Sabah, etc.
Dear Group,
I also posted about the dancer in a different part of the forum, but here goes again!! Though I felt that she was a technically skillful dancer, I saw that there was no real meshing of the two styles, so that the result was rather "bipolar". I did not feel good about watching what she was doing because it was as if she was trying to combine two things that do not go together.... like chocolate and lobster...both delicious, but please not together!!! Toe dancing and shimmies have two very different meanings and so the result was sort of...I don't know...mentally not comfortable, I guess. I would agree with those who said that they did not consider her dance to be belly dance. I wonder at what she was trying to say with the dance; what her intent was. If it was to show off her skills, she did it. If it was to create a smooth blending of two opposite styles of dance, she did not.
Regards,
A'isha
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