khanjar
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I read somewhere, I forget where that there are theories that the origin of the description ; ''belly'' dance pre dates dance du ventre and that because of beladi a word in a foreign language heard by other foreigners, Now intoning both words ; beledi and belly, I can understand where the latter term might have come from and can see why a country dance which beladi is might have become ''belly'' dance to foreigners.
That being in french ''belly'' dance can become ''dance du ventre''.
Maybe it was nothing at all to do with the belly, despite the fact that colonial audiences might have had a fixation about that area made bare and was in fact a case of lost in translation and what we call belly dance should be in fact called beledi dance.
Has anyone else any thoughts on this ?
That being in french ''belly'' dance can become ''dance du ventre''.
Maybe it was nothing at all to do with the belly, despite the fact that colonial audiences might have had a fixation about that area made bare and was in fact a case of lost in translation and what we call belly dance should be in fact called beledi dance.
Has anyone else any thoughts on this ?