Belly Dancing On Noah's Ark

Part 1

Did you know Noah lived in the Middle East? The Bible says his ark came to rest at the top of Mount Ararat, which is located in modern-day Turkey. How do you suppose all his passengers whiled away those 40 days and 40 nights when they were waiting for the rain to stop? Why, by dancing, of course! Some of them have agreed to put on a show for you.

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Note to Netscape users: if some of the animations on your screen quit moving, just click the "Reload" button at the top of the screen and it will restart the dancing for you.

Did You Know...?

This music is not from the Middle East at all! It was composed in the United States in the 1890's!
In the Middle East, they don't call this dance form by the name "belly dancing". Their name for it translates as "Oriental dance".

And now, on with the dance party!!!! Tie a scarf around your hips and join in!

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About The Artists

The music, Streets Of Cairo, was composed in 1895 by James Thornton, embellished and performed by Scott Montgomery Smith. This arrangement © 2000 by Scott Montgomery Smith, all rights reserved. Used here with permission.

After a lifetime of thinking she couldn't draw her way out of a paper bag (thanks to some unfortunate input by a nasty art teacher in middle school), Shira has finally let her wonderful husband convince her that maybe her doodles do deserve to see the light of day--or at least the light of your computer monitor!

Shira first started learning Middle Eastern dance in 1981. Dance has been her inspiration, her avenue to making friends in a new community after relocating, and her escape from her "day job" of being a professional Silicon Valley computer nerd.

Bill Smith, who would probably prefer not to be called Mr. Shira even though he is married to her, is a mathemagician. (Imagine someone who has a Ph.D. in mathematics with a sense of playfulness and humor about it....) He likes to pass time in restaurants waiting for his food by doodling. He used to doodle cartoons of snails to please his favorite wife (yes, there's a story behind that!), but recently she asked him to try a camel, and this is the result.

Unfortunately, Bill doesn't share his wife's passion for belly dancing, and sometimes feels like a belly dancing widower. He'd much rather cut a rug with her doing just plain old social dancing at a local club.
Photo Of Bill Smith, the artist

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These animated dancing pages are just a tiny corner of a much larger web site.

If you like belly dancing and would like to learn more about it, then please visit the home page for this web site, The Art Of Middle Eastern Dance. There you'll find costuming information, advice and how-to's, historical and cultural information, translated song lyrics, product reviews, and lots more.

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