WICKED STEPS DANCE STUDIO.

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Basha Raks participates in Girls Night Out being held on Friday, April 8 from 7-9pm at Tranquil Garden Retreat, Oshawa


Belly Dance for Every Body

Belly dance is one of the oldest dance forms dating back to the 11th century. It is, primarily, a celebratory dance performed for women by women. It has evolved over the years to include such variety and style to suit every dancer.From the earthy "Tribal" dance to the classical "Egyptian" and even 'Gothic" and "Fusion" there is genre for everyone.

Belly dance allows women to express themselves through movement and to reclaim their identities and a sense of inner power. It teaches women to love the body they are in and encourages and promotes self-esteem within a supportive, social enviroment.

Sadly during world wars women in the oringinating middle eastern countries, working to feed thier families, brought the dance out of their women only enviroments and before foreign men. Eventually the movie industry used the dance but altered the costumes and sexualized belly dance. This existing sexual taboo of a folk dance still prevails today in the general public despite nearly a century's passing. Once experienced however, myths disolve and the true healing, empowering, joyous and communicative nature of the dance prevails.

Basha Raks hold the utmost respect for the dance, each other and the audiences we perform for. We never promte belly dance as a dance of enticement but a dance of celebration and joy!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Basha Raks Withdrawl


My fellow dancers and I will often get together 2 or so evenings a week when we are working on a new routine. As well as the hard work and sweat we put into a new dance we also laugh (or snort on my part!) joke and eat our way through the evening. When we have finished the new dance we go back to to our regular routines but after a few nights we find ourselves suffering from Basha Raks withdrawl!

While we say at the time we are glad the routine is finished it is not long before we are sending emails to each other saying how we miss our evenings together and maybe it's time to start thinking about a new dance. After all if we want to be serious about getting out there for different events we need a good repertoire of dances right?

Our next event is at the end of this month so I think we will be getting together to brush up on our existing dances. Hopefully it won't be too long before we are starting up a new routine even if there is a lot of cursing, missed steps and much laughing along the way! Tabia has great ideas for our next routine. It will be darker, more tribal and I can't wait to get in there and start practicing.

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