Belly dance accessories offer a range of choices for the worldwide market. Coin belts to colourful hip scarves go with the dancer’s moves and add a captivating effect. Diving into belly dance accessories, one discovers many options. Coins, a must-have, bring melodious jingles to the show. Scarves add a touch of grace as they flow […]
Continue reading Belly Dance Accessories – Coin Belts, Hip Scarves, and MoreBelly dancing chiefly focuses on the hips and movements by the hips, and we covered some of them in our previous post. There are so many movements made by the hips that you could almost call this dance style “hip dance” rather than belly dance. I guess that’s why other names for this style exist. […]
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The Basics – Hip Movements When you begin any new exercise, it’s good to know what some of the basic terms mean. After all, if you’d never played football before, you might be puzzled about what dribbling meant, and when you start playing cricket, you need to know what they mean by googlies, fine legs […]
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Understanding the history of belly dance can be difficult. This is partly because the word “belly dance” isn’t particularly ancient. In fact, it was introduced into the English language back in Victorian times as a direct translation of a French term, danse du ventre… which was coined by French art critics after many painters began […]
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Once, I didn’t know much about belly dancing. I’d seen a few scenes in various movies featuring belly dancers, and I’d seen Shakira’s music videos from the early 2000s, and I was fascinated. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but something captivated me about that dance style. It really reached into my heart […]
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