Middle Eastern Dance Sites with a Focus on Regional Events

(The links on this page were last checked November 24, 2001.)

Special Events

• Belly Dancer of the Year Pageant (in California)
• Desert Dance Festival Website (a California event; site also has some general-interest articles)
• International Academy of Middle Eastern Dance (belly dance awards; activities in California)
• Lion of Babylon's Homepage (Home of the Bellyjam Festival, also info about Arabic culture)
• Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp (each August in Mendocino Woodlands, CA)
• Oasis Dance Camp (Michigan, Washington, and Florida/Georgia, all in the fall)
• Rakkasah (The USA's, and probably the world's, largest bellydance festival; in California and now the East coast as well)

• Belly Dance Florida

• Atlanta Dance
• Atlanta Oriental Dance (also includes info for the Southeast US)
• Austin Bellydance - ABD
• Bay Area Belly Dance Page (San Francisco bay, that is)
• Beledi Club of Huntsville (Alabama)
• Belly Dance New York (cool top photo!)
• DigitalMuse (hosts several groups and individuals from the Northwest)
• Guild of Oriental Dance, based in Minneapolis
• Houston Area Belly Dance Association
• MECDA, the Middle Eastern Culture & Dance Association, based in California but with chapters elsewhere
• Middle-Eastern Dance in New England
• Midwest Bellydance Happenings
• New Mexico is included in Celine's site
• North Carolina Belly Dance
• Phoenix Belly Dance (Arizona)
• The Seattle Source for Middle Eastern Dance
• Southwestern Virginia Middle Eastern Dance Association
• Utah Raks
• WAMEDA (Washington (DC) area)
• Washington DC, included as part of Cleopatra's Closet

• MEDA (of Western Canada)
• Melbourne Belly Dance (Australia)
• OMEDA, the Ontario Middle Eastern Dance Association (Canada)

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