When performing in the West Coast nightclubs, Jamila Salimpour worked with many professional belly dancers from Morocco who incorporated traditional Moroccan dance movements in their performances that they further stylized and expanded for the cabaret stage.  Using what she observed and learned from these peers as well as her own book and video research, Jamila choreographed a Moroccan dance for Bal Anat.  

The Moroccan dance was one of Suhaila’s favorite dances as a young child.  When Suhaila revived Bal Anat and created new choreography, she used her mother’s research as well as what she had learned and observed from adapting the traditional dance for stage.