{"id":6924,"date":"2019-03-25T21:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T04:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:27:40","slug":"womens-history-month-belly-dance-history-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2019\/03\/womens-history-month-belly-dance-history-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s History Month & Belly Dance History – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

March is Women\u2019s History Month \u2013 Part 3<\/h2>\n

Hello there!\u00a0 Today I\u2019m doing something a bit different.\u00a0 In honor of International Woman\u2019s Day, which falls in Women\u2019s History Month, I\u2019m sharing a bit of belly dance history each day over on my FaceBook page. I\u2019ve decided to put up five posts this month that round up those entries for the week.\u00a0 This is post #3 in this series.\u00a0If you haven\u2019t read them all start with the\u00a0first post<\/a>\u00a0and here’s the second post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Day 13 – Johanna and Turhan, 1960’s – Black and White Glossy Promotional Photo<\/h2>\n

One of the sources of 20th-century belly dance costume information is black and white glossies. For more than 40 years, from the 40s through to the 80s professional entertainers would supply venues with photographs to use for promotional purposes. These 8″ by 10″ photos might be sent to the press as part of a promotion, placed in signholders outside of the venue, or used as interior decor to share past stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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These photographs were as essential for a dancer\u2019s marketing and publicity then as a website is today. Black and white glossies offer the belly dance costume historian a wealth of information from eras before amateur video recording made it easy to document performances.<\/p>\n

This 1960s era black and white glossy features a dancing duo from New York, Johanna and her dance partner and husband Bill who danced “Middle Eastern Style” under the name Turhan. Johanna founded \u201cThe Oasis Ballet\u201d and the troupe performed in NYC and beyond.<\/p>\n

Johanna\u2019s daughter by her second husband, Belly Dancer Aziza Al-Tawil, wrote a detailed biography of Johanna along with lots of great photos.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/azizaaltawilsworld.blogspot.com\/\u2026\/johanna-white-was\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Johanna perform a Spanish style dance to Malaguena<\/p>\n