
Davina - Dawn Devine A small collection of the costumes I've designed, constructed or renovated over the past 20 years.
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Davina - Dawn Devine Working on my new book "Period Impressions: Costumes of the Maghreb"

New Book Coming Soon from Ibexa PressPeriod Impressions:Costumes of the MaghrebBy Dawn Devine ~ DavinaI’m back home after two weeks in sunny San Diego, California where I was hard at work as a staffer for Comic-Con and then off to play in Mexico at the Vita Spa. ...

Hello Gang,As some of you know, I've been working on my latest book, Period Impressions: Costumes of the Maghreb 500ce - 1500ce - For Middle Eastern Belly Dancers and Musicians...

I love museums... In fact, while I was in graduate school I worked in a museum studies program, and used my education to provide excuses to visit as many museums as I can...

This spring, I worked on a lovely folkloric style ensemble for an accomplished dancer, but new performer, Sarah of Wicked Smileys. She performed with Troupe Celine twice this spring, first at Spring Rakkasah and at an Asian American cultural festival. Her ensemble is composed of four garments...

Davina - Dawn Devine
SF/BA MECDA - Summer Dancer Night
Sunday June 14, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
House of Kabobs
161 S. Sunnyvale Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408)735-8199
Belly Dance Performances - Fundraising Raffle
Time:6:00PM Sunday, June 14th
Location:House of Kabobs

The Dancing with the Stars season is almost over, and Threads Magazine has posted a fantastic interview with the designer of all those sizzling hot costumes, the Emmy Award winning Randall Christensen...

I've been recently spent some quality time working on a research project. A book I began quite some time ago, is rapidly reaching its deadline, and so I dusted it off and started looking through my notes...

Italian promotional poster - From Russia with Love - including fantastic belly dance image and Gypsy chick fight. Which got me wondering - what does the English language version look like? So I looked around and found the US version... Check out the differences in what the belly dancer is wearing...










