Album: Crimson Kisses Bellydance & Flamenco Salon at Project One 02/13/09

Album: Crimson Kisses Bellydance Salon
By Jill Parker and Gina Grandi, a show at Poleng Lounge celebrating the art of bellydance.

Album: Baxtalo Drom hosted by the Hubba Hubba Revue
Friday, JANUARY 2nd, two AMAZING cabaret shows join forces to bring you the best GYPSY BAZAAR, BURLESQUE REVUE and BELLY DANCE show in town!! We are so excited about this show! We'll be featuring a genuine gypsy bazaar offering hand crafted wares by local artists, while you feast your eyes on a bevy of luscious beauties and hear the brass beats, Slavic soul, Balkan bangers, and junk crunk hits that are taking the global underground by storm. Join the gypsy punk revolution! Dress tight and get loose. Come early and stay late. Get lucky at the lucky road where fortunes are told and made.

Album: Tatseena's Fantasy Bellydance Festival, August 2008

Album: Tribal Fest 2008
Tribal Fest in its 8th year, just a few pics of the festival, organized by Kajira and Chuck of Black Sheep Bellydance in Sebastapol California where all the darlings of the tribal fusion sort converge and others push fusion into boundaries never seen territories. Amazing abundance of creativity and energy into an American interpretation of bellydance.

Album: Bellyqueen in San Francisco 09/07
Photos of these international superstar dancers from New York City around San Francisco: Love Fest Show, their full length theater show at Danzhaus and pics from the Haight Ashbury. What an honor to be part of such a completely professional and amazingly talented group of women here for this SF production.

Album: Tribal Fest 2007
Tribal Fest is an annual bellydance festival in Sebastapol, California. Photos from Friday night and Saturday day. www.blacksheepbellydance.com

Album: Rakkasah 2007
the whole whopping 5 pics I took at Rakkasah

Album: Hate the Game Not the Player - 12/09/2006
Shabnam /Multi-Award Winner/ 2006 Utimate Soloist 2006 People's Choice 2005 Belly Dancer of the Universe /Ooh La La/ 2006 People's Choice Troupe 2005 Troupe of the Year /Unmata/ 2006 Ensemble of the Year 2004 Troupe of the Year /Una/ Multi-Award Winner 2006 Star Diva 2004 Grand Dancer / Zahara/ 2006 Queen of the Bay 2006 Star Cabaret /Mandanah/ 2006 Duet of the Year 2006 Mini Ensemble 2004 Intermediate Bellydancer /Ahava/ 2006 Queen of Raks Sharki /Zaheea/ 2001 Bellydancer of the Year

Album: Shadow Dance 11/10/06
DARKLY INTENSE HEART-POUNDING JOURNEY INTO THE SILHOUETTE OF NIGHT . . . . . FEATURING SOME OF THE MOST AMAZING DANCERS, DJs & MUSICIANS AROUND including ZOE ARIELLAH . TEMPEST UNMATA . SHAWNA RAI FREDERIQUE . CLANDESTINE MAVI . TANJA ODZAK . SOOOZHYQ DJ AMAR . DJ LAYLA . KUSH ARORA MARA ANN & DJ TRAFFIC Visuals by ZEN MYSTIC Video by JEFFE Friday November 10 Doors: 8pm Oakland Metro 201 Broadway @ 2nd in Oakland

Album: Rachel's last dance at Amira 09.27.06
Amira Cafe in the Mission is part of the history of bellydance in San Francisco, where FCBD, Ultra Gypsy, The Indigo and many, many other local dancers started, developed and took off. Its sadly closing after all these years. Pics of Rachel Brice's last Wednesday dance at Amira.

Album: The Indigo Bellydance- 09/09/06
Only a couple of pics of The Indigo at the Yard Dogs 09/09/06.

Album: Kosmos Camp 2006
Kosmos Camp is an amazing experience that everyone should have! A 3 day world dance imersion experieince you don't want to miss. See kosmoscamp.com for all the information. Thanks to Matthew Fuery for making these pics possible!

Album: Tribal Fest 2006
Tribal Fest 2006 in Sebastapol California organized by Kajira of Black Sheep Bellydance, an annual bellydance festival devoted to tribal style bellydance. A weekend full of workshops, vending, performances and lots of good times. Various pics while vending Indigo merchandise of many friends and aqaintances. There is so much to see and do, but alas here is a small glimpse. I am deeply sad that I didn't get any pics of Kajira and Black Sheep Bellydance, the oranizers of the festival, my deepest gratitude to Kajira and Chuck and all the organizers who put this on and hopefully next year I will be paparazi and get 100000000 shots of you guys. Special thanks and heartfelt gratitude to Mark Rahmani of mvgals.net for letting the bellydance community dominate mvgals! Love you so much Mark! Thank you again!

Album: Rakkasah 2006
Rakkasah is a bellydance extravaganza in Richmond California at the Richmond Civic Auditorium featuring 2 stages of bellydancers and hundreds of venders. You probably already know. These are some pics I took while working the 26th Annual festival at Ansuya's table promoting her All New Hot Combinations DVD. This by no means captures the essence of the whole festival, there is so much to see and do. It was so much fun. To reuse, please just credit gina g of mvgals.net. Thanks to Mark of mvgals.net for letting the bellydance community share in these pics.

