I need to find as many terms to call a Belly Dance Teacher by wenesday, i have look around with no luck, If anyone knows please help me around,
Thanks.
2006-09-25 17:55:07 · 5 answers · asked by iday_iday 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Dancing
My dance instructor ask us to look for this, I know theres has to be something they are called, just like in karate they are Sen Sei.
2006-09-25 18:21:00 · update #1
In general we are just called a dance teacher, bellydance teacher, instructor, bellydance instructor, etc... Otherwise we are called by our names either stage names or real names depending on the teacher. We do not have specific terms which we are called. There are alternative names for belly dance:
Raqs 'sharqi, middle eastern dance, danse du ventre, oriental dance, orientale dans, etc... but you would still tag on teacher or instructor to that. If your looking for a more historical term I would say possibly your looking for the term almah(s.) or awaliim(pl.) which actually is a learned entertainer. She could perform the function of teaching others but the term does not mean that she is a teacher. The almah was trained in poetry and song. She knew how to play at least one instrument and came with a list of songs and poems she knew already by heart. She was also instructed in how to dance but the next point is that we cannot clearly say whether the almah was performing what we think of as bellydance or if it was something else. Your teacher is mis-informed if she thinks there is a specific term for a bellydance instructors. Either that or she is sending you on a wild goose chase or you are reading to far into the assignment. You must remember that being a teacher of such things in traditional arab countries was not a position of respect it was looked on as prostitution. People generally only give names to something they see as honorable and worthy of being named. Sen-sei is a term of respect while belly dance teacher in any laguage is generally thought of as loose woman who dances nacked or nearly so.
2006-09-25 19:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by cassandra581 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You normally call them by their "dance name", or what they wish for you to call them.
2006-09-26 01:02:27 · answer #2 · answered by Norah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually I call mine by however she introduces herself.
2006-09-26 01:12:41 · answer #3 · answered by JannahLee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dance instructor?
2006-09-26 01:07:32 · answer #4 · answered by freaking_airhead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its beli dancerr
2006-09-26 08:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by TMFULP. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