My first blog entry ever - I've been trying to fight the winter blahs by taking classes and promoting my troupe, "The Dunyana Dance Ensemble". We've just added a gig as part of a vaudeville style variety show at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This has prompted me to research bellydance in connection with vaudeville and burlesque and it is fascinating. I want to know more about who was going to see these acts, the "low" entertainment forms, which required skill but also had a ... read more