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Belly Dance Styles #4 – Tribal
Tribal bellydance looks and sounds as though it should predate the other styles, but (as I explained in my earlier post), it’s an American invention, and a recent one at that! That doesn’t make it any less valid – after all, all dances have to start somewhere. Ballroom is a modern dance style and we don’t think any less of it – and the flamenco we know today owes a lot more to the 20th century than to any earlier times!
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Tribal Belly Dance – belly dance American Style
Many people assume that Tribal belly dance is an authentic Middle Eastern belly dance style. Not so! Tribal is American and proud of it. This article explains its origins.
There are now many “fusion” variants of the original American Tribal Style. Recognising that ATS itself is a modern invention, tribal dancers are very open to and accepting of new evolutions of the style.
The dance we know as the belly dance originated, it is believed, in the Middle East in ancient times dating back to the dawn of civilization. And while it has changed from region to region over its lengthy history, it has perhaps never changed to the extent that is seen today in the American Tribal Style Belly Dance.