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Originally Posted by Mark_Balahadia
Actually even Nagwa crossed the line. There's film I saw of her where she took her top off (of course she wasn't showing her chest but you get the idea). Naughty naughty!
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And so what? What I'm talking about is dance not acting. The great thing about being in Cairo back then was you could see a top star dancer every night of the week and each one of them was unique and had something special to share and with one exception, Sahar, none of them had to get down in the sewer.
Now as far as Dina is concerned I'll say this, even at her most risque she doesn't even come close to someone like Britney when it comes to blatant sexuality. Dina is not a cheap slut. She did what se did for a reason, not just to be doing it. It was a unique statement and each individual is free to decide for him or herself if they appreciate her particular interpretation and that is the point most people miss, especially people who just blindly copy her because they see she's famous and are trying to hitch their wagon to her star. The problem also gets amplified with western dancers who barely understand what Egyptian Dance is all about in the first place thinking, oh, that's the new thing in Cairo, let me do it too. They don't understand that one person's interpretation is just that, their interpretation and not necessarily indicative of the dance or what the dance is all about. You can find tons of clips on youtube of low class Egyptian dancers dry humping the male guests at low class street weddings. It does not mean we should do it too. We have to understand the context of who those individuals are and why they choses to behave the way they do and realize there is a big difference between what is a part of the dance, what is someone doing something they think will make them stand out, someone making a social statement and someone just being down right vulgar and not try to use certain behaviors as justification to do the same.
End of discussion.