I've been meaning to investigate this phenom further ever since I saw a Goth Bellydance troupe from St. Louis perform at "Goth Night" at the now, alas, defunct Dart Room in Fayetteville. Check out this vid:
It all goes back to Theda Bara, no?
Here, for the perplexed, is a guide to gothic bellydance.
And--although I've not read it yet--a link, courtesy wayneandwax, to what I am sure is a great article by Sunaina Mair on bellydance orientalism ("arabface"). And check out wayneandwax's recent post on bellydance here.
(I hope, inshallah, to think about these things a bit more systematically in future.)
6 comments:
The link to Sunaina's article is broken.
thanks for telling me! it's now fixed.
fascinating video!
interestingly, given the conflation of south asian and arab signifiers that i discuss in my own post, it's worth noting that the track propelling the "raks gothique" embedded here is from enduser's _bollywood breaks_ project
yeha,, i love gothic bellydance ,, there are something bellydance whit metal music too... and the video that you posted,,was really nice,,,,,,,, ;)
Gothic bellydance is amazing. The best music for it mixed with rock and metal (like Nahi says) is Bellymetal by Khepri.
You should totally check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4f3v5zMTSY
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