This post is part book review, part essay, and part personal reflection. This week, I finished reading the excellent "Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab" by A.J. Racy. This book has been on my 'to read' list for a long time, and I was finally spurred on to buy …
Bellydance and cultural ‘appreciation’
The great thing about learning an art form from another culture is that it can be a gateway to appreciating a culture other than your own. It can help you to see the world from other perspectives, and learn to see people from that culture as three-dimensional individuals, instead of through the stereotypes we grew …
Bellydance vs. Ballet: Comparing Apples to Anteaters
Ballet. It's a comparison that inevitably comes up when discussing any issue in the bellydance world. For a lot of people in the West, "dance" is ballet, and it's the standard against which all other dances get compared. Unfortunately, in discussions on bellydance, I don't believe that this comparison is very useful, because the two …
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