BELLY DANCE
Belly dance is a Western name for "solo, improvised dances based on torso articulation originating from the Middle East, especially raqs sharqi. It's Original name is Arabic or Oriental Dance.
Belly dance takes many different forms depending on the country and region, both in costume and dance style, and new styles have evolved in the West as its popularity has spread globally.
- Raqs sharqi, is the style more familiar to Westerners, performed in restaurants and cabarets around the world. It is more commonly performed by female dancers but is also sometimes danced by men. It is a solo improvisational dance, although students often perform choreographed dances in a group.
- Raqs baladi, is the folkloric style, danced socially by men and women of all ages in some Middle Eastern countries, usually at festive occasions such as weddings. However, this naming is used synonymously in Egypt with Raqs sharqi as a generic term for "belly dancing".
Most important movements
- Shimmies, shivers and vibrations.- continuous movements of the hips or ribcage
- Fluid movements.- sinuous movements in which the body is in continuous motion, which may be used to interpret melodic lines and lyrical sections in the music
- Percussive movements.- most commonly of the hips, which can be used to punctuate the music or accent a beat.
I've been practicing this dance for around 3 years and in my opinión y the best dance because you conect all your body, your senses with each part of it.
Supposedly it started in the West side. It's a dance that's conected with the earth. There are a lot of particulary movements that are the ones that conect your soul and body with different parts in nature and the most common use of this dance is for fertility.
Most of the people think that it's the dance of cabaret girls but no, that meaning was given long years after this dance appeared on a Hollywood movie.
The original or typical whay of dressing for dancing this is bye letting only de eyes, hands and feet naked.
