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 have the tools [...]
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 [...]
7 Reasons to Pursue Salimpour Certification
Today, belly dance certification is everywhere. But when Suhaila began her program back in the 1990s, certification was a radical and controversial idea. [...]
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 to welcome students from diverse backgrounds [...]
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, teaching, and understanding around the world. [...]
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 have popped up [...]
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 first started teaching [...]
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 verge of an [...]
Moving with Grace: A New New Home
For an area of the United States known for its creativity, innovation, and unique creative community, the San Francisco Bay Area has become [...]
Suhaila Solo: The Art of the Nightclub Show
In our previous explorations of Suhaila Salimpour’s performance video catalog—"Banat Iskandaria," "Pharaonic Suite," 1991 BC, and Unveiled—we have followed the development of her choreographic [...]