Kharmine

Your English is good enough, don't worry!

I've been researching this for awhile now, and while I still don't know enough I can say that there is flamenco, there is belly dance, and then there are fusions that blend whatever the particular dancer feels like blending, whenever he/she feels like doing it.

Fusion origins can be hard to pin down, but between Andalucia and North Africa, they've been going on in music, song and dance for hundreds of years.

These fusions get lots of different names because there is really no one "official" style called "Oriental Flamenco" or "flamenco Arabe" or anything like that. People give their fusion a label in order to try to explain what they're doing.

But you can find a kind of blend of Spanish/Arabic cultures in some Sephardic Jewish dances, in some music out of Morocco, for instance, and in a particular dance done by Andalucian gypsies called "zambra." Look up zambra in YouTube, and you'll see a lot of stuff that it ain't -- again, people are just hangin' a label on a fusion.

Zambra is of old Moorish origin. Spanish gypsies are the ones who adapted it a long time ago. It's not flamenco, but it does have Spanish influence, too. I put a really good example of it in the Videos section here on the forum -- look for "zambra."

Hope that helps!

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