Bellydancing
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Bellydancing – August 2004
Nikia Amira, a favorite dancer from Ogden, Utah has only been dancing for six years. Six years ago she had never watched a belly dance performance. When a friend invited her to a belly dance class, she didn’t think she would like it very much. After one class with Mashara Rabia, she was bitten by
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Bellydancing – July 2004
“I like to have ideas of dance combinations for a performance, and then find ways to get there while I am dancing,” she says. If you are watching, you get to go there with her.If there is such a thing as royalty in our belly dance community, then Aja is the Crown Princess. I consider