da Sage
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Since I seem to be an untrustworthy source, I certainly would not take MY word for it for sure. Nor, I guess, any of the words of any of the people with whom I have discussed the dance for the last 25 years or so, because it is really their information and not mine that is in those two articles. The Confused article does give background in Khaliji if you know how to look for it. Movement, again, is only a part of the picture, just like in belly dance.
I have a khaliji costume collection that is over the top. I have everything from underdresses to abayas from Saudi and the Gulf, to different face veils from several locations, to Hindi style thobes, to Nejdi style thobes, a Yemeni costume around here somewhere except I can't find the hat., etc, etc, etc. I am probably just lying about all that though, and making stuff up since I am not a trustworthy source.
I said I would be unlikely to believe such an elaborate explanation (when a simple one makes just as much sense) unless I heard it from a few sources. You are only one source, and you quoted only one source of the story in your Khaleegy movement article. The other article is about Khaleegy costuming, with only a few notes on movement, and nothing about the movements being representational of anything at all.
I'm sorry that you feel I've attacked you, when all I did was state my general state of skepticism.