Belly Dance Shopping Mall !

11/26/2016

Updated and edited 10/25/18

This blog post started life as a Facebook post that got too big to handle ! I started listing my favorite small business' that serve the belly dance community and the list just grew and grew ! It feels like its time to set up a virtual shopping mall where we can find all our favorite stores in one place. I have only included business' that I have used and products that I love. My FB friends sent me lots of other recommendations, and once I have made a purchase with them, I will consider adding them here.

Check out Rebecca Wolf-Nail's murder, mystery belly dance novels. She mixes humor with the drama of the belly dance world.

Murder mystery books

Saroyan Mastercrafts - home of the best finger cymbals. From your first practice pair, to professional level zills, this web site has something for everyone.

Saroyan

Dawn Devine has a huge range of wonderful books available on Amazon. Check out the full range here:

Dawn Devine's books

Princess Farhana has a wonderful range of books and DVD, all featuring her fantastic humor: Her books are required reading for all belly dancers and her DVDs are well produced and full of tips, techniques and great practice ideas.

Princess Farhana's shop

I love Paradise Vintage's cute little mini belly dancers. I also have one of her sparklie Oum Kalthoum t-shirts! For the holidays she has some really sweet elf/belly dancer tree orniments, that would make the perfect gift for your favorite belly dancer.

Paradise Vintage

I am honored to be one of the many amazing teachers who work with the Belly Dance Business Academy to provide on line lessons and workshops for those in the Belly Dance business. Check out their full list of offerings. I am planning to offer more courses in the new year, focusing on supporting belly dance teachers, but the organization covers all kinds of topics for belly dancers. You can buy them one at a time or sign up to a monthly subscription. Some of them are even free !

Belly Dance Business Academy

There are three big on-line belly dance stores that I regularly shop, Dahlal, Miss BellyDance and BellyDance.com. Between them they cover almost all a belly dancer could desire !

Dahlal

Miss Belly Dance

Belly Dance .Com

Bold Oracle do some really pretty costuming, but personally I am totally in love with all their hair flowers. Every one of them is a tiny peice of art !

Bold Oracle

DVDs and videos ! - There are way too many to mention, but these are the ones that I have LOVED this year :

Full on with 3/4 shimmies by Mahin
Delicious Pauses by Rosa Noreen
Belly Dance Travel Steps by Autumn Ward
BellyDance Artistry by Tempest

Full on with 3/4 shimmies

Belly Dance Travel Steps

Delicious Pauses

Bellydance Artistry

For a stunningly beautiful gown with wonderful style, fit and elegance, look no further than Fearless Glamour ! Work with Saqra to pick out fabric, neckline, straps and skirt shape for your dream dress !

Fearless Glamour

Finally ! - I would like to offer you a flick through my latest book "Becoming A Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage" written with Dawn Devine, Alisha Westerfeld and Poppy Maya. Simply use the arrow to flick through a few of the 400 plus pages. Becoming a Belly Dancer is the stagecraft handbook for belly dancers and is available now on Amazon. Check out the reviews - it makes the perfect gift for the belly dancers of all styles !

Sara's Books

Want more shopping ideas ? Check out these blog posts on other pages:

Poppy Maya's Gift Guide for Belly Dancers

Belly Dance at Any Size 2016 Shopping Guide

If you like this blog, go back to my blog page and check out some others like:

Teacher Knows Best
Dealing with Difficult Students
I'm Perfect for Belly Dance (and so are you)

The History of Belly Dance - Where to Start

Why Belly Dancers need to Walk the Line

Teaching Belly Dance: Making Corrections

Being Part of the Solution

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Sara Shrapnell is a belly dance writer, teacher and performer.

She has taught more than 5,000 belly dance classes, both in the UK and US. She has closed down her classes in California and moved to Arizon, where she hopes to teach in Queen Creek and San Tan Valley once studios open up after Covid. She teaches on-line for the Belly Dance Business Academy, and offers workshops world wide. Her classes are known for their humor, detailed breakdowns and cultural context. Students who have studied with Sara have gone on to teach and perform in all styles of belly dance and many have made their living through performance or teaching.

Sara’s first book “Teaching Belly Dance” was published in 2014. Her second "Becoming a Belly Dancer: From Student to Stage", co- written with Dawn Devine, Alisha Westerfeld and Poppy Maya, is a stagecraft handbook. Both are available on Amazon.