Bellydance Scavenger Hunt game!

[Aniseteph]

I found an article about debke! Debke | Belly Dance News & Events - Gilded Serpent

I have no idea how authoritative it is; this section gave me a WTF moment and actually comes across as pretty ignorant.

It is popular to believe that Belly Dance originated in Egypt, but Cabaret Belly dance Style actually originated with the French invaders who controlled North Africa, and Lebanon.

They were a lot less restrictive and the French style Cabaret was so popular. Countries occupied by France became republics. Most Arabs know that Cabaret Belly Dance started with the Casinos and Cabarets set up by the French to entertain the French. The Cabarets and Casinos were fashioned after the Casinos and Cabarets in France where the “Can Can” was the main attraction. I believe this is true….Simply because the British have no dances of their own, or food (except maybe fish and chips). In Arabic, Belly Dance is called “Raks B’tn” (Stomach Dance). In French it is called Danz Orientale or Daneues du Ventre. Badia Masabni, of Lebanese Heritage is credited with coming up with the Cabaret Belly Dance Costume, as well as schools. In addition, she opened the first Cabarets in Egypt fashioning them after the Cabarets in France and Beirut.

Um, yeah, right.... But hey, what would I know in a country that has no dance or food of its own? At least I know enough to know that "Danz Orientale or Daneues du Ventre" ain't French.

(sorry to thread hijack but when I read it I had to rant.)

Well being as I've woken this thread up, lets get topical - someone find me a World Cup Belly Dance Fusion.

 

[Sita]

I found an article about debke! Debke | Belly Dance News & Events - Gilded Serpent

I have no idea how authoritative it is; this section gave me a WTF moment and actually comes across as pretty ignorant.


Um, yeah, right.... But hey, what would I know in a country that has no dance or food of its own? At least I know enough to know that "Danz Orientale or Daneues du Ventre" ain't French.

(sorry to thread hijack but when I read it I had to rant.)

Well being as I've woken this thread up, lets get topical - someone find me a World Cup Belly Dance Fusion.

My lord that is awful especially when I had to go through years of Country Dance and Moorish like dancing at school and for May Day... and now they tell me it was all for Nothing and there's no such thing: (&*(&*&*^&%%& - I was 7-9 and had to dance in partners with snot-nosed boys I hated....
Please let me meet the writer of this article so I can share this suffering :lol::shok::lol:

Sita

 

[Amulya]

There is a belly dance world cup fusion thing (maybe not world cup) of FCBD on one of their DVDs, but that was dancing in some stadium for baseball football or something.
I think that doesn't count