Male Belly Dancers

[Jameelah]

Love your site by the way!!
You should write a book about becomming a male bellydancer!

 

[Zorba]

I think that is why male bellydancers are a bit taboo at times, because you never know what type of male bellydancer you are going to get!

Yea, and being males, we all think OUR way is best. That's one reason you seldom see more than one of us in a show - put us together and we'd all strangle each other with our veils!

 

[Zorba]

Love your site by the way!!
You should write a book about becomming a male bellydancer!

Horacio already has...

But I have several articles on Gilded Serpent that may interest you.

 

[Jameelah]

Yea, and being males, we all think OUR way is best. That's one reason you seldom see more than one of us in a show - put us together and we'd all strangle each other with our veils!

And women dont???
lol

Will check out the articles when I finish working.!! opps distracted again!!

 

[Pirika Repun]

Here is the video.
Yes, this little boy Mimo is Tito's nephew, and he is more into soccer than dance. Maybe Tito's son will start dancing you never know.

And here is all grow up "Mimo" (now he is 17 and half according to Tito) and his uncle Tito. Yup, Mimo dances again! Tito said Mimo dances at Nile Group festival (only) but really good to see him dance! :yay:
This video is my new favorite!


Another duet: Tito (yup, Tito again) and Tata (?)


BTW, I think I'm very lucky that I've never seen some male dancer who imitate woman or try to be woman. All male dancers I saw all dance as "MAN" and they are very sensual their own way. Their costumes are also very masculine even if they wear skirt, still look as "male" and no hot pants or anything look like stripper.

 

[shiradotnet]

It also felt like a strip show gone wrong.

The very first time I ever saw a male belly dancer was in Ohio, after I had been studying belly dance about a year and a half. A friend hired a male belly dancer to come to my work place (in the high tech industry) to do a bellygram for my birthday. The guy straddled my legs and ground his groin into them, basically, a lap dance.

I was grossed out, and since I'd been telling my brand-new coworkers that I had a hobby belly dancing, it made me feel very embarrassed to have them standing next to me watching this guy grinding away. For weeks afterward, I kept telling my coworkers "That's NOT what *I* do!!!!!!!!!!!"

In retrospect, I think the singing telegram company actually didn't have any "real" male belly dancers, so they just put one of their male strippers into an Arabian nights fantasy costume and sent him to do the gig.

Fortunately, when I moved to the San Francisco area two years later, I saw an excellent performance by John Compton and it was a great relief to see something I could ENJOY watching!

 

[Duvet]

Trouble is, apart from a galabeya there are no easily referenced visual models for a male ME dancer to choose costumes from. Its therefore easy to fall back on the Arabian Nights Genie/Ali Baba or Suleiman warrior images. Or go completely the other way and go all lycra and waxed body.

 

[khanjar]

'Tis curious I think, I was thinking about this thread earlier and lo and behold it is alive again.

Thinking, because for some reason the Miro Show had popped into my head, where on this thread there is a rather good duet.

But ignore my diversion and carry on.

 

[Zorba]

Trouble is, apart from a galabeya there are no easily referenced visual models for a male ME dancer to choose costumes from. Its therefore easy to fall back on the Arabian Nights Genie/Ali Baba or Suleiman warrior images. Or go completely the other way and go all lycra and waxed body.

Even Tito is starting to venture out of his folkloric galabeya and wear cabaret garb. And all the better I say!