Oriental dance, commonly known as belly dance, belly dance for women solo. Lebanon and other countries in the male belly dancers usually a dance music, but see a beautiful woman wearing a white veil, holding a metal cymbal, body ring, necklaces and other ornaments, chest high, half covered half-naked. Audience fixed eyes to see, the actor seems to be naked abdomen is actually wearing a layer of transparent nylon veil, surrounded by fluttering bars, gold hip belt.
At this time, the dancer opened her hands, stretching her waist, twisting her hips and breasts, the movement is cheerful and bright, fully displaying the beauty of the female curves. The audience, along with the melodious Arabic music, rhythmically clapped and high-fived. The melody of the music speeds up, and the twisting of the waist, hips and buttocks accelerates. When the music stops, the dancer takes a half-step forward with her right foot, lands on her toes, and twists her hips to the front, making an appearance, and the audience applauds again.
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The Characteristics of Dance
The dance movements in a dance work should also have a certain degree of skill, and the dancers should have the ability to perform difficult skills such as jumping, spinning, flipping, softness and control, etc. However, performing difficult skillful movements in a dance work is not an end in itself, but rather a way to express the character's thoughts and feelings, However, performing difficult technical movements in a dance work is not an end in itself, but a means to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters and to shape their character and spirit.
If in a dance work, the means as the end, the actor's skill is not to reflect the life, the expression of the character's thoughts and feelings as the prerequisite for its existence, or not to the content of the dance to select the appropriate dance movement skills, but to show the actor's mastery of the dance skills to start.
That will make the dance works due to the content and form of the disconnect, or the lack of artistic integrity, and fell into failure, the dancer's skill itself has been reduced to acrobatic skill performance, and the loss of the basic character of the dance art.
Reference: Dance Characteristics - Baidu Encyclopedia