Gothic Bellydance is a growing part of the Tribal Belly Dance world, allowing dancers to fuse gothic costuming, industrial/electronic music and elements of tribal fusion dance.
What Is Gothic Bellydance?
Gothic Bellydance is a recent and rapidly growing dance art movement, currently becoming very popular in both, the amateur and professional dance communities of the United States and Europe. [http://www.gothla.co.uk]
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Tempest - darkly dramatic art in motion - nouveau noir belly dance - unique expression and performance from one of the main pioneers of the Gothic Belly Dance genre
Gothic Belly Dance, or "Raks Gothique" as many of its aficionados fondly call it, merges the styling of the Gothic or "Goth" subculture from the last 20 years with the beautiful expression of Middle Eastern Dance in both cabaret and tribal formats.
Current developments in belly dance have brought us a wide variety of fusions; merging cultures, social trends, and other established dance forms to create a new breed of belly dance. When properly blended, a fusion dance embraces the best traits of its parents, while speaking with its own unique voice. And an example of this creative union is Gothic Belly Dance.
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"Gothic Bellydance" DVD Gothic belly dance - Amazon.com
A blend of music videos and concert-style videos of bellydance performances by top US dance artists working in the new genre of "Gothic" bellydance. Gothic bellydance is the latest cool trend rising with the current wave of interest in dance. It creates images reminiscent of the Goth and Rock subcultures, and uses music that combines echoes of Goth and industrial styles with many ethnic flavors of modern world music. Gothic dance vocabulary fuses bellydance movement with break dance, Bollywood, flamenco, and other styles.
www.worlddancenewyork.com - www.gothicbellydance.com