Congratulations to our scholarship recipients!
We're excited to announce the recipients of our fall 2020 scholarship! Yes, we're awarding more than one person, because your [...]
Salimpour School Summer Contest 2020!
Summer Contest 2020! This years's theme: My Home Studio In 2018, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Bal Anat. In [...]
The Best Free Resources from the Salimpour School
The Salimpour School offers a broad collection of free resources, available to anyone! We want to make sure that you [...]
5 Ways to Earn Salimpour School CECs At Home
We’ve heard from many of you that you worried about earning the continuing education credits (CECs) to keep your certifications current. With the novel coronavirus disrupting many planned in-person workshops [...]
7 Reasons to Pursue Salimpour Certification
Today, belly dance certification is everywhere. But when Suhaila began her program back in the 1990s, certification [...]
Why the Salimpour School Welcomes All Bodies: Our Inclusion Policy
Dance is a celebration of personal expression, freedom, and connection with others. The Salimpour School is proud [...]
5 Myths About Jamila Salimpour and Her Belly Dance Format
Of course, we're a little biased, but we think that Jamila Salimpour's format revolutionized belly dance practice, [...]
Meet the Salimpour Performance Collectives!
Building Community Through Shared Goals As the Salimpour School has grown and expanded over the years, little enclaves of students [...]
Summer Contest 2019: 70 Seconds for 70 Years of Salimpour
The Salimpour School is celebrating 70 years of sharing the art of belly dance with the world. When Jamila Salimpour [...]
Sheherezade: Storytelling For Wider Audiences
In the Beginning… of the 2000s Belly Dance Boom In 2003, belly dance in the United States was on the [...]