Belly Dance Home Page - History of Changes

Timeline in reverse order:

March 8, 1998 - added link to Kajira Djoumahna's Home Page.
February 23, 1998 - added links to Corvallis Belly Dance Performance Guild, New World Belly Dance.
February 13, 1998 - added link to the Bellydance NY page.
February 11, 1998 - deleted dead links to: 97 Wiggles of the West, several internal links at the Middle Eastern Dance Resource Guide the U.C. Berkeley Center For Middle Eastern Studies Homepage, updated links to the Neferchichi's Egypt Clip Art & Backgrounds page, The Gypsy Lore Society page, A Quick And Dirty Guide To Doumbek Rhythms page.
February 4, 1998 - http://www.bdancer.com/ established as new (and permanent) address.
October 26, 1997 - http://cie-2.uoregon.edu/bdance/ declared dead, temporary site established.
October 11, 1997 - added links to Sapphira: World Dance, and Sapphira's World.
October 10, 1997 - added links to Morocco's Meanderings page, The Neferchichi's Egypt Clip Art & Backgrounds Page, The Camel's Armpit Bellydance Site - removed dead link to New World Belly Dance Home Page (Eugene, OR, USA)
July 7, 1997 - added link to Julie Elliot's page for Wiggles of the West attendees.
July 2, 1997 - deleted links to terminally outdated Events and Wish List pages (events will be back when I've developed a better update system).
June 11, 1997 - added links to the Middle Eastern Dance Association of Western Canada, Desert Wind, Belly Dance in Ottawa-Hull, Inanna, Salome & The 7-pt. Routine, Desert Veils, The Rising Phoenix Dancers, Cost Less Belly Dance Costumes, Jeff's Custom Photography (featuring pictures of the Corvallis Belly Dance Performance Guild), The Guilded Lily, Farfesha Belly Dance.
April 7, 1997 - added links for Marjan's Home Page, The Henna Page, Habibi Belly Dancers.
April 3, 1997 - added list of predefined searches to the search page for the Belly Dance Contacts around the World, added page of USA State Abbreviations.
March 30, 1997 - updated links to The Gypsy Lore Society, American Recording Productions, Farabi, Judaica Gifts, Mandala Danse Orientale accessories page, The Theatrical Shop MED page, Isis and The Star Dancers, Rebecca Sobol's Dance and Herp pages, Ruth's Middle East Dance page, Sahnobar Dance Ensemble, Shaheena's RL Home Page - removed dead links to Wonderful Music, Aywah Bellydance Troupe, Marjan's Home Page, - added Shaheena splash page, Chandra's Dance Extravaganza.
March 27, 1997 - integrated a search engine into the Belly Dance Contacts Around The World page to increase usefulness and decrease load time.
March 16, 1997 - added page A Primer on Middle Eastern Dance Styles by Soher Azar
November 7, 1996 - added links to page Bay Area Belly Dance Home Page (San Francisco, CA, USA), Bellydance By Jamila (Boise, ID, USA).
October 30, 1996 - updated Meira's Guedra FAQ to her 10/29/96 revision (more details / chant info updated).
October 27, 1996 - added link to the Oasis (Band from New Berlin, WI), added link to the New World Belly Dance Home Page (Eugene, OR, USA)
October 22, 1996 - added article "The Zar Revisited" by Me'ira
September 9, 1996 - added link to Sahnobar Dance Ensemble Home page, updated quotes page (thanks Sherry).
August 8, 1996 - added documents "Middle Eastern Dance: Experience Something Different" & Belly Dance Music & Video Recommendations
July 25, 1996 - added link to Suhaila Salimpour's Home Page.
July 24, 1996 - added links to the Turkish Names page and the Isis and the Star Dancers homepage.
July 22, 1996 - Updated the Ore/Wa Calendar to the April 96 version.
July 21, 1996 - minor update to events page, added link to clipart now on the Dancer's Archive
June 13, 1996 - added links to A Quick And Dirty Guide To Doumbek Rhythms and American Recording Productions.
May 15, 1996 - deleted broken link to Gypsy Caravan (unknown if more current URL exists) - fixed broken shortcut links to interior pages of the Middle Eastern Dance Resource Guide, added link to it's Table of Contents - added article "Defining the Dance" by Jen Al-Amira.
April 24, 1996 - added links to "Best Belly Dance Links" (Kapfer's), CNN: culture of the Nubian people in Egypt, Herp Link, other online music stores, International Dance Discovery, The Theatrical Shop, Aywah Bellydance Troupe, Ashana - updated link for Fat Chance Belly Dance (was http://www.crl.com/~pal/fcbdhome.htm) & JJ's Place.
