CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Each time she paints a pregnant belly, Xiomara Babilonia approaches her naked canvas with care, its warm curves gently rolling beneath her brush like a placid ocean teeming with ...

Karen Bradford has danced in some form or another. Since age 16, Karen Bradford has danced in some form or another. But it wasn’t until college that she discovered belly dancing. After studying with a ...

For Ansuya Rathor, there was no questioning whether belly dancing would be a part of her life. Her mother, Jenaeni Rathor, was a blonde, blue-eyed belly dancer in the 1960s and '70s — an anomaly that ...