THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

SUMMARY 1:
The dance of the stomach is a dance that combines traditional elements of Half East together with others of the North of África.

The exact origin this dance way is constant reason it debates among those who are interested in this dance, due mainly to the scarce investigation carried out in this respect.

Most of the studies have carried out them the own dancers, in an intent to understand their origins.

It comes from a dance of religious type that you/they practiced the priestesses of the temples formerly.

It is characterized by their soft and flowing movements, dissociating and coordinating the different parts of the body at the same time.

All the movements of this dance are related with the nature.

For the dance of the stomach it is used all type of music of the countries of Half East practically.

ATTIRE

Their creation is due to the Vaudeville with its imaginative representations of the harem, to the burlesque gender and Hollywood at the end of last century, The dancers were tattooed the goddess's of the sexuality images, as much in the thighs as in the arms.

THE HEALTH AND THE ORIENTAL DANCE:

The benefits of the oriental dance are so much physical as mental. The dance is a good cardiovascular exercise; he/she helps to improve as much the flexibility as the force. It is centered mainly in the muscles of the torso, although also improvement the force in the legs. 

THE DANCE OF THE STOMACH IN THE POPULAR CULTURE

Numerous musical videotapes have appealed to choreographies inspired by the oriental dance. Artists like Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Nelly Furtado and Jessica Simpson has included it in some of its video clips, as well as Sarah Brightman in its album Harem, although it is with the Colombian artist of Lebanese origin Shakira with the one who more he/she usually associates.