Chinese belly dance

Chinese-style fusion belly dance shows the dance gesture of “less is more”. The dance combines the skills of Chinese nationality, classical and ballet, emphasizing that dance steps must incorporate emotions and rhythms, and inherits many Chinese traditional dance techniques and emotions. Today, this traditional Egyptian performing arts has been joined by a variety of traditional Chinese national elements, occupying a place on the stage of international belly dancing.

中式融合肚皮舞展现的是“少即是多”的舞蹈姿态，舞蹈结合中国民族、古典、芭蕾舞的技巧，强调舞步须加入情感和律动，并传承了很多中国传统舞蹈的技艺、情感和舞姿。如今，这项埃及传统表演艺术已经被中国的艺术家们加入了各种中式的传统的民族元素，在国际肚皮舞的舞台上占有一席之地。

Belly Dance and Chinese Dancers' Story 

Belly Dance Localization: In the process of world promotion, belly dance has a variety of styles of various fusion styles, such as “American Egyptian style”, “tribal style” and “Argentine style”, “Turkey Wind" and so on. In the early 90s, belly dance entered China and was deeply loved by Chinese dancers. Many dancers believed that belly dance should combine the characteristics of Chinese traditional dance, showed the world the unique style of Chinese traditional dance and belly dance combined with the profound cultural essence of China. As a result, Chinese belly dance predecessors began to research and innovate. They created a Chinese-style fusion belly dance. Chinese fusion belly dance absorbs a variety of dance styles such as ballet, Chinese folk dance, Chinese classical dance, Chinese Dunhuang dance, Chinese Han and Tang dance. Chinese fusion belly dancers utilize the basic training system of ballet and Chinese dance, enriching the belly dance style and technology; They utilize the unique hand, eye, body, style and dance rhythm of Chinese dance to enrich the skills and content of belly dance, making belly dance localized and more suitable Chinese belly dance dancer.

Chinese fusion belly dance is fully used in Chinese dance dramas and movements to find a combination with belly dance movements, so that the dancers really dance in the process, not only training the technology, but also strengthening the dance feeling. The Chinese-style fusion belly dance draws on the content of the belly dance dancers in the training system of ballet dance and Chinese dance. It helps the dancers to get in the aspects of breathing, limbs, arms, steps, rotation, dance feelings, dance rhythm and so on. The Chinese-style fusion belly dance has created a belly dance moderate breathing method, which fully combines the traditional chest breathing aesthetics of the dance and the characteristics of the belly dance abdominal breathing technique to make the dancers be more beautiful.

肚皮舞本土化：肚皮舞在世界推广过程中，出现了各具风格的多种融合风，例如“美式埃及风”“部落风”“阿根廷风”“土耳其风”等等。90年代初期，肚皮舞进入中国，深受中国舞者喜爱，很多舞者认为肚皮舞更应该结合中国舞特点，向世界展示中国传统舞蹈和肚皮舞结合以后的独特风格及中国博大的文化精粹。于是，中国的肚皮舞前辈们开始研究、创新，他们创造出了中式融合肚皮舞。中式融合肚皮舞吸收了芭蕾舞、中国民族民间舞、中国古典舞、中国敦煌舞、中国汉唐舞等多种舞蹈风格。利用芭蕾舞和中国舞的基训体系，丰富了肚皮舞风格及技术；利用中国舞独特的手、眼、身法、风格及舞蹈韵律丰富肚皮舞的技巧和内容，使肚皮舞本土化，更适合中国肚皮舞舞者。

    中式融合肚皮舞充分在中国舞蹈剧目中、动作中，寻找与肚皮舞动作的结合点，使舞者真正地在舞蹈的过程，不但训练了技术，还加强了舞蹈感觉。中式融合肚皮舞，充分借鉴了芭蕾舞蹈和中国舞的训练体系中适合肚皮舞舞者的内容，在呼吸、肢体、手臂、步伐、旋转、舞蹈感觉、舞蹈韵律等多个方面，帮助舞者得到真正提升。中式融合肚皮舞独创了肚皮舞中度呼吸法，充分结合了传统舞蹈的胸式呼吸美感，以及肚皮舞腹式呼吸技术的特点，使舞者更具美感。