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Arab girls dancing Khaleegy. Khaleegy (Arabic: خليجي) is a dance performed in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. [36] A long "Thawb" is worn which the dancer holds up in front. [37] There is a step with it, but the main feature is the hair tossing as the head swings from side to side.
Khaleegy' or Khaliji (from Arabic خليج) is a mixture of modern style and traditional folkloric dance from the Persian Gulf countries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The name of the dance literally means "gulf" in Arabic and it is performed by women at weddings and other social events.
Levantine. Dabke (Arabic: دبكة also spelled dabka, dabki, dubki, dabkeh, plural dabkaat) [1] is a Levantine folk dance, [2][3] particularly popular among Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian and Syrian communities. [4] Dabke combines circle dance and line dancing and is widely performed at weddings and other joyous occasions.
The Mayyas. The Mayyas (Arabic: مَيّاس) are a Lebanese all-female alternative precision dance group. The company has 36 dancers, and their routines are choreographed by Nadim Cherfan. The group's name means "the proud walk of a lioness" in Arabic. In 2019, the Mayyas reached the semifinals of Britain's Got Talent: The Champions and took ...
The traditional dances of the Middle East (Arabic: رقص شرق أوسطي) (also known as Oriental dance) span a large variety of folk traditions throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. For detailed information on specific dances of the region, see the main entries as follows: Western dance is also incorporated in the ...
The yowlah is considered a victory dance, and it used to be performed after a victory in a tribal war or after returning from a successful pearl diving. The highly successful reality series Al Meydan on Sama Dubai took the yowlah (which was not widely known at the time) and created competition similar to the format American Idol whereby viewers ...
Egyptian group of Ghawazi dancers (c. 1880) Ghawazi (also ghawazee) (Egyptian Arabic: الغوازي) are female dancers who danced in return for money in public settings, and the streets. There were male dancers as well, including men who performed movements associated with women and who were pejoratively called khawal.
Mezmar or mizmar (Arabic: مزمار al-mizmar) is a traditional group performance and stick song-dance that is performed by in the Hejaz region in western Saudi Arabia for festive occasions such as wedding and national events. [1][2] Almezmar is performed by about 15–100 practitioners in festive occasions such as wedding and national events ...