

Now, as I reach back in my memory of these exciting times to compose this article, I’m grateful for the researched archiving amassed and available in today’s technological world. The sociological change of American society in the 1970s also informed our dance community. We always performed to live music recorded music was rare at dance events. Knowledge had to be directly and carefully mined from academic, ethnic and cultural sources. The abundance of inspiration in that era was almost beyond understanding yet once upon a time before the Internet, music, imagery and information was less readily available. The Belly dance scene in 1970s Los Angeles: It is difficult to spotlight succinctly even one portion of a vibrant, vast and quickly growing community of Middle Eastern dancers, their enthusiasts, and the ethnic communities, musicians, festivals and supper clubs that supported the dance arts.
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“I live by a man’s code designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time, I always remember that a women’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”Ĭarol Lombard quote from “Women’s Wit and Wisdom” "Perfumes of Araby" in the 1970s, Part 1 by Stasha Vlasuk
