It is possible to dance khaleegi with either short or long hair. Long hair is a plus but it's not a must.
If you look at the male khaleegi dancers many of them can dance very well, a lot of times they dance even better than the women. And these are men who don't have more than two inches of hair if any, and they usually cover their head with a traditional scarf anyway.
It's always nice to have long hair when doing Khaleegi dances, but that's not all there is to it. It's true most foreign dancers think it's all about the hair, I guess because it's all they can see.... ie. that's what is most visible to them. I have seen quite a few on youtube cheezy choreographies that look like they've been rehearsed 1,000 times accompanied with endless hair tossing. Unfortunately, that's not how real women/men from the arabian gulf dance. I know that in khaleegi music each drum beat/rhythm has a name, and the native people know these rhythms by heart.
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