 | Tribal Fusion - Yoga Isolations & Drills for Bellydance
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $11.39 This is a great follow along video for basic yoga stretches and bellydance drills. I use my weightbelt for the bellydance drills to help slow things down even more and really feel the moves.
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 | Bellydance for Beginners with Suhaila: Fitness Fusion - 4 Volume Gift Set (Buns, Jazz, Pilates, Yoga)
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $45.69 You can preview all of these videos if you have a Netflix membership.
I really like the pilates and buns workout videos. They are a little bit advanced for new students but you can grow into them.
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 | Learn Lavish Layers with Ansuya - Belly Dance Lesson DVD
Buy used from: $29.95 We use many of these combinations in our bellydance workout class
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 | Looking for Little Egypt by Donna Carlton
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.67 The history of the beginning of Bellydance in America. Very well done. This is a well researched book. Not light reading.
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 | Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.45 This is a personal story of one womens experience growing up with the dance. There is not alot of history or instruction but I enjoyed it and thought you might too.
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 | The Belly Dance Book : Rediscovering the Oldest Dance by Tazz Richards
Buy used from: $14.99 This is a nice overview. There are a series of well written essays on various topics.
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 | Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World by Wendy Buonaventura
Buy used from: $14.30 This book would be worth owning even if only for the pictures. Please read the "history" presented with a cautious eye.
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 | The Romany Trail, Part 1 - Gypsy Music into Africa
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $29.13 You can rent both part 1 and 2 at Scarecrow Video.
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 | The Romany Trail, Part 2 - Gypsy Music into Europe
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.95 |
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Buy used from: $34.99 Beautiful! This Music and Dance ethnography of the Rom people follows the migration pattern.
This movie is only available in the USA in VHS format now. There is a dvd version but it's zoned for Japan.
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 | Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by Alex Grey
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $9.84 inspiration
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 | Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery by Eric Franklin
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.98 |
 | When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm by Layne Redmond
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.43 Not specif to BD but inspiring for us as rhythm makers.
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 | Belly Dance! The Best of George Abdo and His Flames of Araby Orchestra by George Abdo
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 Eddie "The Sheik" and George Abdo were my first Bellydance albums. They are a nice introduction to the cabaret style of music that was being played in America in the 70's
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 | Whirling by Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Buy new: $15.45 / Used from: $9.48 I have almost everything that Omar Faruk Tekbilek has released. You'll never be sorry.
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 | Fire Dance
Buy new: $15.45 / Used from: $8.89 We'll be using the track "Ask" from this album for the June Student Show
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 | Gypsy Fire by Richard A. Hagopian and Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $6.49 |
 | Sabla Tolo: Journeys into Pure Egyptian Percussion by Hossam Ramzy
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $9.49 DRUMS!
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 | Immortal Egypt
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.10 |
 | Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ by Peter Gabriel
Buy used from: $1.74 |
 | The Heartbeat of Bellydance: Rhythms & Belly Dance Combinations for Drum Solos
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $7.82 There is a ton of information on this DVD. It's a really good value. It's not the most complete Rhythm study DVD but it might be the cheapest and it has some good stuff to get you started.
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 | Costuming from the Hip by Dawn Devine Brown
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $18.94 I had this when I first started.
There are alot of reasources available on-line now and Dina the Costume Goddess from Seattle has a very helpful and inexpensive series www.costumegoddess.com
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 | Ali MacGraw - Yoga Mind & Body
Buy used from: $31.00 |
 | Kundalini Yoga With Gurmukh
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $7.87 At first you'll laugh and then you'll tease me for telling you to get this but then slowly Gurumukh will win you over and you'll be buying it for other people and they will laugh...
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 | Bellydance Superstars 1 by Various Artists
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $7.95 One of the cool things about this ablum other then it's just a fun mix of music is that you can see dancers putting the tunes to work on the BDSS performance DVD's
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 | Bellydance Superstars Live in Paris at the Folies Bergere
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.73 This is my favorite BDSS release
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 | Bellydance Superstars
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.64 |
 | The Crazy Stranger
Buy used from: $50.00 The crazy stranger and Vengo are both done by the same director as Latcho Drom. He is a genius. Tony Gatlif. Don't miss him.
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 | Vengo
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.68 Great music! Watch everything this director makes. He has a new film out called Exiles. There is a great trance dancing scene in that.
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 | Arabesque by Various Artists
Buy used from: $20.68 My number one favorite bellydance workout cd
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 | Arabic Groove by Various Artists
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.50 |
 | "A Trade like Any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Buy new: $21.46 / Used from: $10.49 This is a very eye opening look at how Oriental Dance is viewed in Egypt.
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 | The Bellydancers of Cairo
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $15.26 This movie reinforces the information you'll learn in "A Trade Like Any Other" It's well done and very sobering.
You can get this from Netflix. It was in some part produced by the BDSS.
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 | Bellydancing with Fire with Leslie Rosen
Buy new: $40.00 This is my instructional DVD for working with Fire. I am very proud of it. It has very comprehensive information on adding candles, handlamps and palm torches to your dance.
This information would be valuable even if you aren't planning to work with fire. You can apply the information to any prop work.
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