Dancing ladies...

Been reading about how belly dancing is a women's cultural custom, for women and by women. Originally no men were allowed to see, and it was a custom passed down through generations as part of women's nature of giving: they are the givers of life. 
Apparently the belly button is the centre of all life where all other movements begin; in dancing and in pregnancy. 


"Go back to the baby's conception, to the love embrace, to the excited prelude that brought together a woman and a man....a dance. Made in a dance, born to dance, live and dance" - Fawzia Al-Rawi

 Then I found Isadora Duncan who said she "would fight against marriage and for the emancipation of women."

 

Then Ruth St Denis who brought Eastern dance to America, combining global cultures: something feminists aim to do in order not to exclude anyone further

She also thought dance could bring about the 'betterment of humankind': she is my new heroine

  

"Everything was brought into being, into visibility, into form, by rhythm, and therfore that made the dance as a symbol of The Creation." (28seconds pt 2)

"I put it [the below cigarette advert poster of the goddess Isis] up at the foor of my bed, and in an hours time my life for the next 30 years was changed forever" (103seconds pt 3)

"I was commanded by the invisible to move in the mysterious rhythms of wisdom" (209 seconds pt 2)