Middle Eastern Dance show that I went to Saturday Night!  

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Nope, never too old to learn, but I can be too old to perform in front of an audience. At my age, I can still dance, but prefer to not dance something like this in front of people, I wouldn't feel comfortable..

The Tribal circle dances are a lot like the Jewish Dances. No jirating or showing anything. Mostly footwork.

That is more like what I will do in public...

Every age and comfort level is represented. So you could find something. Glad the Jewish Dances would be in your comfort zone (ooompah! Not sure what that means, but I watched a show where people were dancing and yelling it. They seemed happy and having a good time).

I should say Jewish-like or reminisence of would be nice for your comfort zone. Take care.

Village dances the people are fully covered and dancing what people would consider modestly. Most tribal now-a-days is called tribal fusion. It's not traditional tribal. The village dances are usually for some right of passage. Tribal fusion is combinations of types of middle eastern and can include elements that people may not consider middle eastern dancing. Just clarifying because I should have said village dances before.

Youtube has some middle eastern dancing show snippets.

For a good idea of the different types of DVDs teaching Middle Eastern Dance, a professional dancer at our show had her website shakemyday.com on the back of the dance recital program. There are some really accurate pictures of her in one of her outfits there, too. You can see what she presently looks like. I can remember her as a teenager starting out with a village dance. Bread basket dance. Teen girls would offer bread in a basket to several different males. Whoever took a piece of bread from the basket, would date the girl. She represented those girls. She wore a white tunic from shoulders to ankles. Her hair was permed and very fluffy. She was thin and sleek looking. Barefoot and dancing with a basket in her hands. That was in the late 1980s or early 1990s. So that was many years ago. Flirting with the eyes seemed to be a very important part of the dance. So seeing her grow as a dancer all these years has been amazing.

I also dance to Christian rock, hip hop and interpretive. I watched part of the video on Sara's site and she is good. But like you said, my comfort zone sticks to covering myself up, not only because of my age, but I really would not look good in something that skimpy and I don't think anyone else would want to see it either.

Anyways, thanks for sharing that site. Belly dancing is something I do try to do, but I don't think I really caught onto it..

It's different when you have an instructor. Certain kinds of dance and martial arts, an instructor is needed at least in the beginning to get the basics down. Thanks and take care.

It's great and a lot of fun. I wish I had both the time and money to go back to the lessons, another thing I want to do when I retire.

It sounds like it. We need to be more into to these type of things.

Absolutely!

I used to dance all the time and loved it. Great exercise!

I have some dance videotapes. I guess if I ever get money again, I should get some dance DVDs. One of the professional dancers who came for the performance Saturday night is on shakemyday.com . Her website was on the back of the program. I wish I could have bought some of the "how to" DVDs she had.

So put on some music and dance!

I used to dance once a day. I hope to get back to doing that some day.

Thanks for the BR!!

Dance is the general category. I received responses for this.

The zero responses are old and they can stay that way.