In this project, I am using bellydance workout DVDs to examine the ways in which the instructors use the mediated dance space to access a particular archive of feelings using guided bodily performances. I am also investigating the ways in which a movement based community is constituted through a mediated, imagined experience. Finally, I am investigating the role of psychic trauma as a necessary component to reading that community, particularly in a post-9/11 moment, where the trauma overtly described is the Western angst over the denigration of the female body, and the trauma hidden is liberal ambivalence about Oriental Other. I am not making the argument that bellydance DVDs are a new post-9/11 product instead, I'm arguing that their valence, and therefore the significance of their use, has shifted, and that critiquing that shift is a way to gain access to some of the contradictions inherent in the particular socio-historical moment in which we live. Further, I am arguing that the performers shown in these DVDs are engaged in an embodied conversation about citizenship -- a conversation ongoing since the 1970s. This conversation is dependent on the discursive and material erasure of the Othered body from the performance spance.