About this Site

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The purpose of the Belly Dance Florida site is to provide info for Middle Eastern dancers and enthusiasts who are living in or visiting Florida, or perhaps just thinking about coming here.

I am Sherezzah Bint al-Waha, your site owner and webmistress. Being based in Southeast Florida (Palm Beach county to be precise), I am naturally more aware of people and events in my local area. But it is not my intention to have the site be Southeast-Florida-centric. I really would like to cover the entire state. However, Florida is a big state and it's probably not possible for any single person to know everything that's going on... without help.

I want to make this site represent Florida as completely as I can. My goal is to have a useful, non-partisan, informational site. If you see something missing, it's probably only because I don't know about it. So please help me out! If you have any suggestions, comments, or updates for anything on this site, send them on to me! See the submission info for details.

If you want to link to this site, please see my info on linking to this site.

I can foresee this site expanding to include more stuff, but for now I have the following sections:

	News: Auditions, jobs, requests, etc.
	Events: Calendar of happenings.
	Teachers: Classes and instruction.
	Performers: Solo dancers, dance troupes, and musicians.
	Vendors: Costumes, services, etc.
	Places: Where to go.
	Organizations: Local clubs, organizations, newsletters, mailing lists, etc.
	Miscellany: Odds and ends.
	Links: Other sites.

Site news

This site is being seen by lots of people! When I checked in May 2006, beledy.net was averaging almost 3000 client hits a day, the vast majority of which were in Belly Dance Florida. This is not so new, but pictures (part of the contact info for teachers and performers) may be available for e-cards at my nearby posty site.

Most of the sections are further organized by region to make it easier for you to find information local to you.

Caveat: most of the listings on this site are provided by the people involved. A listing on this site does not imply I endorse the teacher, vendor, event, or whatever.

More about your site owner

As mentioned above, I'm Sherezzah Bint al-Waha from Palm Beach county. Although it's not my primary intent to use this site to promote my personal interests, I feel it only fair to point out that some of the sites linked here are mine: specifically, those for me or the Rising Phoenix Dancers (my dance troupe).

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Art credits

The Pharaonic Phlamingos on this site were adapted from clipart taken from