I'm not a mother and I do realize that I live in quite a safe country and that the risks could be bigger in the USA or other countries, so my opinions might be different in another context.
Here I have several times seen childrens troupes belly dancing at student recitals and also a 4-year old girl performing solo (improvising!) in a public performance. They all did quite well actually apart from being maybe not so interesting dancewise.
The only time I was a bit concerned was when I watched 5 teenage girls performing melaya lef in VERY short dresses. They were all so clearly insecure in the roles of cheeky, flirty meleya girls with attitude, that I was uncomfortable watching them dance. I think the teacher should have had better judgement but she must have thought otherwise.
If you must forbid young girls to perform you have to forbid the young boys as well. Don't make it all about just the girls.
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You need chaos in your soul to create a dancing star-nietzsche
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