Russian Women and Belly Dancing: Body Work, Fun and Transformation
Journal: The Institutional Repository at DePaul University (DePaul University)
Year: 2014

The study explores how Russian women’s socio-cultural experiences can be understood through belly dancing and transformed in belly dance classes. The study findings are based on the analysis of eleven interviews with Russian women of various ages and occupations, engaged in belly dancing for an extended period of time. Drawing on belly dancing as an embodied practice within the Russian context, the findings demonstrate that initial expectations of Russian women regarding belly dancing mutated ov