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00:00The more I discover belly dancing, the more I realize how much one can learn from other

00:11civilizations.

00:14And I sometimes resent the word culture because usually you don't get one culture per people,

00:24per civilization, per country.

00:29You don't get one culture in the Arabic world.

00:32You don't get one culture in the African or Pan-African world.

00:36You don't get one culture in the French Isles.

00:42You don't get one culture in the French departments.

00:46I find it very frustrating to have to summarize one country with one culture, if that makes

00:56sense, because it is the most restraining exercise in the world.

01:03As I'm going along learning about belly dance cultures, I strongly would urge you to Google

01:12it because belly dancing, as coined a long time ago as a term, is not exactly appropriate.

01:21You have so many muscles involved other than the muscle, the stomach areas and the waist.

01:27With belly dancing, one must learn to respect what sort of beauty comes out of civilizations

01:38like Moroccan, Egyptian and Turkish and Iraqi cultures.

01:46It is so varied.

01:49I was talking the other day to another Women's Institute group about how rich those many influences

02:01were.

02:02And I surprise myself every time I start thinking about it because really there is no end to

02:07discovering any sort of culture within any sort of dance, any sort of people within a country,

02:21if you like, within an area of the world, for instance, such as the Middle East, or Spain, or some

02:32part of Africa or another.

02:35Whenever you start learning a dance, you also learn about the people if you respect the item

02:43that you're approaching.

02:48You could just go there and learn about the movements that wouldn't just be enough because

02:55you wouldn't learn about the people, you wouldn't learn about the dance and why the dance came

03:02to be.

03:04You have this etymology of any sort of expression such as flamenco, such as valse musette in France,

03:13such as belly dance, one style or another.

03:17You have a lot of cultures in India, a lot of cultures in Asia, which are very rich areas

03:30of heritage.

03:32And it's a shame to just summarize everything with one movement or one set of movements or

03:39one term to globalize everything.

03:43When you have something like belly dance, there is so much to it.

03:48There is a lot of sensitivity and centuries of construction.

03:56It's like some kind of recipe.

03:59If you look at the history of, for instance, pancake and you wonder why it was and how it

04:05came to be.

04:06And you maybe realize that it was born from some poor family who couldn't afford to have

04:15meat, for instance.

04:17And decided that negimix would be all they could afford.

04:22And how did that develop into adding ingredients such as fruit and maybe ham, chives.

04:31And you have this great dish which could be, for instance, hundreds and hundreds of pounds

04:38at restaurants, which came from a very poor family.

04:43It's important to know where that came from, so to respect it better.

04:48It's the same as dance, it's the same as any language.

04:53And in belly dance, it's been a passion for me because I've discovered so much about it.

04:59How it traveled the world from Egypt, allegedly, to Morocco next door in North Africa, to Spain,

05:12to Turkey, to India, to China, and from China some influences were taken from there.

05:26How I find similarities between some of the British dancers, traditional British dancers,

05:31such as Morris dancing, those movements with the sticks and the napkins and the towels,

05:40whatever cloth they use, are used in these Dabke dancers, in, I believe, Egyptian Dabke,

05:49for instance, far, far away, by men, traditionally, those movements are exactly the same, with the

05:59sticks, with the towels, and the Greeks used a lot of those towel movements, those napkin

06:07movements, for instance, in restaurants, in their dances.

06:12Anthropologically, how it came about for men to be identifying to those movements with the

06:21same props across the planet.

06:25And if you look at the way dance movements are so similar across the world, you realize how

06:34much of mankind's DNA is being shared across the planet.

06:42And this is a testimony to how much alike most of us are, through music and movement, and how

06:50much of our intellectual, emotional, cultural DNA is shared across continents.

06:58And this is one reason why dance is not just movement for me, it's also an exploration of mankind

07:07and philosophy and the history of man.

07:13I'm trying to convey this into psychology of music, more generally speaking, because I believe

07:24that translating quantification and identifying movement to music can be used to identify and

07:36quantify music and its effect on the mind, more or less.

07:42And it's also a very interesting journey, as I explained, I never quite get tired of exploring

07:51things in belly dance.

07:54And so, when people have these prejudices about belly dance, they don't understand this much.

07:59They don't understand how, they don't understand how it's shared, how much of its luggage there

08:06is and how many traditions there are.

08:09And I wish people would just look up things on the internet before speaking out at times.

08:15Anyway that's just, um, I was getting a bit nostalgic about this because I still wonder

08:20about sometimes the anthropological issues in there.

08:29And if you're interested in the history of belly dance and its cultural impacts onto mankind

08:39or the cultural impacts it actually received and how it was shaped across the world.

08:47You should research it on the web and talk to somebody, uh, like a belly dancer or somebody

08:55who does lectures about it.

08:58And I think it's a great, great experience because when I do women's institutes, for instance,

09:03they're always very nice people in the UK.

09:07I get to, uh, express how much in awe of this art form I am and also about its history and

09:16also get to share the techniques and the fun of it.

09:20If you take a belly dance, remember, or any dance, remember to sort of, uh, research a bit

09:27on it.

09:28It's always fascinating.

09:29Anyway, have a good evening.

09:30Take care.

09:31Bye-bye.

09:32Take care, bye bye.

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