Posted on YouTube: May 17, 2017
The International Day of Dance.
A webpage about the impresaria: Natalia Hayat
She has a post graduate degree from the University of Chile.
So put aside that this is just merely bellydance. Apparently, this is taken quite seriously in South America.
Posted on YouTube: May 12, 2017
But claimed to be a video from 2014
The Awalim Dance Troupe facebook page (Click Here)
Though the poster of this video, Angélica Sanchez, may possibly be no longer associated with the troupe. Can’t say for sure. Maybe she is branching out, on her own.
You can hear the Arab Yodel during the dance.
Posted on YouTube: May 12, 2017
But claimed to be a video from 2016
Another video posted by Angélica Sanchez.
Posted YouTube: May 10, 2017
Notice the parents in the audience!
Video of the inaugural program at an Arab Dance School in Ecuador.
This is the school’s Facebook page (Click Here)
She runs a school out of Quito, Ecuador.
Apparently, this is seen as a genuine respectable art form in South America. Personally, it seems a bit close to the risqué for me; but the Latins see this as purely art, and even instruct young ladies in it. The practitioners get very upset if someone equates this to anything else but serious art.
The prevalence of this in South America is indicative of the penetration of Arab culture into their mainstream. What should be noted is that would only come from Christian Arabs, who are the vast majority of Arabs is the Americas.
Muslim Arabs would kill any women of theirs who participated in this.
Posted on YouTube: May 10, 2017
Again, notice how commonplace this is. Notice the mixed gender audience. This is seen as an ethnic art form, not sexualized.