Belly Dancing
Belly dancing has deep roots from Arabs, but there too is a fusion with the Kurds. In the Ottoman Empire, Kurds were mixed into the culture and certain aspects of this dance have been inspired from Kurdish traditions (such as the Kurdish Dance) and added to the dance to create what we know now.
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Famous quotes containing the words belly and/or dancing:
“Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Dance is bigger than the physical body. ...When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.”
—Judith Jamison (b. 1943)