What is Oriental Dance?

Oriental dance, commonly known as belly dance, is mostly female solo dance. State-owned male belly dancers such as Lebanon usually start with a song, but they see a girl wearing a white gauze, holding a metal cymbal, wearing rings, necklaces and other accessories, and her chest is towering, half-covered and half-naked. When the audience looked closely, the actor's naked abdomen was actually wearing a layer of transparent nylon yarn, surrounded by stripes and golden hip belts.

At this time, the dancers open their hands, stretch their waists and twist their hips and breasts, and their movements are cheerful and clear, which fully shows the curvaceous beauty of women. The audience clapped rhythmically to the melodious Arabic music. With the acceleration of music melody, the twist of waist, hip and hip is accelerated. The music stopped abruptly, and the dancer took a half step forward with his right foot, with his toes on the ground and his hips leaning forward, and one appeared. The audience applauded again.

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Characteristics of dance

Dance movements in dance works should also have certain skills, and dancers should have high-level skills such as jumping, rotating, tumbling, softening and controlling. However, performing high-level skills in dance works is not an end in itself, but a means to express characters' thoughts and feelings and shape their character and mental outlook.

If the means is the purpose in dance works, the superb skills of the actors are not based on reflecting life and expressing the thoughts and feelings of the characters, or the corresponding dance action skills are not based on the dance content, but on showing the dance skills and abilities mastered by the actors.

That will lead to the failure of dance works because of the disconnection between content and form, or the lack of artistic integrity, and the dancers' skills themselves will fall into acrobatic performance, thus losing the basic character of dance art.

Reference: Dance Features-Baidu Encyclopedia