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Origins of Belly Dance |
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While pictorial relief provides insight into the world of dance in the early |
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civilisations of Egypt, Greece and Rome, little was written about dance before |
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the 18th century. By the time travelers had began to document Middle Eastern |
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dance, what may have originated as sacred and ritualistic dances had already |
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evolved into folk dances that had been influenced by various ethnic groups. |
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Folk dance generally refers to traditional dance originating within a nation |
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or region. Folk dance is the dance of the community, with moves that can be |
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learned by a large group of people. While thousands of folk dances evolved |
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throughout the Middle East, many focused on female isolated mevements of |
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the hips and abdomen. Two dance styles that are believed to have influenced |
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the evolution Raks Sharqi ( literally means "dance of the east" and is the same |
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dance style as "belly dance" in the West ) are the dances of the Ghawazee |
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and the dance style known as Baladi. ( Arabic meaning "my home town") |
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The Ghawazee were professional female dancers of upper Egypt that are |
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believed to have origins from India. |
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Belly dancing was originaly introduced to Egypt from India in the 10th |
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century by gypsies and then exported around the world. The Ghwazee were |
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travelers ( or as known to the Western World as gypsies ). During there travels |
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the adopted some of the local traditions including dance styles. As a result, by |
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the time they settled in Egypt their dance had been influenced by dances of |
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Turkey, North Africa, Persia, and other Middle Eastern countries. Western |
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travelers were fascinated by the dances they saw in Egypt and brought news |
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of them back to Europe. The first significant accounts of the Ghawazee were |
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during the 18th century. |
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Baladi means my country or my home town. Raqs Baladi was performed |
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in various villages throughout Egypt. The dance was originally performed in the |
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home by women to entertain each other. The dancers center of movement was |
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firmly in the hips. Arms were held casually and elbows were heavy. The dance |
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was performed with flat feet and had a heavy grounded look. |
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At the beginning of the 20th century Cairo was a cosmopolitan city with a |
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population of over 350,000 people of which over 20% were not Egyptians. Most |
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of the foreigners were there due to Cairo's importance as a commercial trading |
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hub. The Baladi style evolved with the urbanisation of the population. When the |
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rural people moved to the city they were exposed to influences from many |
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countries that resulted in changes to there dance styles. The Baladi style was |
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influenced by the West, and by dancers from Greece, Turkey, North Africa, |
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Persia ( snake arms ), India ( head slides ), other Middle Eastern countries and |
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possibly through contact with the Ghawazee evolved into a new dance form |
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that came to be known as Raks Sharqi. The new dance was a blend of styles |
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and costuming specifically for female solo dancers. People frequently refer to |
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"Raks Sharqi" as the "women's solo dance" to distinguish it from traditional |
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folk dances that are group dances. While the dance retained many of the hip |
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movements associated with Baladi, the center of movement shifted to the top |
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part of the upper torso. |
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In the West, Raks Shaqi became known as belly dance. This misnomer |
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may have evolved from a misconstruction of the term Baladi or from the French |
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contrived name "Danse du Ventre." |
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In its modern form, belly dance is sometimes refirred to as "Cabaret." This |
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generally refers to the style intended for performing in a show-business venue, |
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such as a restaurant or nightclub. The cabaret style performance costume is |
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the beaded bra, belt and skirt. This style of dance / costuming only emerged |
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after Hollywood exploited Eastern dance with Western fantasies of the East. |
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