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Originally Posted by Lydia dubai
I realy dont know enough about all other country style khaleegy i only talk about ,,nash,, i dont know much about the kuwaity and saoudy way of dancing,so i can not realy comment on those styles of khaleegy perhaps i did not explain it properly,i only think of uae khaleegy..lol.... if people ask...but i do know that the local people from the UAE say that if they go to cairo to clubs they are laughing about the way the dancers presenting the khaleegy,So i geuss there is still a lot of misunderstanding how and how not to do it...have a nice day everybody,Lydia
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Lydia,
I know there's a difference between local Emirati shaa3bi arts and that of Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, but if you look closely at the "khaleegi dance" attempts by foreigners it looks for the most part an imitation of what the Saudi's are doing. I think most of it is due to the fact that Saudi Arabian artists were the first to cross over and become known to the rest of the Arab world. Kuwait had theaters and staged performances very early (there are many clips on youtube of TV footage that goes back to the 1960's) while the UAE was still pretty much a desert in the early 90's, and I think very little had been known about its local arts until the satellite channel boom 8 years ago. Also if you look at the female artists: 3etab started in the 70's, Nawal (Kuwait) who is a legend now was already famous in the 80's, and the UAE came later; Ahlam was the first Emirati artist to become known outside the UAE and I remember this was around 1996.