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........You mean you don't do this at home Maria? Oh well, I guess my fantasies of watching you flex your biceps while undulating around the Acropolis will never be realised!  |
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07-04-2008, 01:12 PM
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 and that means we should pick it apart and say she's a shitty dancer with a fat arse? I don't post this and say his technique with a staff is terrible, how dare he! YouTube - Star Wars Kid |
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07-07-2008, 02:23 PM
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...belly dance luge, belly dance triathalon, belly dance unparallel bars, and what's the one where they combine cross country skiing and rifle marksmanship?
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07-07-2008, 04:46 PM
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07-07-2008, 04:58 PM
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07-08-2008, 01:21 AM
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Ok can someone explained to me what the BIG DEAL is?! Ok yes at first I was disturbed but she has can belly dance. I have seen others who have a perfect belly dancer body and who couldn't do it all. They just flexed and moved their hips.
Sure she could use a better outfit, and is she is rather built, but she sure seems happy to me. I rather enjoyed the ice dancers, at least they dare to expand the horizon of belly dance. I swear, some people. EDIT: The Belly Dancers on ice, what is the song and who sings it? I really enjoy it. Last edited by Twilight Spiral; 07-08-2008 at 01:23 AM. |
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07-08-2008, 02:55 AM
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Okay, Twilight, I will explain from my own perspective as a dance teacher and a one-time (albeit long ago) professional dancer. Other people may have different reasons for negative reactions to these videos- I don't speak for everyone.
The big deal: People who have seriously studied middle eastern dance for any length of time tend to be irritated by the presumption and hubris of ice skaters, bodybuilders, and others who throw in a few hip movements and a shimmy or two into their chosen activity and hold themselves forth as belly dancers. It is a misrepresentation and what is worse a trivialization of belly dance. The ice skaters were not expanding the horizon of belly dance, they were using a gimmick to gain attention for themselves in their own chosen activity, which is ice skating and not belly dance. They may have expanded the horizons of ice skating (not being a skater, I couldn't say) but as a belly dance, the performance was lacking in a number of essential elements. The body builder may be able to belly dance, but she did not prove it in this video. She was obviously a body builder using a few belly dance-like movements as a gimmick and not a belly dancer who decided to add flexing to her routine. Last edited by Shanazel; 07-08-2008 at 03:00 AM. |
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