April 20, 1996 - added "Belly Dance Basics Class Outline" by Sherezzah
April 17, 1996 - updated "Events & Fliers" page - on index page changed name of "Middle Eastern Dance in Tucson, AZ" to "Middle Eastern Dance Resource Guide" (massively revised & improved format).
April 10, 1996 - updated "Events & Fliers" page.
April 5, 1996 - update of index page, temporarily removed "Black Page/Protest" info, added links to Southeast Middle Eastern Dance (by Andre), Ruth's Middle East Dance page (Personal Bio), Aleena's Belly Dance Information (Art, Seminars, Costumes), Melbourne Belly Dance Homepage (Events & Links), Judaica Gifts (Nice Amulets per Meira - Not Belly Dance Specific), Belly Dancer of the Year Pageant site, and Middle Easter Dance/Dumbek Rhythms (.wav sound files & written notation) - updated link to Green Duck Designs.
March 8, 1996 - removed "Prose & Steel" sword recommendation (only personally known staff person left the business).
February 12, 1996 - updated index page.
February 9, 1996 - Turned index page Black as part of national protest against the Feb 8 signing of Telecomm/CDA legislation that turned Internet into the most heavily regulated medium in the USA ($250,000 fines & prison time for using some (vaguely defined) forms of constitutionally protected communications that are still OK for Broadcast TV, newspapers, magazines, books, and public libraries to use)
January 28, 1996 - Added page for Rabiah Banu's Intermediate Dance Class Outline - added page for A Glossary of Belly Dance Moves and Related Dance Terms.
January 3, 1996 - Added page for A Prose and Steel Dance Sword.
December 30, 1995 - Added links to Lucila's Home Page, and to the Farabi band's Home Page.
December 12, 1995 - Revised intro statement and Troupe entry format on "Belly Dance Contacts" page, with links back and forth between entries for Troupes and entries for Individuals within Troupes - added link to "Masculine Belly Dance" page from bdanceFAQ question "Do men belly dance?" - fixed some typos in "Masculine Belly Dance" page.
December 3, 1995 - per her request, changed the credit on both of Cala's articles to her newer name "Me'ira" - added "Who is Hans Bos?" page, linked off the quotes page - added page on "Masculine Belly Dance".
November 25, 1995 - updated URL for "Marjan's Home Page" - added URLs for: "Zohar", "Marin", "The Horon Turkish Folk Dance Ensemble", and "Green Duck Designs" - added page "Dance Quotes"
November 20, 1995 - updated URL for "Veil and Drum WWW Home Page"
November 1, 1995 - updated URLs for: "Jahara's Seattle Dance Page" and "Marjan's Home Page" - added URLs for: "Gypsy Caravan" and "Linda's Lair" - added pages: "Beginning Middle Eastern Dance Class Outline" and "The Guedra FAQ"
September 26, 1995 - added URL for Fat Chance Belly Dance
September 18, 1995 - added URL for The Gypsy Lore Society
September 9, 1995 - added Oregon/Washington Local Events (from MED&CA)
September 8, 1995 - added The Belly Dance FAQ
September 5, 1995 - added URL for Jahara's Seattle Dance Page
September 3, 1995 - added URL for CD connection to Home Page, and added Stefan.gif to contacts page
August 31, 1995 - added URL for Shasheena's Home Page
August 29, 1995 - added 'fliers.html' page to show upcoming events, added URLs for: Distant Caravans, Wonderful Music.
August 7, 1995 - added URLs for: New York Belly Dancer, JJ's place, and U.C. Berkeley Center For Middle Eastern Studies Homepage - added "Belly Dance contacts" page - grouped links on index page by their natures - removed all references to Stefan's AOL account (no longer active)
July 24, 1995 - Updated URL for Tucson, AZ - added URLs for: Firebird music catalog, Lark In The Morning, and Kim's list of Publications
July 11, 1995 - updated As-Sayf URL from http://www.pi.se/as-sayf/englishindex.html to http://www.ivo.se/as-sayf/englishindex.html - changed my email address from StefanUp@aol.com to dduncan@efn.org - fiddled w/ title special effect - added URLs for: Middle Eastern Percussion, Marjan's Home Page, and Rebecca Sobol's Danse Orientale Page
June 6, 1995 - Added "Veil and Drum WWW Home Page" link to main page (Thank you, Tracy!)
May 31, 1995 - Added this "Changes" page to web site - Also added "Middle Eastern Dance In Tucson, AZ" link to main page - Fixed text conversion problem in index.html & RxRhythm.html

This page updated by Stefan (bdancer@www.bdancer.com).