Versions of the origin of belly dancing are numerous, andThe very name of it is conditional. According to one version, such appealing and erotic movements of the wife and concubine in the harem tried to attract attention and favor of the Sultan. According to another version, it was performed on holidays dedicated to the birth of children, or was performed by women of the tribe next to the woman in childbirth, in their opinion, helping in childbirth. According to the third version, the dance was a means of strengthening the abdomen, hips and back of young women giving birth, because in the Arab countries the girl could be given out, no matter how wild it sounds to us, from the age of 9. As for the country of origin of dance, it is also impossible to call it definitely. According to the most widespread version, it was Egypt, but after the adoption of Islam in this country, belly dancing was considered indecent. ? Calling themselves and picking up all the new interesting features of different peoples, thanks to the nomadic gypsies (who also introduced a national flavor), in the East the belly dance smoothly migrated to the West. Here he acquired the features of a show, a performance that amazes with its brilliance and frank sexuality. Most of all contributed to the popularization of Hollywood dance, but he also introduced distortion into the dance, shifting accents only to entertainment. In the middle of the 20th century the Hollywood image of the dance was corrected by oriental professional dancers and now exists in this form.
Conventional name, you can determine whensee the dance itself: it includes virtually all body movement, not just the stomach. Generally, belly dancing has many styles, both on national lines: Arabic, Turkish, Lebanese, etc., as well as on the specifics: the dance of the Pharaohs, Said (cane dance), dance with a fan - the diversity of the dance is hard to describe in one article. And, as a rule, one or other dancing school teaches only one of the areas of dance. Another name for belly dance - a distorted translation of the Arabic word beledi (home country), which stressed the national origin of the dance.
Mysterious East, seeking to hide the femalethe body of the robes, welcoming silence, probably, and defined such emotional dance, because in it, and not in words, a woman can express all her overwhelming feelings of dance movements to talk about their inner world. It is in the East know how to chant the beauty of the female body, and not to impose the canons of beauty as in the West. And no wonder that we, who live at the intersection of these two worlds, belly dance touches some chord of the soul. A responds to it, and the soul and the body, how? Let's see.
The basic movements of belly dance: shock, vibration, wave - only basis, each woman, they look different and, in addition, belly dance choreography is not limited to the strict rules, there is no mandatory sequence of steps. On the contrary, it encouraged creativity. After your dance - it is your unique story of the senses. And creativity - means self-realization and self-knowledge. The sense of their uniqueness allows you to accept and love your body for what it is, and to get rid of complexes. Mastering the elements of dance, alternating stress and relaxation leads to liberation movements, and this leads to inner freedom. The ability to relax in our dynamic and stressful age - a very useful skill, it allows you to keep nerve cells and not to react to stress. Belly dance gives women confidence. Good posture and plasticity of movements, acquired in the course of employment, emphasize the femininity and grace, regardless of age and build.
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