This thing has been kicking around the interwebs for ages. It makes some valid points, but I have issues with a couple of parts. Namely:
"Hands are generally straight, in a fist, or in a half fist"
Can you imagine someone belly dancing with their hands forming fists? Or hands stiff-straight? This is belly dance, not the military.
"Where women do soft motions, men can do sharp ones."
This strikes me as a really silly generalization. So I can do undulations, but not locks? Male dancers can do locks, but not undulations? How is a guy supposed to dance to a taksim without soft motion? How is a female to dance to a drum solo doing only soft motion?
"he lets them know he will not be challenged, perhaps with a slow fierce gaze over the crowd"
Last I checked, belly dance wasn't about being dominant over the audience. I'm all for gazing into the audience, but not in this context. The look a belly dancer gives his/her audience should be different from the look a wrestler gives his opponent moments before the match starts
Does anyone know who the author "stephan" is?
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