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Bridget Jordan is a senior in the first graduating class at
Bellevue International High School in Bellevue Washington.
She chose to study bellydance as her senior project.She
began her first bellydance class with me in February of 97.
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before her senior project began. She just knew that what-
ever the subject was it had to be something fun! She made
a list of things that interested her: sewing, photography,
natural disasters, and dance. She decided against the subject
of natural disasters because the likelihood of experiencing
one up close for study in the next three months seemed a
little unpredictable. So she moved to the idea of dance. She
thought an ethnic dance would be nice because it would
deal with culture and history. She went to 5 libraries and
looked up ethnic dance, thinking African, Irish or Fla-
menco might be nice. What she found was an over-
whelming number of books on the subject of bellydance
compared to any other ethnic dance form. There were
plenty of pictures of beautiful costumes that appealed to
her creative sewing interests, so she thought, "well
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The senior project requirements were to pick a subject,
make an outline of proposed goals and complete them
within a three month period. Each student needed to log
at least 70 hours of practical research in their chosen
fields, as well as create a portfolio, a display, and a
12-page research paper. Before graduation she was to
present her work and deliver a 12 minute speech to a
panel of three judges qualified in the field of study.
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