The Middle Eastern dance - raqs sharqi or raqs baladi - in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen - is called belly dance or belly dancing in the western countries. It is sometimes called 'oriental dance' or 'Egyptian dance' in Europe.
The dancers in belly dancing use the movements of every muscle group of their bodies. The dance starts with slow beat music but it become fast and goes to climax before ringing the final curtain down. So the dancers in belly dancing are required to energetic and flexible.
Traditionally, belly dancing is the dance for both the sexes, but the dance is growing extremely popular among women of the western countries. The dance offers the dancers complete opportunity to revel their muscle movements. It's getting popular among women because the dance helps spotlighting the feminine sensuality. The dance is more appreciated when it is performed by mature curvaceous women.
Traditionally, belly dancing is the dance for both the sexes, but the dance is growing extremely popular among women of the western countries. The dance offers the dancers complete opportunity to revel their muscle movements. It's getting popular among women because the dance helps spotlighting the feminine sensuality. The dance is more appreciated when it is performed by mature curvaceous women.
Belly Dancing has grown extremely popular in the Australia, Europe, United Kingdom, and United States. The western women are making therapeutic use of belly dancing. As belly dancing require a lot of muscle power, most of the western women approach belly dance for exercising, strengthening body-mind-soul, building fine figures, etc.
The therapeutic use of dance movements for the social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development of dancers is termed as "dance therapy." Dance therapy began as a profession in the 1940s with the work of Marian Chace. Dance therapy is a psychotherapy that dance therapists use to treat many kinds of emotional problems, intellectual deficits, and life-threatening illnesses. Dance therapy is growing popular at psychiatric hospitals, day care centers, mental health centers, prisons, special schools, etc.
Belly dancing is one the best dance forms that is often used as dance therapy. Belly dancing is usually preferred by dance therapists because the dance literally makes dancers exercising through its tough muscle movements.
Belly dancing has grown fanatically popular as dance therapy in Barcelona, Spain. There are a number of Barcelona belly dancers using belly dancing as dance therapy to treat several psychological and health problems. Belly dancing dance therapy is helpful to a wide range of patients-from psychiatric patients to those with cancer to lonely elderly people. The dance therapy is often used by dancers used express emotions regarding their traumatic experiences that they traumatic literally talk about.
