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I agree, and the main thing that bothers me is that they are all, either implicitly or explicitly, labeled belly dancing. I enjoy alot of it, and I agree that a show with alot of variety can be very entertaining. But much of this fusion stuff is not "belly dancing". Not to mention that somehow the folkdances get implicitly lumped in as just a variant of belly dance, which they are not: Saiidi folk dance is not belly dance. Moroccan Schikaat is not belly dance, Khaleegy women's dance is not belly dancing, Nubian folk dance is not belly dance, Bharanatyam is not belly dance, Tunisian pot dance is not belly dance, Persian classical dance is not belly dance.

I'm all for long but accurate titles: IAMED presents Oriental dance, assorted North African and Middle Eastern folk dances, and Middle Eastern-inspired fusion.

Sedonia