part of my life for more than half of my life because in some ways it flew by within a blink of an eye and in other ways, it’s been a marriage slowed down by a quirky harmonious contention.

“Belly dance is my celebrated and misunderstood oxymoron.”

11 min