In Egyptian dance a trait naturally emerges that everyone recognizes as SENSUALITY.
But what is sensuality? What does it look like? Why is it so subtly present in this dance, in this culture, in this music?
Sensuality by definition is the ability to strongly feel impulses, it is the satisfaction in sensitive pleasures, from the aesthetic to that of taste. It is a quality that expresses inspiration, a way of dealing with life. It is the fluid aspect of life, perhaps elusive, the liquid aspect of being.
Modern Western man often lives a "thought" life, a life in which one must produce, a life in which one must be there before being.
This is what suddenly attracts a dance that focuses on fluidity, improvisation, a game of subtly mischievous glances and smiles.
The western spectator still today considers it an exotic dance, yet it intrigues .. almost reconnecting it to an ancient need: pleasure.
Many women, entangled in increasingly complex duties and roles, have a great need to remain connected to the sphere of pleasure. So taking off your shoes, tying a belt around your hips, untying your hair becomes the celebration of pleasure.
Here are the words found in a friend's post:
“Sensuality or rather sensual thinking has been defeated and now functional thinking, economics, dominates. Sensuality is dispersive, vague, it is an increasingly difficult disposition to achieve.
If the day is not sensual, if our senses do not work, it is a day of mourning, even if no one has died ".
(ARMINIO)
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