Fremont Fair 06: Belly Dancers

150 belly dancers performing seven different dances. Saturday, June 17, 2006

Dancers mass for navel maneuvers

By D. PARVAZ
P-I REPORTER

The belly is an amazingly communicative body part.

Etched with a six-pack, it embodies strength. In women, it's an unrelenting icon of fertility.

It's also the focal point of the belly dance, that swaying, swishing Middle Eastern import, which has been part of the Fremont Fair since the event began 35 years ago.

"We had maybe five people, but it got bigger and bigger, especially in the last three or four years," said Billion Belly March organizer Delilah Flynn. "This year we have close to 150." Read More