Text Box: Women's Bellydance Center Text Box: Listen to your Heartbeat and Dance Text Box:   Mena Jajel Text Box: March Newsletter Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 2,  March 1st 2010 Text Box: Agreed - Belly dancing has a bad rep. It's largely perceived as cheesy, but in fact it's part of an ancient dance style, with a more classical strand. Although primarily Middle Eastern, it extends into Turkey and Greece and throughout Syria and Lebanon. The Western image of belly dancing is associated with Greek or Middle Eastern restaurants, or some form of low-cost home seduction. The truth, of course, is something entirely different. It has its roots in one of the world’s most ancient forms of dance, requiring extremely complex body control to execute properly - and what is generally referred to now as “raks sharqi” or as its original name “baladi” has nothing to do with the belly, translating instead as "country dance” or folkloric. Text Box: GiGi Fayed Text Box: Modern Belly Dancer by Julianna Text Box: Beyond the Veil ; a brief look at the use of veils in belly dance by Mena Jajel Text Box: Beyond the Veil   The term "veil" can often be misleading to the           beginner. The dictionary defines the veil as "a piece   of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or  to enhance the appearance," or as "something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals: as in a veil  of smoke; the veil of death."  According to these   definitions Belly Dancers do not actually dance with a veil.  It would be more accurate to say that they are dancing with a piece of fabric.  Text Box: Continued page 2 Text Box: Continued page 3 Text Box: GiGi Fayed is a dancer, master teacher, choreographer with over 30 years of teaching and performing experience. Specializing in Flamenco, Zambra, Spanish Arabic Fusion, Salsa and Middle Eastern dance, Ms. Fayed holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Dance and a State of Florida K-12 Certification in Dance. As a dancer Ms. Fayed this has performed nationwide and abroad appearing in operas, television, commercials and film. A teacher of teachers, Ms. Fayed has taught at the University of California, Irvine; Barry University; Miami Dade State College; New World School of the Arts; Orange County High School of the Arts; and Dillard High School of the Performing Arts.  Presently she is Dance Director at the Schumann School Visual and Performing Arts Program in Vero Beach Text Box: Gigi Fayed—Master Teacher Flamenco Arabic Fusion Text Box: Workshop with GiGi Fayed And  Hafla April 24th and 25th,2010 Arabic Flamenco Fusion Veil and Fan work Zambra Mora Email:thewbctr@gmail.com for more information Text Box: Newsletter Spotlight

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