Not Golden Era- but still Vintage as Heck
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Greek Bonfire
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I love Latifa. She's always posting this classic stuff on Facebook plus many other historical events when she was with Arabesque.
Greek Bonfire
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Zorba
"The Veiled Male"
All were fantastic - but that last one with "Marina". Holy. Goddess. Mother. All I can say is "WOW!" If I *had* to find fault with her performance, I could comment about her arms being sub-optimal - I have the EXACT same problem (only worse!) holding my zills close to my chest with bent arms. Be that as it may, I'm glad I wasn't at that performance because I would have passed out from lack of air! Why? Because I'm not worthy to breathe the same air as that dancer!
Subscribed to Latifa's channel - I'm still not sure if she's the one I knew or not...
Subscribed to Latifa's channel - I'm still not sure if she's the one I knew or not...
Shanazel
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I love watching these videos. This is what American belly dance was when I started and it makes me laugh to think that sooner or later, people will be performing this era's style as a retro art form.
I'm not just old- I'm vintage.
I find that I am am feeling twinges of resentment at the loss of my photos from back then. My then-boyfriend absconded with my photographs when we split up, the cad.
I'm not just old- I'm vintage.
I find that I am am feeling twinges of resentment at the loss of my photos from back then. My then-boyfriend absconded with my photographs when we split up, the cad.
Greek Bonfire
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These videos are what originally attracted me to bellydancing in the first place. If I had seen some of the other fusion and "Russia-ed" up stuff, I never would've bothered.
Shanazel
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When I went to the bank today, the teller was a former dance student who wanted to know when I was coming back to teach at the rec center. Never. I am quite firmly retired. She tells me there are no belly dance classes at the rec center anymore because people stopped signing up. That's so sad. One of my long time students dropped out due to terrible environmental allergies, two more were splitting the teaching year between them, one quit because of conflicts that arose with a singularly difficult student who himself quit too late to keep from alienating a couple of other people as well. Breaks my heart to see what had been such a tight group disintegrate. A year of no classes due to covid didn't help. I think there is still one private teacher in town but I haven't talked to her in a while. Hey! Maybe I'll call her and see what's up in her world. Great idea. I've always enjoyed her company.
Greek Bonfire
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As a Greek bellydancer myself and being familiar with this song, I think there are many Greeks who do not consider this solely as Turkish, although to give credit to what Zorba said, when Greek bellydancers are performing, it's listed as Arabic bellydancing. The ironly, however, is the women are BELLYDANCING while the men are doing more FOLKLORIC, yet it fits. I have to say that on one video I posted of myself on YouTube as "Greek Bellydance" got over 10,000 hits, mostly from Greece, and most of the hits I got also were "likes" but this topic is consistently up for debate.
Greek Bonfire
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Here's a Turkish bellydance clip from the Golden Era, which is about as cheesy as you can get <lol> And it's using a GREEK song!!
Greek Bonfire
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Maybe I'm feeling perverse today, but this is another tacky POS.
Shanazel
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Well, that was terrible. When the two guards picked up the drum and turned it over at about 1:50, I thought for a flashing moment that they were going to put it over her head and squish her back down. Wonder what she did with the other leg of her harem pants?
I love Misirlu and used it a lot. Must've had at least half a different versions of it.
Greek Bonfire
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That's adding insult injury - the Turks using a beautiful GREEK song and calling it their own. From what I do know, Turkish bellydancers in the past were subjected to the worst treatment, mostly acting as prostitutes after dancing in a show.