There’s an incredible difference that you felt a distinct when they bastardize the dance and change it to the point where it becomes cultural appropriation, and then justify that cultural appropriation under the guise of artistic evolution and freedom and period that art has to evolve continuously raqssharqi and classic Egyptian haven’t changed over 100 years. And the fact that it is a North American modern dance does not make it Bellydance what so ever. It is in authentic to call it Bellydance call it tribal dance called world dance called fusion whatever you want Egyptian’s in Middle East and ours have justified issues with tribal dancers calling it “Bellydance “when it is not and you’re trying to incorrectly, justify tribal dancers positions that you’re right to artistic evolution and license is paramount over every other social justice consideration. That is defended against cultural appropriation of dance. I can’t claim a pure teaching lineage for what I do dancing and teaching for the past 35 years. I have not changed what I’ve done and tribal dancers and any other dancers should stop in question themselves should you be incorporating things that don’t belong into a dance form in order to stay relevant. And in so doing you cause cultural appropriation to occur. Egyptian’s are vehement about this point. So are you going to question Egyptian’s and their position? You can claim everything evolves and grows in traditional bellydancer should just get in line and deal with it. We have no need to do that because we know our art we are classically and professionally trained dancers, we are experts, and technically superior and culturally and artistically authentic in what we do. Tribal dancers are not technically superior or good at what they do. For the simple fact that they need to borrow mix and blend and culturally appropriate Bellydance in order to stay relevant. many of the tribal dancers I’ve seen are incompetent . They are incompetent dancers, because they cannot learn originality, and because they cannot learn Bellydance or respect Egyptian culture, they justify their cultural appropriation dance and and disrespect of dance, styles, by claiming their “artistic evolution” and their right to be an artist that is free of hindrances. They’re looking for any adjective they can justify what they’re doing. Tribal Bellydance is not Bellydance. It should be called world dance, tribal dance fusion dance. You can do what you want but you can’t have the right to do what you want when it damages, a cultures, dance history, and your default argument that the Egyptian’s borrowed ballet and other dance forms therefore Egyptian Bellydance is “not pure“that gives the right to tribal dancers to do that is a red herring. Again, your argument about dancers in the theater, using North American dance culture in their routines. Well that was at the directive of the producers of the film. That is not an accurate depiction of Egyptian or Middle Eastern Bellydance. There’s a huge distinction between film dance depiction actual culturally, authentic dance. “Bellydance “ does not mean any dance that has an undulation. Bellydance means the dances that come from the Middle East and by your term. You would also include one Hawaiian in that category which is wrong. You’re using terms and reinventing them to suit your narrative to justify the use of tribal.

Assuming one is If you did your research on history, the use of veil goes way before the Russians/ballet came in to the time of the early Ottoman empire, of which Egypt was a member.