I am not aware of women going to watch male dancers to ogle their bodies but who knows? nothing surprises me.
When Khaled mahmoud first come to the UK and was unknown here, he took part in one of my shows. He did his thing in a galabiya (after we persuaded him not to wear his gold hot pants) and then did a zar with me and another friend at the end. He was the talking piont of the show and he was nowhere near as good as he is now. One teacher told me she was getting hot flushes and an orgasms watching him. HOW??? Lucky he never wore the shorts.
In the past however many years, I only know of Shafeek and locally a lovely guy called Marco who is from Rhodes and does Greek dancing too.
The UK is not a place which is going to home grow male dancers even if we tried hard. there are probably many more I dont know about but I do travel around the country and teach at festivals etc and I dont come across too many.
America is of course a much bigger country but how many men do you think you have taking over there per kilometre?
Dance generally in the past 15 years has seen a growth in popularity for men. Here is it generally salsa classes but even that has cooled right off.
A'isha,
It is not nice to feel stabbed in the back. although I am not really sure why you do?
did you make agreement with the men you taught never to go off and do it alone or what?
When costumers are making more mens costumes than womens, then it is time to worry. Til now, no one is making any, unless by special order, so the business cannot be worth the while. Oriental Moon were trying but they told me there was very little feedback and the few who did wanted very different types of costumes so it is was really worth producing a collection.
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