History of Belly Dancing

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Hello! Thank you for joining us here at expertvillage.com. My name is Portia and I am a professional belly dancer. I am also the owner of Belly Motions in Middle Eastern Dance Academy in Miami, Florida. You can checkout our web site at www.bellymotions.com. Today, I am going to show you some beginner belly dance movements including posture, warmup and the basics. First let us go ahead and begin with a little bit of history about Middle Eastern Dancing. As you know, we refer it to here in the US as belly dance, but there are many different styles of dancing and from many different countries in the Middle East, there is Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, just to name a few. I specialize in Egyptian style of dance but the movements I am going to show you today will be universal and basic for all styles. It’s important to remember that belly dance is a beautiful dance created for women by women and is often misunderstood and misinterpreted. Today, we are going to breakthrough some of those stereotypes and we are going to teach you how to dance.

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