Margaret MacLennan

Margaret started dancing in 2006 under Belinda Ferguson in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is currently studying philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she comprises the small town's one-woman belly dance scene.

While formally trained in Modern Egyptian, she has openly interpreted her training to perform with Gypsy Jazz group Mishra's Dream

E-mail: margaret@contrapublishing.com

Articles on Gilded Serpent by Margaret

3-31-10 Can a Non-Arab Dancer Really Belly Dance? by Margaret MacLennan
Belly dance is seen as an Arab art form, and has gained considerable popularity outside of that circle. But can a non-Arab belly dancer really belly dance? Should a non-Arab represent a cultural art form when she is not a part of that culture? This article is an attempt to arm a non-Arab belly dancer against the inevitable questions leveled about whether her ethnicity or cultural background should prohibit her from dancing.
3-25-14 Patient is a Bellydancer, Part 1, Irritable Bowel vs. the Dancer by Margaret Anne
Weeks later my doctor told me she had never seen it that high in anyone before. Something was very wrong.
7-31-14 Patient is a Bellydancer, Part 2:The New Normal & the Boring Reason I'll Never Stop Dancing by Margaret Anne
What was once an exercise in insanity is now how I hip drop and down walk.