Tarik Sultan
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Is that the one you recently rocked at the BOCAFest? If so, it's gorgeous!
YEP!
Is that the one you recently rocked at the BOCAFest? If so, it's gorgeous!
Is that the one you recently rocked at the BOCAFest? If so, it's gorgeous!
So I thought I'd answer Shanazel's original post which started this discussion, straight up.
As a dancer, I love self expression, and to entertain. Belly dance movement is an important part.
As a choreographer, I use everything in my movement "arsenal," eventually. Belly dance movement is an important part.
And that's it, in a nutshell. Ancillary satisfaction comes from appreciating the vibrant "culture" of belly dance, which I believe has expanded far beyond whatever original boundaries existed in its original ME milieu. I respect the ME origins, but won't be driven by, or creatively enslaved to them. And I don't see any gender restrictions either, except in the minds of the narrow minded. Shanazel, you're obviously not narrow minded, just trying to understand. I don't think our reasons for dancing are any different, at heart.
He's lying! Its the beer! We do it for the peanuts and the free beer!
I'm laughing so hard right now I can probably push out a 10 lb baby too and I ain't even pregnant!!!!LMAOHaving produced two ten and a half pound babies via natural childbirth, I always get a hysterical urge to laugh whenever someone brings up the "imitate childbirth" thing. I cannot recall a single thing I did while pushing those human Tonka trucks out that looked (or felt) anything like what I do while dancing. (Oh, heavens, here comes the hysterical laughter... excuse me while I get myself under control.) No shoulder shimmies, no graceful belly rolls, no mayas, no sweet and sexy little smiles for my husband or the OB-Gyn... And I sure the hell would've been thrown off stage had I demonstrated my superior baby-pushing-out abilities during a dance.:lol::lol:
So I thought I'd answer Shanazel's original post which started this discussion, straight up.
Shanazel, you're obviously not narrow minded, just trying to understand. I don't think our reasons for dancing are any different, at heart.
No, not here, in Egypt.
Remember when [...] women who wore pants caused scandals?
A few days ago, my roommate and another friend started a discussion about how weird I was because I prefer to wear skirts to pants, and do so quite often. And I quote: "Why can't you just wear pants like everybody else? It's not normal." :lol:
(In my defense, I do wear pants and jeans, just not all the time, and skirts for me are not reserved for going-out wear.)
Just found the contrast between the two points of view funny.
Didi
NEVER! This is the thread from H.E. double hockey sticks and shall live forever!!! BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :tongue:Would someone please strangle this thread, or at least take my name OFF? The thead spun off from another thread- I did not originate it, but here a year later, it comes back to haunt me.
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Can I please return to quiet anonymity now?
Resist you, Zorba? I won't even try. For one thing, I'm too slow tonight. "HE double hocky sticks?" I thought, imagining: HE77. "What the hell is he... oh."
Past my bedtime, for sure.
Like my fashion icon, Gilda Radner (God rest her soul), I base my fashion decisions on what doesn't itch.