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~Jazzbastard79:iconJazzbastard79: Jun 21, 2009, 1:00:19 AM
I admit I'm not very well educated on how harems work/worked. Then again, like a lot of people when I thin of harems, I think of concubines and the like, which infers slavery in a loose kind of way. Then again, pop culture is pretty much perverted with scifi/action adventure tales that are mostly fictionalized crap anyway.
*hennanights:iconhennanights: Jun 21, 2009, 1:40:51 AM
To Middle Easterners saying a harem is full of concubines is the same as calling a child care centre a brothel. The same goes for bellydancing. The US has put their own perverted view on it. Its not even called belly dance but unfortunately dancers continue to use it because it so ingrained in the west. If I advertised Raks Sharki classes nobody would come. We have to settle for educating them once they are thru the door. Bellydance is done by men, women and children. It only becomes sexual when it danced in a sexual way..if that makes sense. Kids in the west dance disco - strippers dance disco. Same dance different meaning.

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~Jazzbastard79:iconJazzbastard79: Jun 21, 2009, 1:59:04 AM
I think I get your meaning, as far as the comparison between what the belly dance is compared to how its perceived in western culture. I suppose its unfair to blame the US in general for the misinterpretation. After all, plenty of Europeans have the wrong idea as well. But fuck all that I suppose.

I'm not a dancer myself. I'm content with making the music.
*hennanights:iconhennanights: Jun 21, 2009, 2:06:06 AM
Oh I only say the US because the day it was named bellydance and called sexual was very well documented. They called her little Egypt. She danced at the world Chicago fair, 1930. When a newspaper man asked her what her dance was called she said Beledi which means folk. Her manager followed it up with but we call it - belly dance - a play on her words.

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Bob Carlos Clarke said of his wife Lindsey once "It takes a strong woman to be with a man that is obsessed with photographing the woman at the next table...."

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~Jazzbastard79:iconJazzbastard79: Jun 21, 2009, 2:13:31 AM
Ya know, its funny we are on the subject because it just so happens that I was rummaging through a box of records at an antique shop this morning and they had a collection of albums from the 50's that were " how to learn the belly dance for you husband" themed. kitschy stuff back in its time.

I remember reading about little Egypt somewhere...along with Isadora Duncan.
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