On certain mornings at the Northborough Senior Center, an interesting mingling of sounds echoes through the dining area. Music that’s a combination of early American hip-hop and Middle Eastern beats ...

Members of Romania's Roma -gypsy - community perform during the "Miss Piranda 2011" beauty and dance contest in Bucharest. The contestants were judged not just on their beauty, but also on their gypsy ...

Belly-dancer Gypsy Phillips is not about to tell you her real name, try as you might to find out. “Oh, I don’t even remember what it is,” she laughs, waving a toned, delicate arm but making sharp eye ...

To Bianca Boll, belly dancing is a lot more than sparkly costumes, jiggly movements and exotic music. It was 21 years ago in Albuquerque, N.M., that Boll first experienced belly dancing, and she was ...