Blog Session 7

Belly Dance

Since I was a little girl I like to dance. Dancing is a fun activity to do and also it is very healthy and good for social life (meeting people, making friends, etc.). Of course not all the people like to do it, because they feel they´re not good at it, or they´re ashamed to do it, but I encourage those to try it, because once you are in the rhythm of the music it´s a very liberating experience.

As I was 4 years old I did classic ballet, but the dance I practice about 10 years now is the “Belly dance”. Many people say it´s a sexist activity, because in his origins it was thought as a way for Arabic women of having a happy husband, and otherwise it was very associated to prostitution. But I think everything can have the use you give to it. In the Arabic culture they think this dance is good for fertility, because the parts of the body you mostly move are in the area of the hips and the belly (that´s why it´s called “belly dance”). Another quality of it is that it makes women feel more confident, it´s like a way of finding and connecting with your feminine side and to feel beautiful and sexy. That is because it´s is not important if you´re skinny or fat, if you´re blond or brunet to make belly dance, because when you are dancing you feel like an Egyptian goddess.