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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhwuwkEfwdI[/youtube]
A French friend once told me that dancing was the vertical expression of horizontal intentions. I can’t dance. So, if I need to express such intentions, I have to resort to other means! But Tahiya Carioca sure can. And the way she expresses it is beyond sexy, and without being in the least bit vulgar. The more I watch her videos, the more I wonder why I ever thought she was. It must have been my silly French convent school in Beirut that made me seriously prejudiced against belly dance then. Too bad. I missed out on seeing her in real life when I could have.
Tagged : Beirut, belly dance, convent schools, egypt, tahiya carioca 
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August 23, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Astonishing… thanks so much for sharing these treasures… and your friend’s remark about dancing is…divine!
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August 23, 2010 at 5:14 pm
yes, his name was jean-pierre and he was french consul in belfast. i wonder if he’s still alive. he was quite a bit older than me. wonderful man and great fisherman. we often went fishing together.
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August 24, 2010 at 2:29 am
nice one. The bellydancers of the past, were truly artists. Nowadays, its like striptease. thx for sharing.
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August 24, 2010 at 3:24 am
yes, you are right and tahiya was just amazing. too bad i didn’t understand that when i was young.
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August 25, 2010 at 4:48 pm
when rain makes it impossible to walk, i listen to amro diab and ragheb alameh and dance until my feet hurt. pleasure and exercice combined!
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August 26, 2010 at 12:43 am
tu as de la chance de savoir dancer. xxx
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August 30, 2010 at 11:51 am
My sister and I made a pact that if we ever lived in the same city we would take belly dancing classes together. I find it freeing and sensual – and have always wanted to try it. Wonderful video!
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August 30, 2010 at 12:02 pm
i wish i could dance. i would also take lessons but i have no sense of rythm.
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September 8, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Thought I’d add this link, from the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-secret-of-male-dancefloor-success-is-all-above-the-waist-2073174.html ‘The secret of male dancefloor success is all above the waist’, whence Jeremy Laurance reports on the findings of a study revealing that ‘upper body movement, not fancy footwork, is key to attracting women’. Guess we can allow for generalizations here.
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September 8, 2010 at 1:52 pm
how amusing. i read it this morning, or perhaps yesterday. i’ll have to feature your male dancer as my dancer of the month. perhaps for september 🙂
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September 10, 2010 at 10:24 am
How interesting! Looking forward to all your posts, including the ones on Oriental dance. Might I add a link to an illuminating article by Dr. A. Shay? My own interest in solo improvised dance in Middle Eastern contexts – performed by both male and female dancers – is that of an academic and an aesthete, and one with a pronounced Levantine bend
http://artira.com/danceforum/articles/shay_maledancer.html
Kind regards.
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September 11, 2010 at 6:12 pm
My late grandmother, who taught school in Alexandria as a beautiful and adventurous young woman defying her rigid DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) mother adored belly dancing, but it wasn’t until I watched this YouTube that I understood why. Thanks, Anissa, and hope to see you in Paris soon. xoAlec
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September 11, 2010 at 11:28 pm
i wonder who were the great dancers of her time. i wish i’d been less priggish about it when i was young. i may have been able to see tahiya carioca and samia gamal live. i am sure they performed in beirut. may come to paris early december. enjoyed ur review in t mag. made me want to go there. xxx