Eastern Dance

The Eastern dance , (in Arab raqs Al sharqi ) including/understanding the baladi (popular dance), the sharqi (the Eastern one) and the integration of folk styles such as the saidi, is also called belly dance , although this reducing term is often badly seen by the professional Eastern dancers. It is an ancestral art, a dance with the glory of the women.

“ the life is like Ghaziya, it dances only one moment for each one ” (Egyptian Proverb).

History

The Eastern dance (the belly dance term is pejorative because actually all the body works) or baladi (term used among Canadian-French) is a dance originating in the the Middle East and Arab Pays, danced primarily by Femme S, but also, increasingly danced by men throughout the world

In Arab, it is called Raqs Al sharqi (literally: Eastern dance) and in Turkish Oryantal dansı , which gave the term of Eastern dance . She is recognized like one of the oldest dances of the world especially in the countries of the the Middle East and the the Maghreb (Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Morocco, Algérie…).

It is thought that the origin of this dance goes back to old the Rite S of Fertilité, associated at the same time with the Religion and the esotericism. Very few valid sources of information are accessible on the subject, for this reason there exists as many myths around the origin and of the evolution of this dance.

In the broad sense, the term indicates the Eastern dance in all the forms which she knows today.

The French discovered the Eastern dance when the soldiers of Bonaparte unloaded during the Campagne of Egypt. Coming from a relatively puritan company, least nudity was then perceived to them like a powerful aphrodisiac. By seeing these basins of women déhancher langoureusement - then that the Church of the time considered the dance as a mark of the demon they made an error of appreciation and naturally compared the Eastern dance to an invitation with the prostitution. It is this interpretation, high on the level of the phantasm, which is still nowadays associated with the Eastern dance, and which was worth to him the name of “belly dance”.

Eastern dance

The Eastern dance is traditionally danced by the women, whose this art expresses at the same time all femininity, vitality and the sensuality. There are several styles, depend on the country of origin. In a general way, this dance is characterized by the flexibility and the sensuality of the movements. This art composes as well with the jerked rates/rhythms as slow and fluid.

The practice of the Eastern dance, which comes us from the Middle East, made its entry in Europe and America in the cabarets in the middle of the Années 1930 and Années 1940. Since this time, but especially since the years 1990, this dance makes great strides fulgurating everywhere in the world.

The Eastern dance requests flexibility and tonicity of the bust, the shoulders, the arms, the hands, the basin and the belly. It makes it possible to invigorate the thighs and to soften the articulations. The Eastern dancer has the right to be pulpy - it besides even is very appreciated - it can post her forms.

On the trace of the Gypsies

In the Egyptian villages, one calls a professional dancer a ghaziya (in the plural, ghawazi). In the beginning, the ghawazi were Tziganes. It is now a generic term which appoint the dancers in general, and either a particular tribe or tribes like formerly. The big role that the gypsies in the evolution of the profane dances played finds in the Turkish language where the old term of dancer (cengi) comes from cingene (gypsy).

As an Egyptian, ghawazi means invader or foreigner, and it is true that the gypsies always lived with the periphery of the cities and in margin of the company. All the gypsies of the world have a common origin, India.

Dances of the the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria)

The Egyptian cinema made discover large dancers like Tahia Carioca, Samia Gamal, Neima Akif for most known. Today, occur in Egypt and everywhere in the world Najwa Fouad, Fifi Abdou, Dina, Ketty " the française" , Amani " of Liban" or Samara " of Marseille".

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