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THE MOST ANCIENT DANCE
A trip in the time
Researching the origins
Gypsies
Europeans and the Orient
THE SEVEN VEILS OF ISHTAR
Dance and human rites
Dance like life
Dance and daily life
The relation between femininity and fertilty
The Babylon Goddess Ishtar
The enigma of the Song of the Songs
Meaning of the veil
Christianity and Paganism
The dance of the Snake
SALOME'
Dance and prostitution
Shadows and lights upon sexuality
The story of Salome'
The dance in the ancient Greece
Dance as sinonymous of prostitution
A traumatic impact of cultures
STORIES OF TRAVELS
The colonization
The fascination of the Orient
From dream to reality
The exile of the Ghawazee
WOMEN OF THE HAREM
What is the Harem
Bedouin customs
Life of concubines and Topkapi
A pleasent hospitality
A fascinating and upsetting story
AN ORIENTAL BRIDE
Preparation of the bride
The ceremony
Different point of views
The date of the wedding "gained"
The Ouled Nail
THOUSAND AND A DREAM
The myth of Sheherazade
The story of Morgiana and Ali' Baba'
One more note on Salome'
Memories of travels of Flaubert
Orient in one's own home
Spicy shows
Ruth and the fascination of Egypt
Armen Ohanian in Europe
All women love to dance
The dances in the 20s
Belly Dance and cinema
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THE BELLY DANCER AND ISLAM
Birth and diffusion of Islam
End of the feminine sexual freedom
A custom full of mistery
The "job" of dancer
Islam and the female sexuality
An activity morally condemned
The movie production in the Arabic countries
The country dances
THE RUBY IN THE NAVEL
Today... a cabaret dance
Variations on the theme
Disscoiation from one's own body
De-sexualized belly dance
Censored costumes... but not too much
The tip: a tradition badly kept
The difficult conquer of dignity
The point of view of the amateurs
Prisoners of a stereotype
THE MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST
The music of the human voice
The birth of the music
The despise for a poor and edonistic art
Music in the Islamic countries
Evolution of the instruments
The Oriental music
The relation between music and danse du ventre
The Western influence
The irresistible call of the Arabic music
EAST AND WEST
The dance as a socializing element
To take part to express
To learn the belly dance in the Western World
Researching the real origins
The "name" question
Barriers to pass
An upsetting expression of femininity
Two dances compared
A envyable balance
The veil game: hide and show
Two dances, two cultures
A DANCE FOR THE CHILD-BIRTH
The female body, this unknown
Dance for the life
An experience to live totally
Moves and positions dictated by the instinct
The dance of the Birth and of the Earth
BELLY DANCE IN ITALY
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