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Belly Dance

We had our friends visiting from US of A.. and wanted to taste the flavour of middle east - dance and food..

For me too this was a first time at this place..the dancer was very versatile and great entertainier..

As Wikipedia says:

Belly dance is a Western term for a traditional Middle Eastern dance form. Some American devotees refer to it simply as "Middle Eastern Dance."

In the Arabic language it is known as raqs sharqi (رقص شرقي; literally "oriental dance") or sometimes raqs baladi (رقص بلدي; literally "national" or "folk" dance). The term "raqs sharqi" may have originated in Egypt. In Greece and the Balkans, belly dance is called tsiftetelli (τσιφτετέλι).

The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_dance