If you had to choose one - only one - belly dance prop to dance with for the rest of your life, what would it be? My psychic superpowers tell me a significant number of you would pick a veil. And out of those, the vast majority would go with the rectangular or half-circle piece of artfully coloured silk (although some are insane enough to prefer fan veils or Isis wings). From now on, when I say “veil” I’m referring specifically to a large piece of fabric not attached to a fr

Happy New Year, my loyal readers! As the whirlwind of holiday gatherings, get-togethers and parties settles down, I'd like to take this opportunity to talk to you about something important. New Year’s resolutions. Wait, did I just see a blood vessel pop in your eyeball? If you thought this will be another one of those “new year, new goals, new you” kind of posts, well…Ah, who am I kidding?! You’d be wrong to assume your favorite auntie has nothing better to talk about th

Have you ever asked ChatGPT a question you know the answer to and then got your knickers in a knot over how unrefined and flaky AI’s answer turned out to be? Yeah, me neither, why would I do such a thing? But then I get left unsupervised and things happen.. Today I asked the AI chatbot a burning question I hear often from people who are either uninformed on the subject or genuinely looking for reassurance: Do I have to expose my belly to belly dance? Here is the answe