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Playing zils while belly dancing is fun! Learn from us in our weekly classes, a specialty workshop or in a private lesson!

How To Start Playing Zils With Belly Dance

September 4, 2023 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

Here are the basics I think every dancer should know about how to start playing zils with belly dance. I hope you find it helpful! -Jennifer

Tribe Nawaar Dance Company wearing bustled skirts, top hats and reversed corseted bodice tops, great for steampunk & halloween costumes

Recreate This Theatrical Look

September 25, 2022 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

With halloween coming up next month I began to reminisce about some of the looks we have created in the past.

How to make a belly dance costume coverup by Tribe Nawaar

Bandhini Wraps – Ideas & Tips

August 26, 2021 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

Hand dyed and embellished in the traditional bandhini style from the Rajasthan and Gujarat areas of India. Each one is a true work of art made into wearable brilliance! But, what do you do with them?

Jennifer Secrist Goran, director of Tribe Nawaar Belly Dance Company in Boulder, CO

New supplies and kits with full instructions on how to make your own belly dance bra just added. Choose cross-back ring ties or classic halter style ties for finishing your DIY coin or fabric covered bras. Adorn your one of a kind masterpiece with coins, embellishments and pendants.

Tribe Nawaar's support & modification products for belly dancers

Solving Common Belly Dance Costuming Problems

July 19, 2021 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

Look and feel your best in your costuming! Our support & modification products are solving common belly dance costuming problems. Add support & lift to choli tops, hide perspiration issues during performances & classes and help solve a myriad of other costuming issues that can crop up during shows. Be prepared, know about these great […]

Alternate choli tying instructions from Tribe Nawaar, choli shown tied with 'Clean Lines' method

Choli Tops: Alternative Tying Methods

April 18, 2020 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

Try These Alternative Tying Methods On Any Of Our Choli Tops… Clean Lines Just as the name implies this method of tying your choli will give you a clean tidy look to the back tie section! Take the ribcage tie on right side and knot it to the ribcage tie on the left as […]

Tribe Nawaar Dance Company wearing modified lace choli tops.

Lace Choli Top Modification

October 3, 2019 / Jennifer Secrist Goran

Another theatrical performance of ours used a large ship that we had built out of gator board (maybe another how to guide?). Our ship was complete with masts, ‘decaying’ sails and, of course, with creepy passengers (who would later have their souls stolen by sirens). The lace choli top modification we did for the passengers […]