Eastern Dance is a dance of the oldest in existence. In Arabic it is known as "Raks Sharki", and our culture is popularly known as "belly dance" for many movements of the hip and abdomen are performed. Oriental Dance or Raks Sharki combines movements of Egyptian folklore, classical and contemporary dance with turns, turns and movements of all body parts, but especially hip movements.
most talented women in the art of oriental dance belly dancers were called, and sometimes, when they finished dancing at celebrations or during their free time, often met within the harem and dancing for themselves.
Cults fertility and femininity were common in ancient civilizations, including Egypt. The Great Mother Goddess was depicted in many cultures under different names, Aphrodite, Ceres, Isis, Venus ... The function of these goddesses was reproductive and life-giving. Goddesses were not virgins, as this would go against their reproductive function. In the East, for thousands of years, the women were dancing in honor of these goddesses and what they represented. Sometimes when a woman was giving birth, the other women gathered and danced around it. It was a sacred dance and was not shown to men was a dance done by women and for women.
Islam and Christianity destroyed the cult of the Goddess when came to dominate the Middle East in the fourth century. Also, tried to eliminate the dances related to sexuality and fertility. It was then belly dancing step to be valued only by the sensuality that can cause her dancers.
If you have the great pleasure of practicing Oriental Dance, do feel what originally felt concubines, the worship of women, femininity, to the goddess for all of us.
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