3. issue, 2008

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Eilat Festival

The Eilat festival that premiered in January 2005 is Israel's biggest event of the Bellydance scene, attracting dancers from Israel and worldwide every year! This year will prove to be even brighter and richer than
last. Workshops, performances, a colourful bazaar, and encounters with all those who live, breathe, eat, and drink belly dancing—all in a three-day extravaganza at The Golden Tulip hotel with the biggest halls and most pampering conditions available. press here to view a video clip from last year’s festival ... more
   
Nova Orient 2008

Belly dance in Poland is becoming more and more popular. It is touched upon in press, propagated on television, and belly dancers are often invited to perform during various cultural or company events, wedding receptions, or birthday parties.
  What is more, an increasing number of women of all ages eagerly participate in belly dance workshops appreciating the beneficial influence of the dance on their physical and mental well-being. Hence, it is hard to believe that a few years ago Raqs Sharqi was barely known in Poland ... more
   

Club Sunshine
Centro Friulano Amatori Danza Sportiva e Ballo Sociale

During a warm and windy summer night in 1981, sitting on a green garden just outside a good Italian restaurant not so far from Venice, a small group of people took their decision. Moved from their love for all kind of dances, thinking about dance in both

  show and sport aspects but, mainly, as a way of life, Club Sunshine is born on August 12th. It takes just seven months, to make Club Sunshine able to organize a very small but successful dance competition. This was the first edition of “City of Palmanova Trophy” and nobody could never have the mind to imagine what today it is !. ... more
   

India - Land of Mysteries

As the bellydance is spreading all over Asia in last years is coming also to India the country of one milliard people. Bellydance is presented mostly by foreign bellydancers coming from all over the world sometimes just passing or traveling in India by themselves or they were invited by some event agency of India as luckily as me. In my case I was invited by event agency for months August-September 2007 for performing all over India and mostly for shows at weddings or company parties. Indian audience is very interested in this new art from middle east and prefers bellydance with props which made me to work harder and learn styles I was not dancing before. Work in

  India was a big challenge for me because I was in Egypt, traveling and studying dance for two months when I got this offer from India. So only after one week I spent in my country, Czech republic, I was on the way to next beautiful destination, this time Asia! ... more
   

The Hamam

A hamam or hammam is a steam-bath
that above all can be found in the Arabic
area, in the Iranian society and in Turkey,
which is an important component of the
Islamic bath-culture. It is also known
under the name “Turkish Bath” ...
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