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I have also been reading up on the history of belly dance, and it turns out that traditionally it's a type of dance that was done in the household - not for public performance - and that originally people would just wear their regular clothes, with a scarf tied around the hips so you could see what they were doing.
For our performance we were directed to wear something "appropriate for your style," which is interesting, as I do not know what is appropriate for which style. Nor do I know what style I'm even doing, or how to tell the difference. Googling is no help in this.
So I've decided to go back to the root. 'Baladi' belly dance is essentially the folk dance of large parts of the Middle East, and Baladi itself means 'country' - the dance of my country. And if it was originally done in normal clothes, I figured I would just wear something that I might wear normally.
With this in mind, I was just browsing as you do, when I saw this skirt
and I thought 'oh... that's very memento mori isn't it? Very appropriate for a song about failing to reconnect with old friends because time is slipping away from you both and there's so much else to do.'
So the skirt was a must. And I figured I could put a dark green strappy top under it, and top it with
this nice crochet crop top. Which together would make an outfit I would totally wear in real life but I hope will look fancy enough to dance in.
One of the other dancers in my group has given me a hot pink belt with bead dangly bits, and I have a triangular scarf that will match the crop top, so I'll put that combination around my hips, and I think it will be a strong look.
Not quite sure what to do with my hair. I don't want to wear anything that looks like I have help in balancing this sword, but I do want some kind of headband to hold my hair out of my eyes. Some kind of silk flowers on a band?
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Date: 2024-08-12 08:45 am (UTC)From:Thank you! It's a nice warm material too, which will be a blessing in November :)
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