Bellydancing: A History and an Art (movie)

Bellydancing: A History and an Art (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Alicia Dhanifu
  • Release date: 2/1/1979
  • Run time: 22 min.

Movie description

Filmmaker Alicia Dhanifu, who appears in director Jamaa Fanaka’s Emma Mae, constructs a rigorous and beautifully rendered history of belly dancing — its roots and history, forms and meanings. The filmmaker performs this art as well, alone and with other dancers. —Shannon Kelley