Sunday, May 25, 2008

Tribal Bellydance in Art

I discovered the following lovely drawing on the blog of Portuguese illustrator Joao Lemos. It features a sequential art/comic book format line drawing of some tribal bellydancers (judging by the costuming and coordinated movements at least, but you never know) balancing swords in the lower panel and a dancer in the upper panel who, I think, is working with a veil. On close inspection, one of the dancers in the lower panel is also playing zils! Yay for beautiful representations of bellydance in the graphic arts!

You can see more of Joao's work by visiting his blog.

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