Belly Dance Style Part III
Goddess Belly Dance
This is the new trend of modern teen girls of US. American women tend to focus on tracing the belly dance back through mythology of god and goddess in Goddess Belly dance style. This Dance is shared through public performance or used as a private devotional exercise. Goddess Belly Dance use characters from ancient cultural mythology and religion as potent theme material to perform dances. In Sumerian Iraq and the Anatolia region of Turkey you will find some god example of goddess belly dance. This would also entail a Pharaonic style. The cave is equivalent to the belly, or the womb. Some dancers identify the classic elements in the dance and incite personal clairvoyant and spiritual links. Other ancient movement practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, and Zen practice the pursuit of the ancient wisdom embodied in the dance.
Gothic Fantasy Belly Dance
Gothic Fantasy Belly Dance is the dance of urban tribal. It’s very popular among extremely artistic young people in America and Germany. It is currently evolving. Music might be fusion, techno, trance or ethnic. This is a recent trend in belly dancing. It develops style of belly dance. It is illustrious by its urban tribal femme fatale look. Gothic Belly Dance costuming involves dark fabrics, black, pale skin, vinyl, piercing, leather, silver studs, strong eye shadow, and vampire-like looks.
Male Belly Dancing
There has always been a tradition of men cross-dressing to follow women and dance with a womanly flair. Among the most famous 20th century males in the profession are John Compton and Bert Baladine of San Francisco, Ibrahim Farrah and Yussari Sharif of New York, Amir of Boston, Aziz and Jason of Salt Lake City, Jim Boz and Alfredo of the Northwest, Said el Amir and Horecio of Germany, Prince ArKhan of Turkey, and Mousbah Baalbaki of Lebanon. They are called Cengi in Syria, Kojak in Turkey, Batcha in Persia, Qawaal in Arabia, and Hawaal in Egypt. Since the Middle East is a set apart society, at certain times and places in history, it has been seen as inappropriate for women to dance in the company of men. Female impersonators conventionally have taken their place. Today, Turkey seems to be the most liberal of these dancers. Many people report experiencing these shows. Some spectators see them without knowing it because the dancers have achieved their goal to go by as females.
Not all male dancers in the belly dance world, however, are female impersonators. Some men may develop provoking stage personalities, perform bared body movements, and demonstrate physical feats of abdominal muscle, nimbleness, and flexibility that amaze audiences of men and women alike. Sometimes they employ swords, sticks, and capes as props. Such is the fun of show business.
Fantasy Belly Dance
This could engage many other labels of belly dance as ornamentation: Gothic, Goddess, Space Age, Animals and mythic creatures, Fairy tales or myth… whatever is fantastic, outside of reality or tradition, and embryonic from thoughts. The movements are perceptibly linked to the vocabulary of belly dance. Profligate costuming and props and back drops figure heavily into the act as does thematic content. Sheharazade, who is based in Germany, is of this style. As San Francisco dance troupe is the called “Ultra Gypsy.”
Fusion Belly Dance
This dance style mixes two or more familiar ethnicity, themes, costuming, or music used to assemble the dance performance. In today’s modern world, we are more globally prejudiced. The veiled boundaries between people and ideas are swiftly declining away.
American Gypsy Style
The American version of Gypsy style belly dance blends many dance flavors together. This dance is reflective of what many call “gypsy style”. However, in America this style of dance is very eclectic. The Turkish Gypsies belly dance topless in the famous Sulukele district of Istanbul. The Spanish/Moorish influence manifests as “Zambra,” a form of flamenco employed by belly dancers, along with Indian Kathak, Turkish Gypsy, folk dance, American spunk, vamp, and imagination. Typical costume characteristics include large, full, colorful skirts, fringe scarves on hips, elegant sleeves and Moorish art accents.
The Romany people migrated from north India’s region of Rajistan in 1000 AD. Generation after generation, they journeyed all over the world with their crafts, music and dance trades, picking up a little of this and that from the cultures they encountered.
