Why is it important to learn various styles even within the belly dance genre?

✅ It expands your dance vocabulary: not only in terms of specific combos, but mostly in terms of breaking limiting habits of familiar movement patterns.⁣⁣
✅ It trains your brain to activate your muscles in unusual body coordination patterns.⁣⁣⠀
✅ It makes you learn in different ways.⁣⁣⠀
✅ It helps to improve creativity.⁣⁣⠀
✅ It shapes your individual style with time.⁣⁣⠀
✅ It refreshes your love to dance because you are always in the mindset of a student, hungry to learn more.⁣⁣⠀
✅ It develops your dance acting skills because every style will have its own mood and character, and so much more!⁣⁣

So never limit yourself to only one style: drum solos, or classical oriental, or folklore. Even if you are not planning to perform, even if you are not a big fan of the style, still learn it. It will benefit you tremendously and only enhance your creativity and artistic exploration on stage.⁣⁣

In my personal dance journey I went through studying all sorts of dances along with classical belly dance💁‍♀️: folklore of Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, many dances of Iran, even did some classes on Uzbek and Indian Kalbeliya styles, as well as ballet, contemporary, flamenco… I always say that my favorite style is the next one, lol. 😆And yet I remain being a belly dancer as my main focus, and my main artistic expression.⁣⁣

Which are your most favorite dance styles, and which styles do you think are not really for you? 🤗It can be something broad, or something within our ‘belly dance-related world’. 😘❤️ Share in the comments below.👇👇👇