This photo, by Natalee Waters, appeared in the Roanoke Times in the spring of 1999, with the following caption. If anyone happens to know the precise date on which it appeared, please e-mail Sahira so that I can credit it correctly. Thanks.
Instructor Iara Kendrick (left), who uses the name Samra, goes through some belly dancing moves recently with students Angela Kessler (center) and Michelle DeHart at the Lifestream Center in Roanoke. Belly dance is correctly called oriental dance, raks sharki, or baladi.