BDSS

cepillaolight11 Says:

May 9, 2008 - miles copeland you are a thief

dddevoce Says:

May 16, 2008 - The name of the song is Ancient Ruins from Issam Houshan - Hugs!!

bebetigre12 Says:

Jun 25, 2008 - big bellies

sweetvalina Says:

Nov 4, 2008 - where?

bebetigre12 Says:

Nov 4, 2008 - over there

Bellydanceramber Says:

Jan 13, 2009 - over where?

BellyJae Says:

Jan 24, 2009 - you have issues. None of these girls have big bellies, and there is nothing wrong with a big belly, where do you think the term belly dance came from? Duh.

bebetigre12 Says:

Jan 24, 2009 - the term in french did not originate with sway backed big belly posture.

lanny109 Says:

Jan 30, 2009 - Is it me or are their numbers getting smaller?

jazzypony Says:

Mar 30, 2009 - I don't think its you. The girls of the Indigo have more or less left, and a bunch of the cab dancers too. But I think they just hired a bunch of people.

picante401 Says:

Jun 8, 2009 - im glad eap made a constructive comment in the end; now in my opinion jillina is a master choreographer and she has her own troupe called the sahlala dancer and she made the bdss into her 2nd sahlala dancers they are all jillina clones jillina has signature moves that are very recognizable and i even saw the sahlala dancers use a bdss choreography jillina is great but shes being spread too thin and we're getting bored of the same thing

Karime18 Says:

Jul 7, 2009 - Sonia is sooo HOT!

xolapower Says:

Jul 13, 2009 - You obviously do not know where the term came from. The people who originated it didn't call it belly dancing. (Kind of an unfortunate twist of fate that the French choose that term, because it involves they whole body. )To it's eastern inventors, it was just dancing, and so a more educated English term is Eastern Dance.

xolapower Says:

Jul 13, 2009 - And yes, Sonia is about as good as it gets, a true beauty.

Bellydanka Says:

Aug 6, 2009 - shamanta is dancing funny hahaha i love bdss

jazzypony Says:

Sep 15, 2009 - The term isn't French. I believe the guy who coined it was named Saul Bloom, at one of the worlds fairs. Watch Amercian Belly Dancer, it talks about it.

jazzypony Says:

Sep 15, 2009 - The term came from a man at the Worlds Fair in the Victorian Era to try to get people to come see the belly dancers he had on stage.

dinavienna Says:

Dec 10, 2009 - Oriental dance is acceptable in the English (and French) language, and it means the same.. Actually in France people have been calling the dance oriental dance for a long time, it is largely the English speaking world that has stuck to the very unfortunate and slightly "tacky" term bellydance. And yes, for people from the culture it is just dance - at parties you'd just dance and not so "let's bellydance".

dinavienna Says:

Dec 10, 2009 - Well of course a documentary called "American Belly Dancer" will say an American called it that name first! :)) As a matter of fact in early colonial documents the French used "danse du ventre". It is not an honour though, as the tem is both misleading and unfortunate. And the connotation of nudity, which was not yet there in oriental dancers before the Egyptian varieté theatres of the 30s and 40s, set the track for a bad image of the dance as a performance art.

dinavienna Says:

Dec 10, 2009 - uhm no... Ethnic Arts Promotions may be harsh in words sometimes, but he has great taste and judgment of the dance. He criticizes mostly non Arab dancers for reasons that are obvious to anyone grown in the culture or knowledgeable on it from the "source" and not Westernized presentations of the dance and music in classes or from dvds as BDSS. They are not bad, but it is sad generations of young girls think this is IT whenit is NOT. He gives praise to good Western dancers like Farhana or Sandra.

jazzypony Says:

Dec 10, 2009 - Although I wonder how many just adverage American people would think of Bellydancing when you said 'Oriental Dance' and not of something from Japan or China and what is now thought of as the Orient. Sadly, I think we're just stuck with the term. We all just have to do our best as dancers to change people's minds.

dinavienna Says:

Dec 11, 2009 - ya I am aware of the difference in the denomination "Orient" and "oriental" between Continental Europe and the US... here "Orient" refers to Arab/Persian/Turkish cultures, China or Japan would be extreme oriental or rather "Asian".. true the term sticks, and that will hardly be changed :)

vampiregirl232 Says:

Dec 12, 2009 - i just love bellydace superstars , jillina and ansuya are my IDOLS ! DOES ANYONE KNOWS THE NAME OF THE SONG ? I JUST LOVE IT TOO !

LuchiiyzRubia Says:

Dec 13, 2009 - Ancient Ruins

bellydance64 Says:

Jan 24, 2010 - the name of the song it's (ancient ruins) from the babelesque cd