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All
women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their
body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood,
motherhood and tenderness.
There's
no dancing more natural than Oriental Dance. The very movements are
ideally set for the feminine body. Oriental Dance is not only an
initiation into the mysteries of body language but also a revelation of
the mystical necessity to express power beyond words. Sensuality is part
and parcel of a woman's sensitivity. She senses the world within her and
around her intuitively and creatively. She lives and moves in the very
center of her dimurgical forces; her body is a spiral that whirls from
below upward to touch the heavens above and return to earth with arms
full of gifts and offerings. Oriental dance is a direct path to
seductiveness that women should not resist. Eroticism is part of a
woman's charm, but so is spirituality, which gives essentiality to her
attractiveness.
Pretty
and empty is not the norm for contemporary ideologies, what could be
more stupendous than intelligence radiating like a fire from within,
especially when sensual awareness of harmony envelops that presence?
Women
are creatures imbued with insight, and enrobed in sensitivity, which
make them seem vulnerable. But Soft does not mean Weak. Pliability is
often far more resistant than hardness. The spirit of woman can be
explained in love that is meant to rise in compassionate awareness. When
a woman learns how to listen to her body and cultivates her mind to
develop a sense of discovery in herself, she becomes an instrument able
to touch great heights. Once there, she needs only to make peace with
the values of her femininity and accept the challenges of facing life on
her own terms.
In the
generations to come she will have to learn how to stand alone, yet
remain a glimpse of heaven on earth for those who gaze into her eyes and
drink of her energy. Her generosity expresses her willingness to share,
give, rear and sooth all she touches, because she knows that through
love she fulfils her destiny as an integral part of the cosmic Soul.
But
these blessings though intimately rooted in the qualities of her nature,
too often storm her pent-up feelings with an intense need for release.
Oriental Dance can free her yearning for expression, harmonize her body
to the rhythms of her heart, and bring the spirit of serenity back into
harmony to appease her pain without violating the gentleness that makes
her a woman.
Oriental
Dance is a prehistoric art which women perfected long ago to balance the
energies that emotions cannot control in the face of difficulties, when
hardship and the cruelties of life fail to explain the reasons for
survival. Oriental Dance is a cathartic ritual, a simple and purified
way for woman to remain courageously strong and compassionate, able to
endure life's tribulations with less anguish, to go on living, fighting,
and growing without ever losing faith in Love and Creativity.
Flow
into your dancing,
Circulate the steps into your Body
As you would run your fingers
Through the hair of the one
you Love
Copyright
©Nelly Mazloum, 1994
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