WOW! thanks for all the info.& the video clips, how very kind. Now I understand. How fun! Have you been doing this for awhile? And sure, honored to be friends H1
Hi, sorry this is so late... It's an Americanized form but is now danced in other countries.. Tribal belly dance has its roots in folkloric and traditional belly dance, and is a recent innovation in the dance. It's really taken off within the last ten to twenty years. It has spread from the West to the East coast and evolved as it went. There are many flavors of tribal, from fusion (although almost all tribal is technically fusion) to ATS. American Tribal Style belly dance uses "structured improvisation" - the dancers use small nonverbal cues to tell each other what they're going to do next. It does not use choreography (except on rare and specific occasions). The beauty of ATS is in the synchronization of the dancers and the elegant and powerful movement vocabulary. Here are some examples: Tribal Fusion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnYYK...8202DDAA642C8F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnVI...F8202DDAA642C8 F&index=1 American Tribal Style Belly Dance: (improv, all done by non-verbal cues... not choreographed) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw5R...CC81F3&index=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEzgJ...98F49AA0CC81F3 Thanks for your interest.
Hi Tribal Bellydancer-- I saw you reply on a thread...Please can you tell me what is a tribal bellydance? Is that in Egypt? Thanks!
