Defining “Fusion” Belly Dance for My Research

When I wrote my thesis (Donna was on my graduate committee, btw), I was tasked with defining “fusion belly dance” in order to narrow the scope of the world I was exploring in my paper….Given that I was in a 2-year program, I had to use language that signaled to the specific focus of my research, and after the mass departure from the term “tribal,” I was left without an institutionalized term for the style and community that I was studying.