rsps
New member
It has been interesting over the last few weeks to pop in and browse content on this site.
I'm new here, new to bellydance (but not performance arts) but this place does not seem like a positive uplifting forum at all.
Dance (like art and literature) is a living, dynamic thing. There are so many styles of 'bellydance' and yet it seems that there is so much rancor between hard core practitioners of certain styles and those who take pride in their dance being rooted[/B] in the history and movement of 'bellydance' but do not claim to be Egyptian or Turkish in their style of dance.
Honestly, that seems self defeating, a desire to stagnate.
The art of performance dance isn't a formula based on precise music and moves. If a person claims to be Egyptian style dancer then YES they must know and embrace the history/music/culture and specificity of the dance to be true to that particular form. But even then not even the modern Egyptian dancers all follow da rulz. Honestly, I'd rather watch clips of Samia Gamal than most the Bd's I've seen on my friends Arabic Channels.
With so many fusions out there to critique Fusion with the rigid ruler of Historical forms is just not doing justice to the Evolution of dance. And BD should NOT stay the same. It should Evolve.
Is it lovely/dynamic?
Is the movement rooted in the historical understanding of 'bellydance'?
Does it move the audience to appreciate bellydance as an art form?
Those are just my thoughts as a rather novice BD'er...but not a novice to the arts.
I'm new here, new to bellydance (but not performance arts) but this place does not seem like a positive uplifting forum at all.
Dance (like art and literature) is a living, dynamic thing. There are so many styles of 'bellydance' and yet it seems that there is so much rancor between hard core practitioners of certain styles and those who take pride in their dance being rooted[/B] in the history and movement of 'bellydance' but do not claim to be Egyptian or Turkish in their style of dance.
Honestly, that seems self defeating, a desire to stagnate.
The art of performance dance isn't a formula based on precise music and moves. If a person claims to be Egyptian style dancer then YES they must know and embrace the history/music/culture and specificity of the dance to be true to that particular form. But even then not even the modern Egyptian dancers all follow da rulz. Honestly, I'd rather watch clips of Samia Gamal than most the Bd's I've seen on my friends Arabic Channels.
With so many fusions out there to critique Fusion with the rigid ruler of Historical forms is just not doing justice to the Evolution of dance. And BD should NOT stay the same. It should Evolve.
Is it lovely/dynamic?
Is the movement rooted in the historical understanding of 'bellydance'?
Does it move the audience to appreciate bellydance as an art form?
Those are just my thoughts as a rather novice BD'er...but not a novice to the arts.