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Aziyade · 12-12-2007, 09:04 PM

99% of it is the music.

Or I should say it WAS the music.

Today's Turkish dancers are either going completely out of their way to be different and innovative (like Didem) or they're dancing to Egyptian music in the way they believe to be Egyptian style.

(not quite sure WHY, but everyone's been complaining about it -- especially Turkish people.)

Egyptian belly dance has a strong root in Egyptian folk dance and music. Turkish belly dance has a strong root in Turkish folk dance and music.

If you study the music, and check out some of the folk dances, you'll start to see that traditional Turkish music just requires a different kind of movement style than Egyptian music does.

The usual cliche is that Turkish is more outward and energetic, with more hip lifts rather than drops, but that's describing Turkish dance from 30 years ago.

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Aziyade V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cornfields of Evansville Indiana. Posts: 1,049	99% of it is the music. Or I should say it WAS the music. Today's Turkish dancers are either going completely out of their way to be different and innovative (like Didem) or they're dancing to Egyptian music in the way they believe to be Egyptian style. (not quite sure WHY, but everyone's been complaining about it -- especially Turkish people.) Egyptian belly dance has a strong root in Egyptian folk dance and music. Turkish belly dance has a strong root in Turkish folk dance and music. If you study the music, and check out some of the folk dances, you'll start to see that traditional Turkish music just requires a different kind of movement style than Egyptian music does. The usual cliche is that Turkish is more outward and energetic, with more hip lifts rather than drops, but that's describing Turkish dance from 30 years ago.