Today, I learned how to bellydance.

[flvegan]

Yup. FitTV had a show on called "Shimmy". On this show, three enticing young women were teaching viewers how to bellydance. The shaking and gyrating were hypnotic. Oh, and the outfits they were wearing!

[LeftyMom]

1. Is that what they call it now?

:eyes:

[flvegan]

3. Jealous of my hip figure-8 rolling ass, ain't ya?

[LeftyMom]

5. One of our oldest family friends is a bellydance instructor. No joke.

[Parche]

2. I Dream Of flvegan

[flvegan]

4. Ack! Don't give our resident Photoshoppers any ideas.

[kentauros]

6. Something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BY76G578Qk

:D

[flvegan]

8. Yes, but with 50% more hawt chicks!

[kentauros]

17. You should see the bellydance meetup group I'm in

with half a dozen hawt chicks! :D

Most of the meetups allow fans of the art in them, too, so you might look into it (meetup.com)

[flvegan]

27. Best info I've ever gotten on DU. Thank you.

Will do.

:thumbsup:

[kentauros]

31. You're welcome :)

Hope you find a good group to join.

[siligut]

7. WooHoo!

If you go to any of the live presentations given by the schools there are men literally lolling around on pillows. Tons of fun, and some of the costumes are astounding. However, I have never seen a man bellydance, very cool of you.

[flvegan]

9. Honestly, I didn't get off the couch.

It was a study in watching, not imitating.

[MrCoffee]

10. I would be LOLing around on pillows if 5gan shook his moneymaker

[flvegan]

11. Your mother shakes my moneymaker for me, Trebek.

[MrCoffee]

12. Yeah, and nickels fall out.

:eyes:

[flvegan]

13. If that were true I'd have chipped her teeth by now, Trebek.

:evilgrin:

[MrCoffee]

14. She didn't tell you? They're wooden.

Watch out for splinters.

[flvegan]

15. Then they'd be dented.

And she's extremely talented, so I have no worries.

[MrCoffee]

16. Right on, Nickledick

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. Video?

LostinVA says the chick on Namaste Yoga is really hot, just fyi.

[flvegan]

19. *ahem*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=8201315

[kentauros]

20. I see a new career ahead for you

and just the role-models to make it:

Tito Egyptian male Raks Sharki (Oriental Dance/belly Dance)

Jamil Male Belly dancer

[Lady-Damai]

21. I love bellydancing....

If you want try something else.... I recommend

[kentauros]

24. I'm glad to see Island dance included

:)

Our local meetup group just added links for local groups that teach and perform Hawaiian, Polynesian, Tahitian and Hula Dance. I'll have to see when they have shows :D

Do you perform?

[Orrex]

22. How that show gets a 'G' rating from the good folks at Comcast, I'll never know

[crim son]

23. Video, please? n/t

[DarkTirade]

25. ... don't you have to have a belly to bellydance?

:P

[pokerfan]

26. From Russia With Love was on cable the other day

Ask me anything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmp0H4-CpyE

Lisa Guiraut: Worked as a stewardess for TWA until 1958. Married John Raymond Guiraut 1958, divorced 1962. One son, Michael, born 1958. Started dancing in night clubs and cabarets; in 1961 appeared as a belly dancer in "Days Of Wine and Roses". The dancing scene, supposedly set on board a yacht, was in fact filmed at Warner Bros studio in Burbank. Lisa then appeared in the second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, where she performed a belly dance in the gypsy camp scene (set in Turkey just outside Instanbul, actually filmed on a soundstage and Pinewood Studios in England). Lisa continued to perform at night clubs and Casinos around the world during most of the sixties, finally settling down in the seventies to run a bar on the resort island of Majorca. She claims that Peter Sellers once proposed to her while she was at the height of her career but of course this cannot be confirmed (she declined). Besides the films mentioned she also did numerous guest appearances on various television shows as a dancer.

[Dangerously Amused]

28. Me too! Our bellies should get together and dance sometime.

[billyskank]

29. *snarf*

Almost everything you say conjures up an evil image in my mind. I do not know whether this says more about me than you. :)

[Dangerously Amused]

30. Heh heh.

Oh, I'm quite certain that you're the one with an evil mind. O8)

[BarenakedLady]

32. Coolio

Seriously, I'd love to learn to bellydance.

I do a mean Shikira imitation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygctbqBijFk