BELLY DANCERS & BOLLYWOOD!

Belly Dancers & Bollywood brings three separately named dance programs together. Raks Harissa gives traditional belly dance a modern choreographic treatment, using jewelled costumes and props such as wings, veils, sticks, swords and a fire shamadan. Bollywood Dhamaka mixes movement associated with popular Indian films and newer fusion styles. Then Silk Road Dancers traces several cultural traditions through costume and dance, including material connected with Lebanon, Ancient Persia, Turkey and Egypt. That program can also draw on Bollywood and modern belly dance. Across the options, prop skills range from stick twirling to balancing a sword.