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The University dance department has offered a course in belly dancing since 1975, but there has never been an avail able textbook to help teach it. Two University students, Marianne Morino and Pamela Gates, have written a book to supplement the course. “The Secrets of the Veil,” which has been accepted by a national publishing company for consideration,* traces the history of belly dancing and includes ex- _ ercises, ideas for coordinating costumes and anecdotes. The book took three years to research and is the first of its nature to deal with belly dancing history. Morino and Gates traced belly-dance history back to 3000 B.C. In Egypt, belly dancing was a sac red fertility rite. The belly was sacred in Egyptian times because they did not understand the biological and scientific process of impregnation," Morino says. Two-thousand years later in the Mid dle East, the stomach was praised as a pure and holy symbol. Morino says men would make oaths on their stomachs in stead of on their hearts. “They would lay their sword on the stomach to make*n oath," she says. The book outlines the various phases of the belly dance, illustrating girl’s youth through womanhood. The introduction, which represents youth, removal of the veil signifies marriage and the rest of the dance symbolizes womanhood. Book may shake-up belly dance world; describes exercises By ANAMARIA BELL Of the Emerald Marianne Morino demonstrates the content other book-on belly dancing - which she wrote with fellow student Pamela Gates. The book has been accepted by a national publishing company for consideration. New labor regulations keep youths from picking berries SEATTLE (AP) — There is no way Washington and Oregon far mers can meet Department of Labor standards that would allow 10 and 11-year-olds to pick ber ries this summer, an aide to Rep. Lloyd Meeds said Tuesday. 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Put on a pair of Noppy Sandals, and hundreds of tiny fingers will massage your feet with every step BIRKENSTOCK NOPPYS 2nd Floor Atrium lOth & Olive Mon.-Sat. 11-6 687-0065 Belly dancing costumes vary with dif ferent countries and different times, ac cording to Morino. She says that while Egyptians wore airy, transparent gowns, the Greeks preferred harem pants and head dresses with veils to cover the face. Morino says the sheer costumes did not originate until the 18th Century. “I disapprove of them because they are not traditional and were developed more for cabaret-type nightshows,” she adds. “Belly dancing was presented not in its original art form, but as an attrac tion for soldiers. In the mid-18th Century, Morino says an Arabian king by the name of Mohammed Ali banned female belly dancers because they were more like prostitutes than artistic belly dancers. At that time, male belly dancers flourished. Morino says she has thoroughly en joyed working on the book because she wants to share her concept of belly danc ing with other people. “My concept is respectability,” she says. “Belly dancing should be pre sented as an art rather than as an exploi tation.” “I perceive belly dancing as an an cient art form which I believe takes much discipline, strength and control,” Morino says. “It is as challenging as any other forms of dance such as ballet and mod em jazz.”
