Links

Useful Links

• Shira's "The Art of Middle Eastern Dance" - A wealth of information including articles on history, Arabic song lyrics and more links!
• Salome's "Magic of Oriental Dance" - This is the official site of Salome. Features belly dance instructor and event directories, on-line lessons, articles and star interviews
• Oriental Dance for Males - For a male perspective on oriental dance, try these links from Shira's site
• Belly Dance Home Page - A great place to start to hunt down useful information. This site links to a great variety of other online resources.
• Morocco's Site - Morocco has "been there". She has a wealth of first hand information.
• Fat Chance Belly Dance - Californian Tribal - a fusion style from the States
• The Gilded Serpent - an online magazine. Great value!
• Desert Moon Dance Academy - Great information about almost everything you could ever want to know!
• The Gothic Belly Dance Resource - An interesting look into the alternative side of gothic fusion bellydance.
• Gypsy Caravan - Tribal style belly dance site with a wealth of information.
• Tribal Belly Dance - A good site to find information about the different tribal styles. Includes a variety of articles, photos and resources.
• Oriental Dance TV - Watch select DVD clips, documentaries and tv segments for free, purchase DVDs etc. Quality of video is really good. It is a streaming site, which means it will take some time to download and may be slow on dial up connections.

Sister Organisations

• MEDA - Middle Eastern Dance Association (British Columbia, Canada)
• MOSAIC - Based in the UK
• NW Belly Dance Source - Information for events,classes, workshops, and venues in the Seattle Area.
• DANZ - Dance Aotearoa New Zealand - Not a MED site but useful to NZ dancers

Vendors

• Blue Scarab - Belly dance retailers and wholesalers based in Adelaide, Australia. We have the largest selection of designer costumes, clothing and accessories in Australasia, and are happy to send orders to New Zealand.
• DanceArt - Danceart is a leading supplier of bellydance music, videos, costumes and can supply all your requirements to help you make your own costumes, including patterns, beading, fringing and appliques (NZ based)
• Dance Cabit - New Zealand supplier of Sharif Wear.
• Isis Exchange Belly Dance - Costumes, music, props, links etc.
• JEWEL - Judith's site for helping with computer documents in word, excel etc. Offering a discount to MEDANZ members.
• Kay's Beaded Fringes - An American based ebay store which sells beautiful, good quality glass fringing, at very reasonable prices. "Kay is friendly and very helpful, and I can personally attest to the quality of the fringing she sells. Mine arrived in 5 weeks and it's exactly as described!" - Kelly
• Med'Devi Ink - Tempest's site. A tribal enthusiasts paradise. Tempest offers a range of excellent quality gothic/industrial inspired costume pieces and arkwork. "If you're looking for a unique item, I can personally recommend you purchase from Tempest." - Kelly
• Nevina.com - As a certified belly dance instructor, Nevina provides belly dancing videos and DVDs with valuable information on belly dance steps and movements to inform, educate and be a source of belly dance information.
• Out of Eygpt - Browns Bay, Auckland. Out of Eygpt sell costumes and accessories along with a range of other Eygtian style products.
• Windows of the East - New Zealand vendor of costumes and accessories imported from Egypt, USA and Australia. Reasonable prices. Buy with confidence from a website owned and operated by a NZ dancer. Check out www.windowsoftheeast.co.nz
• Ziva's Henna Body Art - Ziva from Wellington's page devoted to the art of Henna.

New Zealand Dancer's Sites

• 5th Element Belly Dance - a group of soulful performing bellydancers based in Taranaki, New Plymouth in New Zealand.
• Abbraccia School of Dance - this site by Zahara (Monique Feron) includes belly dance, Street Latin and Seduction classes
• Art of Bellydance - Liz's Art of Bellydance in Auckland offering classes, belly dance items for sale, dancers for hire etc.
• Art of Movement - (Tanya in Tauranga) includes promo material, class timetables, and newsletter
• Aziza's Sydney site - one of our ex-pat members
• Baladi Banat School of Bellydance - By Joy of Upper Hutt, includes class times, information and photos
• Belisha Dance Club - Belisha of the Bay of Plenty
• Desert Veils Site - by Farida of Christchurch, including class times & events
• Ishtar Belly Dancer - Ishtar of Auckland offering classes, photos, belly dance information etc.
• Kashmir's Raqs Site - regularly updated with info on Safe Dance, dance and cultural background, BellyBeat references, plus dance, costuming, articles and class times & FAQs
• Kimberley Oryantal - Includes articles written by Kimberley, dancing and teaching in Turkey/New Zealand as well as photo galleries
• Kiwi Iwi - The official site of Kiwi Iwi
• Medance Limited - Angela Mott/aka Shakeelah based in Auckland's North Shore.
• Moonjelly Belly Dance - Moonjelly based in Wellington.
• Oasis Dance Camp - Mary Lynn is a director of Oasis (the longest running residential dance camp in the United States specializing in dances of the Middle East and the Arab world)
• Oasis for Dance - Dallia, Bellydance school based in Auckland, central/east
• Sameera Belly Dancer
• Shiraz - Shiraz Belly Dance Troupe of Christchurch.
• School of Contemporary Belly Dance - First started by Gendi, the school has become the first student-owned non-profit incorporated belly dance school in NZ.
• Ya Habibi Rock - Fina from the North Shore, Auckland's site.