Many people often confuse Indian dance with belly dance. Theoretically, these two dances originated from different cultures. Indian dance originated in ancient India, and the traditional belly dance Middle East belly dance originated in ancient Egypt. Indian dance and belly dance belong to oriental dance, and Indian dance naturally blends into belly dance. Indian belly dance is unique among many belly dance styles. So what are the characteristics of Indian dance and belly dance? Get to know it with me!

Characteristics of Indian dance

For Indians, dance is not only an art, but also a religious significance. Indian dance stems from unparalleled piety, cleanliness and selflessness to God. Dancers use their fingers, arms, eyes, facial features and bodies to express and interpret everything in the universe. Therefore, some Indian dances are only performed for gods in temples, which adds a layer of mystery to Indian dances.

Basic movements: Indian dance has a lively rhythm, and there are about 50 movements in a 4-minute dance. Including gestures, eyes, inner thoughts and facial expressions, this changeable gesture can represent people's secular desires, and even represent natural scenery such as heaven and earth and natural phenomena such as day and night.

Before dancing, keep your legs bent, put your hands together and start the performance.

Open your hands and step forward with your feet. As the music starts, change the posture of your hand.

Started appearing in music? Knock, knock. Rhythm, start to change the pace of action.

Keep smiling.

The dance moves faster and faster, and the gestures are changing.

Clothing: In India, only married women usually wear saris up to 6 meters long. Besides dancers, even very young girls can dress like this. Sometimes, dancers also wear Punjabi: pants+knee-length skirts+long scarves. There are many styles of trousers, wide and tight. Scarves are tied in different ways. You can wear it around your neck at ordinary times and tie it around your waist when dancing to increase the sense of lines. Punjabi has become a fashion. This style of clothes became popular in Japan last year.

Accessories: The long and sharp ornament on the forehead is called BINDI. The traditional BINDI is very big, covered with diamonds and precious stones. But what is popular now is concise style. Girls usually wear them when they get married or dance. A circle of bare diamonds above the eyebrows can also be called Bindi, which means good luck.

Red dot: A red dot between the eyebrows. When dancing, in order to increase the brightness, you can also use small diamonds instead of traditional red dots. If it is a Muslim-themed dance, you can only use a small diamond, because the red dot is a symbol of Hinduism. When not dancing, usually only married women can order red dots.

Bracelet: In Indian dance, gesture is a very important dance language, so dancers care about bracelets. Wear a lot, 20 at most.

Ankle: In Indian dance, there are a lot of stamping movements, which are crisp and fast-paced, so toes are very important. It is said that some dancers are trained to move only a small muscle on their feet so that only one foot bell rings.

Hand shape: An important element of Indian dance is hand shape. There are about 100 kinds of gestures, each of which has a specific meaning, some represent beauty, some represent peace, some represent anger, and some even represent ugliness. Indians believe that gestures are a symbol of communication between man and god, and different gods like different gestures.

Smile: In the process of dancing, the dancer's heartfelt smile is consistent from beginning to end, expressing joy and peace of mind.

Head movement: The head moves rhythmically to the left and right.

Waist movement: the swing of the waist makes the body beautiful.

Foot movement: toes, heels, stamping. The movements of Indian dance feet are also very expressive.

Eyes: The essence of Indian dance is to follow the eyes when dancing.

Indian dance sign language is unpredictable. For example, finger and facial gestures are used to express beauty, and lotus gestures are common gestures when performing for gods. Gestures not only dazzle the audience, but also reflect the active thinking of performers, which is a real mental exercise. Clever and handy. ?

The jumping posture represents the Indian god bird? Picaco? . When jumping, pay attention to keeping your eyes on your hands. This kind of jumping posture is not only beautiful, but also can practice body balance and improve bone density, especially the strength of hips and pelvis.

Unlike other dances, Indian dance requires dancers to be in a semi-squatting position. This posture is good for thigh and hip lines!

Want to have all kinds of eyes? Learn from Indian dance! Keep your head still and turn your eyes in all directions. Remember to keep your eyes open when turning.

Raise your heels and stand on tiptoe. The action of Indian dancing feet will make you have beautiful calves and ankles.

During dancing, always keep your shoulders flat, and turning your head can also help maintain the cervical spine.

You must keep your back straight when dancing Indian dance. This explains why Indian beauty has the sexiest back in the world.

Characteristics of belly dance

Belly dance is a very feminine dance, which is characterized by swinging the abdomen and vigorously dancing the arms and chest with the ever-changing fast pace. These movements become belly dancing, which is unbreakable in traditional dance techniques. Belly dance must be performed on the smooth floor, dancing barefoot, accompanied by music, with extremely fast and complicated emotional body movements and fast' dance steps', just like foxtrot in Europe and America.

Of course, belly dancing can be solo without accompaniment, and the unique romantic Arabic music is more dynamic. Common accompaniment instruments such as UT piano, Ney, Debrec tambourine, dulcimer, etc. Among them, the percussion tambourine is particularly important. When dancers perform the unique skill of twisting the waist and dancing the belly, the addition of drums is dynamic.

Belly dance also combines other props, such as snakes, swords, veils, candles, flames and so on. The appearance of these props may be influenced by ancient belly dancing and mysterious religious ceremonies. Some countries in the Middle East still respect these highly dramatic and mysterious performances. Especially the intricate snake skills, snakes symbolize men and women, hermaphroditic snakes, very strange, full of Arab mystery.

As a beautiful body art, belly dance creates elegant, sexy and feminine dance language through the rotation of pelvis, buttocks, chest and arms and dazzling crotch swing, and gives full play to the feminine beauty of women's bodies. It is a full-body exercise, which can make your legs, abdomen, shoulders and neck fully move, thus improving the elasticity and flexibility of your body. The movement of the arm is very important, it can express the elegance and exquisiteness of the dancer. It is not only a sport, but also a spiritual bond between mind and body. You can be as happy and free as butterflies, waves and running water. When you dance, your inner goddess makes you more elegant, powerful and sexy. It is a dance for women to explore themselves and explore the body and inner world.

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