There are things about belly dancing oriental aka I never could understand, and is the insistence on locating the origins of belly dancing in the Old Egypt by I do not know who exactly in the same oriental dance.
If anything, I'm specializing in race history, is in ancient times and particularly in towns and civilizations "non-classic" I go, that ancient Egypt is a subject that touched almost by necessity. Besides, I've asked two years ago in a paper on music in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Overall, the archaeological evidence and testimony indicate that the dance in ancient Egypt was anything but belly.
In Ancient Egypt, how little can be inferred from the evidence or archaeological sites and written and visual sources, is that there could be two types of dance at least: the sacred dance and folk dance.
of folk dance is known to be less, not to say almost nothing, among other things there are few references to date graphics or written, but surely there was very small for almost implied terms and the nature of all human dance in everyday settings, especially taking into account the African roots.
Of which there is some evidence if it has been extended until today, although obviously much modified over the centuries, is the dance of the shepherds poles, although it appears somewhat later onset than thought-Saite period.
sacred dance, the best known, is dance in contexts obviously sacred apparently following preset guidelines, probably with a predetermined choreography by some preexisting songs. As some of you know, in ancient Egypt and there were songs with musical notations.
This dance was acrobatic, and supposedly repetitive motion.
was often the dancers were scantily clad.
The music that accompanied it apparently (in the last decade have clear indications as well) was more a rope drum. What one has observed is the survival of elements of the Old Egypt, in the late Middle Ages and the extension of the Ottoman Empire, the former substrate elements intermingled with the invasion, including Oriental or belly dancing together. One of these elements are zaghatts or castanets or cymbals, which were of early Egyptian invention, and is known today that the popular way used in some festivals such as the Nile River Flooding zaghatts Speaking of, this item was almost as soon extended its inception in Mesopotamia, including in the musical creations of the area.
belly dance or Oriental is not in ancient Egypt, but in the Near and Middle East, and even some parts of Anatolia. In the Neolithic Mesopotamia are for example some instrumental outfits consisting of a belt of shells or bones in the hip place, like a rattle, which shows a need to work on moving her hips.
If you want information about music in ancient Egypt, I recommend the study and CD, with reconstructed instruments including, for Rafael Pérez Arroyo. Very good, I carry the style of music of the time.