Album: Rachel Brice, Mardi Love, Elizabeth Strong and The Toids, March 12, 2006
Pogonometric Revue 2006, Rachel Brice, Mardi Love and Elizabeth Strong with The Toids, Brass Managerie, the Inkwell Rhythm Makers and special appearance by Mira Betz at Cell Space. This also served as the cd release party for the Toid's new cd, "Unblocked Ears" and was the first time that RB is home in SF to do a show, wonderful, special night!!! Thanks to the San Francisco Late Night Coalition,Opel Productions, all the volunteers, and you for coming, and of course, Mark of mvgals.net for letting these pics be hosted on his site. Pics by Gina Grandi. gina@mvgals.net

Album: Suhaila's monthly at Monteros 02/05/06
Suhaila has a lovely show with her dancers the last Sunday of every month. Pics of her lovely daughter Isabella, and members of the Suhaila school of dance. www.suhaila.com

Album: Bellydance Superstars in San Rafael, 02/03/2006
Bellydance Superstars, directed by Jillina came to the San Rafael Civic Auditorium to a nearly sold out crowd of 1850 people! Some pics of the meet and greet after the show. Thanks to Mark of Mvgals.net for letting me use his camera and also for posting these pics here.

Album: Frederique at the Hookhadome Fundraiser
The Hookadome is a wonderful place at Burning Man. This fundraiser on Nov. 19th featured Bellydancer Frederique. I also danced thanks to Summer. These pics are just really of Fred, but the line up included: Dance to The Tasty Beats D o w n t e m p o / C h i l l Janaka Selekta (dhamaal) Process Rebel (hypnomadic) Rhythmystic (beatstream.net) QuasiPseudo (hookahdome) Immovable Object (house de kris) Funkminsta Fuller (mopimp) Chloro-DJinn (honey spot) DJ Fitz (junkie chemists) DJ Chris V (ruckuslab sound) Chris Dadzitis (brass tax) DJ Nibbles (hookahdome) Cpt. Fuzzy Pants (hookahdome) D a n c e / U p t e m p o Wonderufl time.

Album: Suhaila Christmas Party at Monteros
Suhaila's annual holiday party at Monteros, where dancers from Suhaila dance company, Bal Anat and students from the Suhaila School of Dance perform and share in the holiday season. Also special guest Paulette Rees-Denis from Portland, Oregan, director of the Gypsy Caravan - Portland, Oregon's acclaimed contemporary tribal bellydance troupe. It was a really fun event, with so much love and support. Loved it. Pics by Gina using Erica's camera. Thanks Erica!

Album: Tatseena Bellydance Festival
Tatseena & The Good Vibrations present the BELLY DANCE FANTASY FESTIVAL October 8th & 9th, 2005. This was a great festival!! Included tribal and caberet. I wish more people went to it, because the days were full of wonderful dancers including Fat Chance Bellydance, Black Sheet, Nana, Malia and Phillipe, and so many more. Tatseena put so much love into the festival. I was so happy to go. I sat and vended Tuareg jewlery and sold tickets to the Niger benefit show with Palinor love warrier and Nora. Pics by Gina G. Thanks to Mark of mvgals.net for making this possible. Next one is July 29th & 30th, 2006.

Album: Niger Benefit Show
The Fulani, Tuareg and Wodaabe peoples, among others, may lose their nomadic way of life in 2005, as a result of severe drought and locust infestation. A small donation could make the difference between a free, nomadic life, and poverty in the slums for those who survive. Don't wait until it's too late. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Flash Appeal for Niger states that "3.6 million of Niger's 12 million inhabitants are directly affected by this food crisis. 800,000 children under-five are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 who are currently showing signs of severe malnutrition." Further reading on the web: Niger's children continue dying Hunger In Niger 'set to worsen' Drought diary V: Avoiding disaster in Mali Learn About: Fulani | Tuareg | Wodaabe

Album: Tribal Quest North West, 2005
TRIBAL QUEST NORTH WEST in Portland Oregan with days filled of fun, workshops, performances, shopping, hanging, bonding and much more. This is a must attend event with some of the finest names in the Tribal bellydance scene in North America. I was so happy to be able to capture some of the events, but not all. This was all made possible with the leadership of Paulette of Gypsy Carvan who spent a whole year organizing the festival. I already look forward to next year!

Album: Tribal Fest, Sat 05.14.2005
Tribal Fest 2005, in Sebastopol, Nor Cal with many bellydancers of the tribal sort. A weekend festival full of wonderful dancers, costumes, venders and much more. These pics don't even really capture the essence of the festival in whole, just some pics I was able to capture in the short time I had. Dancers in clude Ultra Gypsy, Rachel Brice, Black Sheep Bellydance, Bastet, Atash Maya, Urban Tribal Dancers, Kami Liddle, Kattie Kay & Danger Sassy Pants and other wonderful ladies. Luckily, I was able to capture *some* of those most dear to my heart. Pics by Gina G, please contact to republish gina@mvgals.net and ***please credit mvgals.net.*** VERY SPECIAL thanks to Mark of mvgals.net for making this possible!! THANKS!