What is belly dancing in the Middle East?

Middle Eastern belly dance is a kind of female dance, which is characterized by dancers swinging their hips and abdomen with the ever-changing fast pace. The dance is beautiful and changeable, showing the Arab customs, and is famous for its mystery. In recent years, belly dancing has also become a popular way for women to lose weight all over the world.

Belly dance is a dance form with Arabic flavor, which originated in the Middle East and has made great progress in the Middle East, Pakistan, India, Iran and other areas influenced by Arab culture. /kloc-was introduced to Europe and America at the end of 0/9, and now it has spread all over the world, becoming an international dance.

Belly dance originated in the Middle East. It was originally used as a religious ceremony to describe the endless cycle of nature and human reproduction, to praise women's fertility and the mystery of life. This can explain why belly dancing takes the swing of the abdomen as the main action and requires barefoot in order to keep in touch with the land. This dance form gradually developed into a folk art, and eventually became a unique entertainment and performance form widely popular in the Middle East countries, and it is a wonderful flower in the mysterious Arab culture and art garden.

Belly dance is a very feminine dance, which is characterized by swinging the abdomen and vigorously dancing the arms and chest with the ever-changing fast pace. These movements become belly dancing, which is unbreakable in traditional dance techniques. Belly dancing must be performed on a smooth floor, barefoot dancing, accompanied by music, extremely fast and complicated emotional body movements and fast dance steps, just like foxtrot in Europe and America.

Of course, belly dancing can be solo without accompaniment, and the unique romantic Arabic music is more dynamic. Common accompaniment instruments such as UT piano, Ney, Debrec tambourine, dulcimer, etc. Among them, the percussion tambourine is particularly important. When dancers perform the unique skill of twisting the waist and dancing the belly, the addition of drums is dynamic.

Belly dance also combines other props, such as snakes, swords, veils, candles, flames and so on. The appearance of these props may be influenced by ancient belly dancing and mysterious religious ceremonies. Some countries in the Middle East still respect these highly dramatic and mysterious performances. Especially the intricate snake skills, snakes symbolize men and women, hermaphroditic snakes, very strange, full of Arab mystery.