Aneirin
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Being involved in this dance the past few years has prevented me from buying into the predominantly American fear of all things Islamic, as I am involved with the arts of the region, what the common folk do far apart from the war mongers and this involvement has caused me to research the people deeper and see the beauties that exist and have always existed. That is why I do not buy into the hate of Muslims often exhibited down there in the P&R forum, for I know there is more to the people of the region than hate. We do in fact owe a lot to the Muslim world, for it has given us many inventions that we use today, let alone our numeral system which Fibonacci adapted from Indo Arabian for us. I believe in this world of tensions between two worlds and their promoters, peace and understanding of each other can be gained as always through art.
As far as western tastes are concerned, the west has always it seems been a bit stuck up it's own ass, and sexually repressed and perhaps the progress in recent decades in this respect has moved too fast for some and the problem is that speed of change, for the Islamic world being an ancient world, even long before Islam plods at a slow pace, whereas we race along, so what differences we have, many even in our own countries cannot handle yet, but all we see is the popular face, which is often not the reality for all.
But why does it have to be about sexuality all the time, as it seems we are obsessed with it, isn't that an indicator of repression itself, for we are only recently in historic terms, 1950's onward starting to discover and accept ourselves for what we are. And in what we are doing the wrongs we see in other countries, isn't that more about we are seeing what we were and feeling disgust rather than what they are.
Perhaps it is we are obsessed with sex, we have all bought into Sex sells, so we perhaps have cheapened ourselves to be no more than commodities that our society seems so keen on selling all the time, given our capitalist mentality.
Perhaps through the commodity of sex, we have lost much of what it means when males and females engage in art such as dance together, we male and female complement each other, in belly dance, women are more joint mobile whilst men are more muscular mobile, we complement each other, both different, but the same, perhaps in our discovery of our freedom of expression after so many years (centuries ?) of societal oppression, men and women dancing together, all we see is by the flaunting of obvious exiting bits is a prelude to sex.
As human beings we have the ability to turn off that mentality, but with many, it seems have lost that or at least have forgotten that we are not animals and do not need to be shagging every time we come into close proximity with the opposite sex. In dance classes, I am always at the front and that through choice, so women if they feel uncomfortable can laugh at me wiggling my ass. One begginer tried it once, a woman threatened by my prescence, she complained and got told if she did not like it, leave, for this is a unisex dance in a unisex world and many males do have the ability to not think with their dicks. On a personal note, she was not my type anyway, bit of a stuck up munter who saw belly dance as female only and that I cannot accept in anyone dance or not, a closed mind, no matter what apparent attractivity they may or may not have.
But as to belly dance much of what I dance to, is Shabbi if from Egypt and Turkish Pop, a favourie being Tarkan, just watch his moves in this well tune ;
Kuzu Kuzu by Tarkan
As to when I may dance in public, well my current indicator is the dance shirt I am making, twelve thousand rings in so far.
< Message edited by Aneirin -- 6/20/2011 6:51:33 AM >
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