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Laziza · 09-09-2007, 10:22 AM

Kahaz and Shashy,

There is no need to take my words as an offence. I have already said, it is MY opinion, based on my background and experience.

There is a room for all of us. But as my mother says the STAGE has its own limitations and requirements. Ballet dancers are beautiful and no doubt slim even when they are 45. But there is no 45 years old Juliet or Odette. The stage and by the way the audience would never accept that.
But why do they accept that in the oriental dance(Middle Eastern dance, whatever, I also dance Central Asian -Silk Road dances, so lets call it oriental dance now)? If the costumes are so open and even too risque? Maybe they accept that because they are ready to see fat and not well-shaped bodies of the BELLY-dance? The dance that it seems has a tend to become a dance style with no stage and aesthetic limitations. The dance that does not seems for clients to be even a professional dance at all and they can not understand why they need to pay 150 dollars for 15 minutes of fat-shaking.

I do not say that I am skinny like a model and I am the best example. I am not.

I do not know about the diffinitions and terms you use here to describe the differences in the dance world and thank you, Kahaz, for the explanation.
But I know that dividing:
I. dance business.
1. the stage dancers - professional dancers, that have the education, age, shape and abilities to make a good show. I do not call them professionals just because they make income from dancing business. I call them professionals because the stage accepts them.
2. teachers - former or current dancers, that have enough experience and talant to teach.
3. producers, sponsors or whatever you call them. people that organize and produce shows, festivals, haflas. They might be dancers, former dancers, teachers, but the fact that they work with these events doesn't make the stage dancers.
II. dance hobby

And again. I do not want to hurt anybody's feelings. If I did, I am sorry.

I'll keep posting pictures and will not offtop here. It is already offtopic and just because I dare to say my thoughts here.

09-09-2007, 10:22 AM	#132
Laziza I could get used to this! Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 54	Kahaz and Shashy, There is no need to take my words as an offence. I have already said, it is MY opinion, based on my background and experience. There is a room for all of us. But as my mother says the STAGE has its own limitations and requirements. Ballet dancers are beautiful and no doubt slim even when they are 45. But there is no 45 years old Juliet or Odette. The stage and by the way the audience would never accept that. But why do they accept that in the oriental dance(Middle Eastern dance, whatever, I also dance Central Asian -Silk Road dances, so lets call it oriental dance now)? If the costumes are so open and even too risque? Maybe they accept that because they are ready to see fat and not well-shaped bodies of the BELLY-dance? The dance that it seems has a tend to become a dance style with no stage and aesthetic limitations. The dance that does not seems for clients to be even a professional dance at all and they can not understand why they need to pay 150 dollars for 15 minutes of fat-shaking. I do not say that I am skinny like a model and I am the best example. I am not. I do not know about the diffinitions and terms you use here to describe the differences in the dance world and thank you, Kahaz, for the explanation. But I know that dividing: I. dance business. 1. the stage dancers - professional dancers, that have the education, age, shape and abilities to make a good show. I do not call them professionals just because they make income from dancing business. I call them professionals because the stage accepts them. 2. teachers - former or current dancers, that have enough experience and talant to teach. 3. producers, sponsors or whatever you call them. people that organize and produce shows, festivals, haflas. They might be dancers, former dancers, teachers, but the fact that they work with these events doesn't make the stage dancers. II. dance hobby And again. I do not want to hurt anybody's feelings. If I did, I am sorry. I'll keep posting pictures and will not offtop here. It is already offtopic and just because I dare to say my thoughts here.