Resources

There are many Fat Chance Belly Dance (FCBD) resources available on Youtube. Search for terms such as “American Tribal Style”, “Fat Chance Belly Dance” and “FCBD OR ATS”. Additional searches can be performed through search engines such as Google and Bing. The following resources are beneficial for your research.

Books

The Tribal Bible, Exploring The Phenomenon That is American Tribal Style Belly Dance by Kajira Djoumahna.
This resource is for the dance style known as American Tribal Style Belly Dance. In this text the history, development, costuming descriptions and  movement breakdowns are explored.

Fat Chance Belly Dance Style Classic Vol. 1

This book provides detailed instruction on the basic slow and fast movement in the American Tribal Style vocabulary.

A Belly Dance Companion: Your Essential Guide to Belly Dance

This book is a beginners guide to Belly Dance and provides answers on how to choose a teacher and how to become a professional belly dancer.

DVDs

FCBD, INC. Tribal Basics Vol.1 Dance Fundamentals

This DVD provides drills and breakdowns on the slow movements; the figure 8 Taxeem, ribcage and torso isolations, bodywaves, bellyrolls, and arms movements. The fast movements; the basic shimmy, Egyptian, Arabic, Pivot bump and Choo-choo.

ATS Drill Companion Volume 4 – The Egyptian Family – Belly Dance Instructional – American Tribal Style

Articles

Note: Some of these articles are restricted, but the abstracts are available to be viewed.

Vermeyden, A., (2017). The popularization of belly dance in Toronto, Canada (1950-1990): Hybridization and uneven exchange [Thesis, University of Guelph] http://hdl.handle.net/10214/10403

Sellers-Young, B., (2016). San Francisco and American Tribal Style. In B. Sellers-Young (Ed.), Belly Dance, Pilgrimage and Identity (pp. 65-90). Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94954-0_4