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Women love belly dance. We fall in love with the music, sequins, glitter, femininity and beauty. Here, I have begun to collect the thoughts, feelings, and writings of women who dance. In the following pages you will find an elegant collage of words that express the meaning of belly dance.

I hope to expand this project. If you would like to contribute, please write me at: wingeddancer123@hotmail.com. I will post anything you want without editing. You can include your name, e-mail, website, or any other information you like. Or you can be anonymous

Here are dancer's voices:

 

 

Unashamed Bellydance

by Shir-El

 

With every long note memories become motion

Sensuous swirls of feeling move- tear from my mind

Eloquent stories unfurl due to music-bewitching me to move, to dance

With every drum rattle joy breaks free into motion

Sweet sweat swimming down my back, moving my hips

New connections form from me to them, and music to me

With every winding song my body translates notes into motion

Lovely language of lust, devotion, fear, and spirituality

Unknown memories glance into my eyes as the body undulates

With dance I break free

From time

From space

With dance I stand still

In a moment lost long ago or one to come

In a place I have yet to see or have been before

This dance washes away pain, joy, anger, and belief

And bring forth feelings only the bellydancer will know

Sensuous, Eloquent, Sweet, New, Lovely, Unknown

These are but a glance at the feelings of bellydance

As many sparkles a diamond throws, bellydance has new feelings to offer

 

 

 

Healer. Friend.

by Nadia Adler

 

Heals broken bones and wounded spirits that come to it's fount to drink. God inspired,

love impelled, catalyst for growth in a world hostile to all things powerfully divine.

Feminine. It is the ancient dance for modern woman. Therapist, lover and friend. It asks

not age, size or reason. It calls your name to come to the alter of life. Reach deep within.

 

Bring out into the shameless light womanhood. Strong, free, unhindered by steely eye,

unstopped by ruthless hand, and ungentle touch.

 

Release the fears, entrapment, questioning glare. Let go mine arm and release me to be,...

and to be...and to be...into this shameless light the God creature that I am.

 

Ask me not to cover my belly, to cover my head, to cover my eyes as you brutalize this

world that she created.

 

Let me dance for now. Until I come back and take over, and love. Take it back from

your bloody hands, and bring it back in to my eternal womb. But for now let me dance.