Belly dance
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Belly dance is a Middle Eastern dance. It features movements of the hips and torso. A Western-coined exonym, it is also referred to as Middle Eastern dance or Arabic dance.
Belly dance at Taboo Show in Vancouver, Canada, 2011
Taheyya Kariokka performing
Shakira performing at Marina Bay Street Circuit, 2011
Belly dancer Nagwa Fouad
Ghawazi
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Ghawazi are female dancers who danced in return for money in public settings, and the streets and most of them originally came from Upper Egypt. There were male dancers as well, including men who perf
Belly dance
…European travellers in the Middle East such as Edward Lane and Flaubert wrote extensively of the dancers they saw there, including the Awalim and Ghawazi of Egypt. In his book, Andrew Hammond notes that practitioners of the art form agree that belly dance is lodged especially in Egyptian culture, he…
Group of Ghawazi dancers (c. 1880)
Postcard photograph of two dancing girls posing in a dance costume with the name of "Egyptian types and scenes" (c. 1900).
A khawal slave (dancing boy) from Upper Egypt dressed in a female dancing costume (c. 1870).