maybe...?"

by far the most helpful resource was the internet. She read

an interview with Carolena Nericcio on American Tribal

style, an article about the "World's Oldest Dance" by Karol

She had a lot of vague misconceptions about what

bellydance was at first. She asked what her classmates

thought of bellydance as a subject? To her surprise two of

the girls had taken bellydance and loved it! They encour-

aged Bridget to go for it. So did her class advisor.

She started to look for a class that fit her schedule and

found my two-hour Tuesday night class. With commend-

able support from her class, her advisor and her Mother,

who drove her the long distance across town during rush

hour traffic, Bridget became a diligent student. She was

nervous about being the youngest student in class but

coincidentally another teen also started the same night – that

helped! Then she discovered how everyone welcomed her

and was interested in her class project. "Why didn't I have

an opportunity to do a class project like this in school?"

was a comment heard many times. Sara Teller and Maria

Lafrance helped mentor her in class and spent some time

outside of class helping her with costumes and music.

Some of the books she found were: The Serena Technique

by Serena, The Source by Omar Baptiste, The Compleat

Bellydancer by Marta Schill and Julia Russo, Total Educa-

tion in Ethnic Dance by Le Meri, articles by dancers

Morocco and Ibrahim Farrah. According to Bridget though,