Tour Scotland Video Belly Dancing Royal Mile Festival Fringe Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of Belly Dancing on the Royal Mile at the Festival Fringe on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. These wonderful dancers are from Spain. The term belly dance is a translation of the French term danse du ventre, which was applied to the dance in the Victorian era, and probably originally referred to the Arabic tribe Ouled Nail dancers of Algeria, whose dance used more abdominal movements than the dances described today as belly dance. It is something of a misnomer, as every part of the body is involved in the dance; the most featured body part is usually the hips.

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