There was dance at the beginning. Mankind was communicating with body language before speaking. Movements increased and after compound movements came out; in time these movements turn into dance. Primitive human preferred to show emotions arising from his
There was dance at the beginning. Mankind was communicating with body language before speaking. Movements increased and after compound movements came out; in time these movements turn into dance. Primitive human preferred to show emotions arising from his fight to nature by dancing. Humans told happiness, sadness, anger, passion, love, war, peace and competition with dance. While they are expressing their lives with dance, natural events and the story of humans journey in earth took an important place in dance language. Humans used their bellies, hips and waists to symbolize the natural events with their bodies. They invented shaking their body to imitate an earthquake; tossing their hips suddenly to tell a storm and waving their body to show a twister. The fist seeds of the belly dance were planted like this hundreds of years ago.
The belly dance appeared in the Arabian Peninsula about 2000 B.C to tell the story of humankind in earth. Women give birth to humans so women were to tell this story to the world. Pains of pregnancy and bodies contracting and trembling during birth formed in dance language. Invasion and immigration during history helped belly dance to spread all over the world. Anatolia met belly dance during Seljuk period. Anatolia created a new way of belly dance with Arabian culture as it already has got similar dance figures.
Anatolia bring belly dance together with its own traditional dances and gave it an important place in main dancing trends. That is why belly dance is from inside of us, it is truly ours.