Bellydancing: A History and an Art
- Release Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 22m
- Directed By
- Alicia Dhanifu
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