A contemporary style of bellydance
Fusion bellydance is just what is says: a mix of different dance styles mixed with bellydance or oriental dance. It can be a blend of bollywood, techno and cabaret style or any other style going from hip-hop to even tango and salsa.
The fusion bellydancer is free to compose the outfit according to whatever comes up in mind.
Various kinds of costumes and music make it difficult to define. Fusion bellydance can be ethnic inspired as in:
http://www.tribal-bellydance.be
http://www.fusion-bellydance.com
Some dancers use even heavy rock music - the so called gothic fusion style.
What Rachel Brice of the Indigo and the Bellydance Superstars does is more fusion bellydance than tribal style or ATS.
Fusion bellydance resources
- Tribal and Fusion music
- Innovative tribal and bellydance fusion music
- Tribal bellydance
- Background information and historic tribal costumes
- Bellydance museum
- Hundreds of original pictures and images, vintage movie-posters, ancient postcards, trade cards, etchings, lithographs on belly dancers and tribal styles
Origins of Fusion belly dance
some historic views
What is now commonly knows as belly dance is called raqs sharqi or in plain english "oriental dance".The Arabic name already gives away one of the origins of the dance, the orient.
In Egytp, the cradle of belly dance, a tribe called ghawazee, is famous for it's dance style which was baptized by French and English orientalist's into "Danse du ventre" or "Belly dance".
According to Edward Lane they claimed to come from India.
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Hasfusion bellydance it's origins in the US?
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Fusionbellydance says:
No, definitely not, although the term was invented in the US, fusion always existed. Belly dance superstars like Samia Gamal added classical dance into her act. Taheya Carioca incorporated Latin American rhythms and movements to her show
Posted January 05, 2008
