Friday, October 2, 2009

ITP: THE ART OF DANCE: PART 4 : METAL BELLY DANCING

Last July, I actually, spontaneously, started a new feature on this journal, (ITP) "The Art Of Dance", very spur of the moment, to document how dance is consolidated with MUSIC, specifically metal culture. THE ITP ART OF DANCE feature specifies the unconventional vs. norm of said cultural and musical style of dance.
We're going to KEEP this feature, as it really it is more relevant to METAL that one might think.
I will return with MORE ITP REVIEWS, despite the frustration over spacing also DAMNED IN BLACK, HUMANITY IS DOOMED, and NOTES FROM THE EXTREME METAL UNDERGROUND in the next few weeks.
Soo, THE ART OF DANCE PART 4 features METAL: BELLY DANCING. Yep, belly dancing is an ancient middle eastern traditional dance, with hip swiveling, belly flexing, sensual dance moves, a very unique style of dancing. The below videos feature BOTH METAL and middle eastern style belly dancing. Enjoy. The middle eastern music featured during these belly dances should not be ignored, it's all percussion and no vocals, awesome tribal percussion with traditional middle eastern instruments, and yes, this is where ravers get the tribal or jungle sub genres from. BTW, the choreography for belly dancing is very technical and at best synced well with fast, rhythmic percussive music. (FIRST VIDEO BELLY DANCER SADIE, SECOND BELLY DANCER, METAL A HEADBANGERS JOURNEY, THIRD BELLY DANCERS DARK VEIL, FOURTH BELLY DANCER: WILLOW (WOODSTOCK, NY-BELLY DANCING TO METALLICA): FIFTH BELLY DANCER (BLACK METAL BELLY DANCER IN THE SNOW-MUSIC: Blodhevn, by Asmegin):
More METAL BELLY DANCING COMING UP-STAY METAL, STAY BRUTAL-\m/ -l-