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What are the characteristics of Arabic dance?

Arabic dance plays an important role in the world dance today. It is a dance system that originated in Arabian Peninsula and developed in the cultural exchange between the East and the West, forming its own unique style. It has a great influence on the dance culture of the East and the West. However, dances in the Arab-Islamic world are not as diverse as those in ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient India. Relatively simple and powerless, always attached to Arabic music. Arabic music generally refers to the music of Arabs after the establishment of Islam in the 7th century A.D., but its roots began with the original music in the Arabian desert. The rhythm of Arab primitive music is accompanied by the nomadic life of Arabs, which shows the simple worship of Arab nomadic people to the boundless desert and vast blue sky living environment. The musical tune is simple, and the range does not exceed six degrees. Accompaniment instruments are only string instrument Soner, tambourine dufour, flute Mizmal, wooden stick and castanet flute cloth. Judging from the simple tunes, camel-like rhythms and musical instruments of Arab nomads, the dance in this period is far from art, and it may just be a simple human gesture of "words fail to convey the meaning, singing and dancing".