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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"belly dance"”.
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Walk Like an Egyptian: Belly Dance past and present practice in England
How Belly Dance practitioners in England construct a sense of self-identity, social-identity and identity-in-practice in a border-crossing Belly Dance ethnoscape is of interest for this research project. What kinds of identities-in-practice do Belly Dancers in England construct in order to …
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Rhythmic Layering: The Baladi Project
This thesis began with a program, the belly dance studio; the dance inspired the architecture through the translation of Arabic music into physical measurement as well as less tangible attributes that shaped the final design. There was an attempt to find a link between dance and architecture. Both …
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The Dynamic Body Image and the Moving Body: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
… styles of movement and performance: contemporary dance, Middle-eastern dance (or belly dance) and aerobics (instructors). The investigation considered core propositions described by Schilder with respect to the role of movement and the body image, to explore structuralization from the point of …
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
… in Chicago and shows how the presence of dancers performing the <em>danse du ventre </em>on the Midway Pliasance was turned into a flashpoint of controversy by the popular press. This controversy would be key to the development of Little Egypt in the years to follow. Chapter two follows …