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Originally Posted by Tarik Sultan
Sweetie: We have been down this road before. You have to take my response in the context that it was intended. Furthermore, there is no reason to bring up insinuations of my friends being more valid sources of information than yours. Your name wasn't even a part of the discussion. My comment was to Moondancer and to the fact that there are in fact Egyptians who are giving false information. I further qualified my opinion by stataing that perhaps her teacher was speaking in the context of theater dancing, in which case the statement that men don't move their hips when they dance would be correct. BUT, that is THEATER dance, not REAL folk dance, because as we both know, in the real folk dances, men do in fact dance with their hips as well as the rest of their bodies.
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Dear Tarik,
I would assume that I would be as welcome to comment as anyone else on the thread, my name coming into it or not. You often do not make clear whether or not you mean street dance, which in effect is not belly dance, or actual belly dance, which is a stage entertainment, or theatrical or authentic folkloric. I have asked you before to please clarify and so if I get confused by what you say, please be willing to take at least 50% of the responsibility. In fact we agree, even in theatrical representations of the dances, men often do move their hips. Her teacher actually said something more along the lines of men don't move their hips like women do, which I find to be an anatomically correct statement. Since I do not intend to get into a long thing with you on Christmas Eve let me say
"Merry Christmas to all (especially that good looking Tarik dude) and to all a good night!!~"
Regards,
A'isha