Jade is a belly dance teacher, performer and student living in Northern Alabama. She is also a hooper. She writes, “I was talking with a fellow belly dancer who is now also hooping about hooping vs. belly dancing the other day. We have both been belly dancing about the same amount of time (her ten years, me nine). We were discussing how one of the great things about hooping is that you don’t have to worry about having to explain it to people, having to educate people, or having people get the wrong idea. With belly dance, you have to be careful about how it’s presented and in what venue. There are so many incorrect or negative preconceived notions about what belly dancing is about and what the intentions of the dancers are. … With hula hooping, everyone knows what it is. No one will see a hula hooper and react with ‘what the heck are they doing? They are amazingly keeping this big, circular thing rotating around their body! How crazy!’” Full post:
Hey! Thanks for posting this. It looks like the link to the full post accidentally got left out, so here it is http://ujade.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/hoop-dancing-belly-dancing-and-the-general-public/
What a cool site this is. I’m glad I came across it and I’ll definitely be reading more in the future!