“Whenever a little girl ran to the dancers in the middle of the room and started dancing, the faces of the older women lit up, they laughed loudly, for life had taken on a new rhythm, a rhythm that was before us and would continue after we had gone…Yet when an old woman got up to dance, suddenly, something that was there could not be expressed in words – a gift, a woman’s prayer filled the room, borne by the subtle, nearly wise movements of one who stood far ahead of us in the long chain of women.”
– Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi from Grandmother’s Secrets
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Bowdoin belly dance 2009
