# Can Anyone Tell Me Who This Bellydancer Is?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 13, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925 "2010-04-13T04:14:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/1 "2010-04-13T04:14:26Z")
Time once again for me to ask:
[Who](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse1-1.jpg)
[is](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse2.jpg)
[this](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse3-1.jpg)
[bellydancer?](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse4-1.jpg)
I really, really want to know. She is so cool.
Thanks, brujaja.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/2 "2010-04-13T04:15:54Z")
> [@brujaja](#):
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> Time once again for me to ask:
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> [Who](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse1-1.jpg)
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> [is](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse2.jpg)
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> [this](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse3-1.jpg)
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> [bellydancer?](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse4-1.jpg)
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> I really, really want to know. She is so cool.
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> Thanks, brujaja.
Someone I want to eff with ever fibre of my being…?
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/3 "2010-04-13T04:25:51Z")
Well, I can definitely relate to that. And I’m a straight chick!
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/4 "2010-04-13T04:33:57Z")
I bet Jesse James has done her. 😉
Well, maybe not. She’s not covered in tats.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/5 "2010-04-13T04:49:37Z")
If this is the same woman, her name is [Sonia Ochoa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNigx3_sw5A&feature=PlayList&p=2D4414F7D871D776&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2).
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/6 "2010-04-13T04:52:24Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> If this is the same woman, her name is [Sonia Ochoa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNigx3_sw5A&feature=PlayList&p=2D4414F7D871D776&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2).
Wait… wait…
Okay. I’m good now.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/7 "2010-04-13T05:24:45Z")
Thanks, **Little Nemo,** but that’s not her. She has long, straight reddish hair, and a very distinctive face. Very exotic; part Middle-Eastern and part something else, I think. For some reason I’m thinking German or French. I wish I knew someplace to post the whole video I have. Here are my only clues:
The video, originally on YouTube, was titled, _ **Belly Danse,** _ with an “s.” Actually, there were two. Both were put up, removed for copyright violation, posted again, removed again.
NEWSFLASH: on checking my site, I discovered the vid back up again. [Here it is!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5LZ1gcwAU)
I have written to the poster at YouTube – no response.
Honestly, I’d be happy even knowing who did the music!
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/8 "2010-04-13T05:47:59Z")
Could it be [Joanne Camilleri](http://www.vivacestudios.ca/meet.html)?
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/9 "2010-04-13T05:53:50Z")
I’ll be in my bunk.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/10 "2010-04-13T05:59:33Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Could it be [Joanne Camilleri](http://www.vivacestudios.ca/meet.html)?
Here’s [another picture](http://www.vivacestudio.com/camilleri.html) of her. If you imagine that video was made about 15 years ago, I think I’m right.
She’s based in Toronto.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/11 "2010-04-13T06:02:24Z")
**GuanoLad:** Wow, she is lovely, but that’s not her either, alas. The video on YouTube is, I feel certain, undoubtedly fairly recent. The kind of costuming she wears (particularly in the other video, which I don’t think is still up) was unheard of, in fact would have been shocking, even ten years ago. I’ll see if I can get a still.
I’m beginning to suspect that perhaps she only dances for… _special_ audiences.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/12 "2010-04-13T06:10:21Z")
She looks like my ex-gf, M, but I know that M’s black skirt doesn’t have all those gold beaded things on it.
If y’all have never dated a belly dancer, yer missing out. I used to be the driver/escort for M and her friend K when they would do special private shows. It was kind of weird trying to sit off in a corner and still be noticeable enough to deter shenanigans from the drunk/high rich guys who hired them, but the end of the night always made those couple of hours worth it. 😉
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/13 "2010-04-13T06:34:22Z")
Okay, here’s some stills from the other film. It isn’t really obvious here, but her skirt is almost completely transparent. This and other costume features, along with the apparent production values, place this vid I think in recent years.
[Linky](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse9.jpg)[and linky.](http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/bellydanse10.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/14 "2010-04-13T06:38:58Z")
Dude, those pics look like they were printed with a dot matrix printer back in 1990. And they are of her back, which prolly looks great when it isn’t all squared off, but we aren’t likely gonna find other pictures of her ass to compare with.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/15 "2010-04-13T09:26:52Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> I’ll be in my bunk.
Come on, she’s not that…oh. OH. Wait, how does she…
I’ll be in mah bunk.
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### Author:  [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/16 "2010-04-13T10:35:18Z")
**Snowboarder Bo:** Right you are. I had to download the vid from YouTube with my special tool, probably convert the format, play it with VLC, pick a parsec frame of a very wiggly butt, press “print screen,” open MS Paint, paste it into a bitmap, convert that to jpeg, post it on photobucket, and link it back here. _Of course_ it’s pixelated. Sorry.
I just went all over the place (figuratively) searching for the second video online, no dice. But it’s smokin.
I think she’s possibly Russian; in the course of my search, I saw a fuzzy, poorly-focused-from-far-away video of an all-Russian bellydance competition that looked like maybe the same girl.
\ If I don’t know who she is, how can I ever get her DNA & transfer my consciousness into a clone?
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/17 "2010-04-13T10:48:19Z")
[Let’s not leave the ladies out of the fun.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c29HV9aFCaM)
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/18 "2010-04-13T11:39:52Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#):
>
> [Let’s not leave the ladies out of the fun.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c29HV9aFCaM)
**Brujaja** is a lady. So I don’t think we were.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/19 "2010-05-03T16:58:11Z")
This striking young lady has a memorable belly-dancing scene in the movie _Charlie Wilson’s War_ - definitely worth a look:
> **[Tracy Phillips | Actress, Additional Crew](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680855/)**
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> Known for: 500 Days of Summer, Hell Ride, Water for Elephants
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-tell-me-who-this-bellydancer-is/535925/20 "2010-05-04T00:01:21Z")
Why not email the address on youtube: @&!M.Mbrk@yahoo
worth a shot.
best wishes,
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