She performed in the first Fokine "Nutcracker" and stayed with the production until she graduated from high school in 1964, returning one year for a solo in the Arabian dance.

A giant camel, a cut-out blown up from the cigarette pack, takes the stage for the Arabian dance, and the all-American red, white and blue finale is a giddy mix of flashing neon and wholesome high jinks.

His deliberate parodies of the national dances are downright silly: In the Arabian dance, a couple robs a fat pasha; in the Russian entry, the dancers fall all over each other in their folk numbers.

"You know, it has all that ch-ch-ch-ch-ch stuff in it," Mr. Stevenson, in his clipped British accent, said of the accompaniment to the Arabian dance.

We undulate our hips and use our hands expressively, curling our fingers in arabesques, which are characteristics of Indian and Arabian dance.

We did not get the ringing cell phone until the quietest part, the Arabian dance.

The Arabian dance goes to a gigolo smoking through a cigarette holder, a brilliant solo brilliantly slinked through by Paulo Kadow.

In a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West ("The Night of the Grand Emir"), she plays an assassin who performs an exotic Arabian dance.

Other ethnic elements include a lion dance, a hula and Mongolian singing that turned out to be in the same key as Tchaikovsky's Arabian dance.