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We danced quite a bit & then we took a short break. Until that moment we had not exchanged any words. I asked her, “what is this dance you are doing?” She says “middle eastern.”

That was the beginning of my introduction to raq sharqui—in the western common parlance it’s called “belly dance” but it’s a set of physical vocabulary that invokes movement literally from head to toe. This is a beautiful world.