History on Belly Dancing
What is Belly dancing? We see bits of it on the television every day, whether it is a music video, a commercial, a new method of burning fat, or in a movie. So, what is this dance where you move your hips at different speeds? Where did it come from? I have always wondered what it was because it looked so fun. It is a dance where you can be creative with it and make it your own. Here is a brief look at the history of this popular dance craze that is sweeping the world.
The history of belly dancing began in Ancient Egypt around 5000 BC, but instead of belly dancing it was called Raks Sharki evidence has shown tomb paintings showing female dancers and musicians. The first was found in the tomb of Neb Amon it was uncovered at Thebes. However, the aspects of dance back then were for celebration and some entertainment. Also, their dance was related to the worship of the fertility goddess like Hathor in Egypt. She was a famous goddess of Ancient Egypt known as “the Great One of Many Names”. This dance would be attached to fertility or sometimes performed during childbirth. In addition, to this the way the dancers would move their hips in circles, swaying and shaking of the body like the pictures of The Banquet that was in the tomb of Netumen from 1400BC it showed the development of choreography and music in Egyptian culture. I think that Egypt kind of set the grounds for belly dancing even though many people do not know where belly dancing originated from but, have many ideas. Today, Egypt thought to be the home of belly dancing still, but their two main dance styles are Raqs Baladi and Raqs Sharqi. The oriental dance has a contained or internal feeling kind of compared to other styles.
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...fined. So, they gave the dance nicknames like Hootchy-Kootchy or Hoochee-Coochie even the shimmy and shake. Nevertheless, using traditional Turkish and Egyptian movements, American Cabaret or American Restaurant belly dancing which has developed its own characteristic style, using props and encouraging audience interaction. As a result, many forms of the Tribal Fusion had developed incorporating elements from other dance and music styles including flamenco, ballet, burlesque, hula hoop and even hip hop Gothic Belly Dance which is a style that incorporates elements from Goth subculture.
Works Cited
• http://www.carolinebellydancer.co.uk/history_culture_bellydance.htm
• http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/hathor.html
• http://www.ketisharif.com/article-healthcourse.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_dance#Social_context_of_belly_dance_in_the_Middle_East
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Dancing skyrocketed during the 1920s. Many styles of dance that were created before the era did not become popular until the 1920s. For example, the Charleston did not swept the world until after the moves appeared in “Running Wild”, a show on Broadway. The Charleston dance was a fast paced dance that went with the song “The Charleston” by James P. Johnson. Many dance clubs banned the Charleston because the dance was unsuitable for the youth to be dancing. Also new dance styles were being created, for example, the Foxtrot. The Foxtrot was one of cherished dances during the era. The Foxtrot is a partner dance and many disapproved of how close the partners were to each other while dancing, often cheek-to-cheek.
In this Chapter, I explore a contemporary venue for belly dance in America, the Arizona Renaissance Festival. I examine how belly dance functions at the festival and how the festival uses the past as an exotic entity. The Arizona Renaissance Festival creates a fantasy culture for entertainment and reinforces America’s ties to a European heritage. Contemporary representations of belly dance are examined, illustrating how this multifaceted dance simultaneously connects to and denies its Orientalist roots in America. I also examine how images of belly dance from the nineteenth century impact contemporary dance through costume inspiration. Due to the numerous styles of belly dance in America today, I focus on only two different forms of belly dance, American tribal style belly dance or as it referred to ATS and Egyptian cabaret.
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A leader would sing while surrounded by a circle of. dancers who would sing back in reply (“The History”1). For century’s Irish dancing had been a peasant dance done in the villages to celebrate community gatherings and family events. Until the seventeenth century, when Queen Elizabeth I received a letter from Sir Henry Sydney describing the beautiful dance he saw (“The History”1). The Queen invited dancers to perform to her court. This created a new drive for people to start dancing, and in the early eighteenth century formed the Irish dancing we know
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All around the world, there are thousands of cultures. Although they are different, every culture partakes in dance. Dancing is something known worldwide. Every culture has traditional cultural dancing they partake in. Mexico has many cultural dances. La danza del venado is one traditional dance from Northern Mexico. La danza del venado, is known as the deer dance.
This dance they get into nature by way of rhythm and it can make your body
Hip hop dance first originated in the 1960's and the 1970's one of the main birthplaces of hip hop was in one of New York City's poorest ghetto quarters the South Bronx. Hip hop dancing started with DJs coming into the streets with huge speakers kicking off what is now known as block parties. A man, who is known as the father of hip hop, "DJ Kool Herc" Would remix songs by making longer instrumental breaks between verses as long as he pleased by repeating the same breaks on a turn table this allowed more time for the street dancers or "B-boys" which stood for "Break-Boys" to show off their dancing skill. The hip hop moves combined Complex rhythms and a down-to-earth movement style. Most of these B-Boys dancing was acrobatic, or what kid no-a-days call Breakdancing but true "Break dancing" is completed how it was in the 1960s with insanely long instrumental breaks and incredible dancers battling it out with both footwork moves and acrobatic moves.
The Folklorico group presentation I was honored to observed was the “Grupo Folklorico Juventud” from North Salinas High School. I decided to attend to this presentation because I use to be part of this Folklorico group. I also enjoy watching the dances for the reason that I believe they are beyond beautiful. It is amazing how a simple dance could transmit so much information while representing a region from Mexico. From my observation experienced, I noticed every region has different movements and customs for a reason. While observing the presentation I noticed most women used long skirts to create different shapes. They usually create the eight shape, half a circle or an entire circle which is created when the dancer does an entire spin while holding and moving their skirt. The skirt is also moved in different levels, such as high, medium, and low. The two levels that are used in most of the dances is the high and the medium level. While dancing the men and women usually do the same steps and movements. All the dances include “zapateados” which are known as foot dances or stomps. The “zapateados” are usually done with different parts of the feet such as the toe, heel and the sole of the feet. The dances include “zapateados” with different sections of the feet because every part creates a different sound. Most of the dances also include jumps and turns. It is extremely important for the
I recently tried to see a live belly dance at Aladdin Mediterranean Restaurant in West Reading. Growing up, I always thought about belly dancing as the stereotypical Eyptian woman dancing sexually in front of a group of men. Even in class when I first found out that we were going to learn about Egypt, one thing came to mind, and that was belly dancing. I was surprised by the fact that belly dancing is not anything like what I thought it was. It was quite different and astonishing of the differences there was between the real thing and what I thought it was. One of the things that really got to me is that in the western hemisphere, we call all of Egyptian dances as belly dancing, when in reality, there are multiple types of dances. This is
The lights lifted and the music came on, revealing and moving two dancers, both dressed in native Indian clothing. Their pants were loose around the legs and tight around the ankles and the dancers wore headpieces that draped down their back. This dance can be recognized immediately as the style of Bollywood. “Bollywood” is a popular term that describes the Hindi language film industry located in Mumbai, India. The unique features of popular Hindi cinema include song and dance, melodrama, and emphasis on stars and spectacle. Bollywood has become a type of abbreviation used to describe this certain industry. Bollywood dance is identified as the dances that are performed and seen in the films. Through these films, Bollywood dance has become popular and recognizable all over the world. What are the origins of this popular dance and what is the controversy surrounding it? Is it the face of Indian dance? It seems as if it is.
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Dance is an ancient human practice, however the earliest record of human dance remains a mystery. By
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