Month: September 2019

Christian Belly Dance

Today, male belly dancing is gaining popularity in the world. Someone may consider it effeminate, someone the answer of men to the classic bellidance, but this phenomenon cannot be overlooked. Most people think that belly dancing is exclusively a female form of art, but few people realize that male belly dance originates from the depths of centuries. The birthplace of belly dance has always been considered Egypt. However, medieval Islam was extremely disapproving of dances and secular (non-religious) music, and the public performance of dances by a woman was generally considered indecent for Orthodox Muslims. But no people can exist without a song and dance culture, because this is a natural human need. Therefore, in Egypt, the nomadic hawazi people were born and spread. Usually this nomadic tribe lived in tents near large settlements. Gawazi women were the first belly dancers, although at that time he was not like the classic Rax Sharkey. In the middle of the nineteenth century,…

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