00:00:05hey welcome to watchmojo.com my name is
00:00:09mahila coleman and i’m a professional
00:00:10belly dancer if you want to know where
00:00:13belly dance thing actually started it’s
00:00:16a little hard to find the information
00:00:17because nobody really knows but what we
00:00:20do know is that is that it’s been around
00:00:22for about six thousand years I was the
00:00:25Turks the Egyptians the Phoenicians
00:00:27started around that time and it was more
00:00:30use for actually sir oneís like first
00:00:32rituals and all kinds of things it was
00:00:34it was much more traditional than it is
00:00:36today in eighteen ninety three it was
00:00:39the first time that America got
00:00:41introduced to belly dancing at a
00:00:42convention in Chicago and ever since
00:00:45then you see it everywhere in restaurant
00:00:47wedding receptions events corporate
00:00:49parties people take classes it’s become
00:00:53like it’s popular everywhere
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