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Layla Isis

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Because you can never have enough Petite Jamilla:

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Petite Jamilla -- always a favorite.

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I think this is a different Ansuya video than the one I posted before. No problem either way. You never can have too much Ansuya.

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Asena; Turkish style. I tend to prefer the slower, more sinuous schools, but the vigor of a Turkish dancer is one of the more athletic wonders of the world.

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Kaya and Sadie

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Haven't done one of these in a while, but here's one I couldn't resist: Paris Hilton, judging the Miss Turkey competition, gets pulled up and tries her best. Compare and contrast:

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Maya Székely

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Drum and drummer edition! In both cases, I believe, the drummer is the incomparable Issam Houshan.



Bozenka, and



Jillina. (With Rachel Brice backing up Houshan in this one.)

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Sofia Sarkisyan, Armenian dancer with a style that seems to veer toward gymnastics.

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There's some great bellydance on TV shows from Lebanon and Turkey. Some of it has been ripped, but you have to put up with the annoyance of Middle Eastern television, with logos and screen crawls everywhere, and the production is crappy, with too many camera cuts and zooms that miss essential parts of the dance. Nonetheless, I think this one is worth it. It doesn't say so, but I believe the dancer is Didem, an athletic performer from Turkey. At least it looks like her to me, down to the navel jewelry (which I despise). Enjoy.

Here's Didem herself. See if you think I'm right. Drum solos are her specialty:

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"Sinuous" Russian dancer (no name given)

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Salome

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Turkish Belly Dance-ELCIN - Watch more amazing videos here

From Turkish television, apparently.

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Suhaila Salimpour

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A girl, an idea, a wind machine et voila Queen Cassie

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"Henna," a Hawaiian-born-and-raised dancer who took up belly-dance and has been performing in Tokyo, where the scene is quite flourishing.

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OK, not really pure bellydance per se, but this is what your pop music videos can look like when your singers come from a place like Egypt. "Eba'Abelny," by Ruby.

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OK, you have to put up with the annoying Regis intro to get to this clip of Rachel Brice, but it will be worth it, I promise: