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Originally Posted by A'isha Azar
I would agree that from a dancer's standpoint, the tearing off of the shirt was an unnecessary theatrical gimick. But, the general public has no idea whether or not they have just seen something that qualifies as "belly dance". They will build an attitude toward the dance based on a lot of stuff that is not dance, until WE start taking the responsibility to educate them to what the dance is and is not.
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Agreed. Replay my rant about sleazy dancers!
The baffling thing about it was that this particular male dancer was a VERY well known one whom I know darn well knows better. I won't sully his name by outing him as he never had done it before to the best of my knowledge, and hasn't since. Plus he is an awesome dancer. Probably, he just "went with the moment", and asked himself later "WHY did I do that?".