Bellydancing — A History & an Art

Filmmaker Alicia Dhanifu (M.F.A., UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate), 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 

Available for research at UCLA