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Guide to Belly Dancing – Part 4 More Styles and Fashion


okay so when you belly dance there’s a
lot of ways to do it right or to add to
your performance in America a lot of
things are added to your to the
performance of a belly dancer more than
in the Eastern countries where it
actually started so you have a sort some
people well some dancers use it they
place it on their head and then they
start dancing with them there’s also the
candles you know you put candles on a
chandelier and so on and you you keep
dance with it as well the stick right
the stick is the most common form you
know when you put it on your head you
balance it
and then you do movement right while
it’s on the head without making it fall
the stick is actually used in the Middle
East more by men it’s not something that
the women used to use but in America it
is pretty popular another thing that’s
also very popular is the Veil the veil
is something that in Egypt is usually in
the entrance right like it’s just
something to end to enter with to have
like a big BAM when you come in but here
in America some people do whole dance
routines just you know keeping the
villain on the body and dancing with it
and actually it’s only been around for I
think 200 years not even it’s not that
pop it wasn’t that popular before as i
said in the Middle East they didn’t used
to use a bit and if also some people use
those ills also the finger cymbals those
have been a while around for quite a
while I think 200 BC they were very
popular and in America we use them with
the music you know well the music song
we just read we show that we can
coordinate but really in the Middle East
you stop the music completely and then
you let the dancer do them that’s the
difference in the contrast between the
Middle East and the American style of
Mellie dating
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