What is Belly Dance
(part II)
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Realization of inner femininity.
Man
usually has tendency to see mainly erotic aspect in bellydance, whereas
woman has much deeper experience: it revitalises in her (sometimes hidden)
feeling of being feminine.
Femininity
as any other inner natural
quality needs to be expressed and realised in life. In order to realize
potential to create music, one has to learn to play musical instrument. In
order to realize woman’s potential,
we (ladies) need to develop certain skills. When we train our body in
refined feminine way, we welcome our femininity to be expressed first
through the body, and then it starts to flow through our feelings and
behavior in general. It is very joyful for a woman to experience her
feminine power.
Self
acceptance.
Every
woman is unique, and we discover it again and again in our lessons. It is
impossible to make exactly the same movement as someone else does. Here we
face the fact that each of us has her own way of moving, and each woman
learns to discover and accept her own style. She is as she is, and she moves
her own natural way. Each way is beautiful, each body type is accepted.
The self image is gradually changing into more and more positive one.
Self acceptance develops and it opens many other possibilities in life.
State ‘in the dance”
Belly
dance is performed in a state, when dancing woman
is tuned with the music, with her feelings, her body, her knowledge,
skills and yet she is totally free in the flow of
movements and expressions. It
creates in her new experience
of self, which radiates towards the audience. Therefore many belly dancers
take artistic names, which differ from their real names. When they are
bellydancing they live different life, and they seem to be different
personalities.