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Badia Masabni (Arabic: بديعة مصابني, born Wadiha Masabni (Arabic: وديعة مصابني; 1 February 1892 – 23 July 1974) was a belly dancer, singer, actress, night club owner and businesswoman considered as the developer of modern belly dancing, [1] [2] by bringing the Western and Hollywood-esque vibe into it, after living for several years in the Americas since the age of seven.
The Bellydance Superstars, sometimes called BDSS, first toured in conjunction with the Lollapalooza 2003 music festival. Since then, the troupe has completed several full circuits of the world, infusing new cultural dance styles into the shows along the way.
Belly dance today is a dance used by various artists among which are Rihanna, Beyoncé, Fergie, however the greatest representative of this dance is the Colombian singer Shakira, [38] who led this dance to position it as her trademark, with her songs Whenever Wherever and Ojos Así.
The teaching sequence breaks down and demonstrates five authentic belly dance moves: the hip isolations ‘maya hips’ and its reverse, the ‘Egyptian figure-eight’, the ‘cabaret shimmy’, the ‘gawazzi step’, and the ‘side-step arm-sweep’. . The performance sequence combines these moves into a lively and fun belly dance choreography.
She began belly dancing in the early 1960s. In 1976, the composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab wrote an entire musical piece exclusively for her belly dancing show titled "Amar Arbatashar" (Full Moon [ a ] ), it was her transition from traditional oriental dance to a choreographed stage performances.
That same year was the first time Sema visited Japan, doing a dance tour; giving workshops and performances. She was the first Turkish-style Belly dancer to visit the country and promote the style and Romani dance there. [1] She was interviewed by NHK for a documentary about Belly dance, Sulukule and Istanbul. Sema_Yildiz_Gallipoli
American Tribal Style belly dance's movements are inspired by folkloric dances of the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and India. ATS is a method of improvisational choreography, using a physical vocabulary of movements and cues allowing the dancers to improvise while dancing.
Tsifteteli (Greek: τσιφτετέλι) or Çiftetelli, is a rhythm and belly dance of Anatolia and the Balkans (particularly Greece). [1] [2] In Turkish the word means "double stringed", taken from the violin playing style that is practiced in this kind of music.