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.
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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.”