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15. Is American Belly Dance authentic?
Answer:
Yes. If you mean, is it an exact duplication of what is seen in the middle east Today, no, but it is not as far off as you might think. Keep in mind that influences go both ways. Americans were influenced by the dance and music of the middle east, and they in turn have been influenced by us. Belly dance has changed quite a bit there in the last hundred years, so that modern middle east dance has more in common with the American version than with it is an own past.