Every now and then we belly dancers encounter a costume for sale of which we think: 'what were they thinking when they created this one?' Especially on EBay you can have moments like this. We're talking about the famous costumes that are advertised as belly dance costume, but that no dancer would ever wants to be seen wearing, or the bra's with nipple flowers, belts with crotch-tassels (they are officially called crassels) or other weird things.This blog is about such costumes. If you have a picture of a costume you'd like to see on this blog, just send me a message trough the contact form at the bottom of this blog.
I'm a belly dancer in Australia. I live in Northern Rivers. I love art, I have always been into drawing and painting when I was a kid and teenager, but when I discovered belly dance as a teenager and I was immediately impressed by this beautiful dance style. Although I studied many different dancing styles troughout my life (like ballet, Latin and ballroom dance, Bharat Natyam and Indian folkloric dances), my major interest is still belly dance. In 1995 I began teaching and performing belly dance in The Netherlands. Later in 1998 I went India to study different dancing and costuming styles. My latest interest is tribaret style, a combination of classical belly dance and tribal belly dance. I went to the Rietvelt Academy of Arts in Amsterdam in 1994, but this was totally not my kind of thing. They had a different look on art then I do so I left and went my own way. Lately I got into jewelry making. I also do my own costume design for belly dance (you can see them on tribe.net in my album)
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