Dancing with the veil feels holy, powerful, graceful. and…

“Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn't need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk…

— Rachel Harris

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I can't belly dance.' Yes, you can. It's in your fi--' Will you stop reading my goddamn file!”

— Jennifer Rardin

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those...…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Your inner Belly Dancer...is your inner sensuality, your highest feminity, your great esteemed self made more apparent.”

— Leandra J. Kalsy

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When I danced, I felt I was entering the temple of Art.

— Taheyya Kariokka

I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls…

— Nadia Gamel