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Raqia Hassan – Laban Movements Analysis – The Business Woman (5.7.1)
(Raqs sharqi stars from the 1990s and 2000s)
Raqia Hassan Background
According to online sources (Sharif, no date; El Safy, 1995), Raqia was born in Cairo and started dancing in the Reda troupe as a folkloric dancer at the age of 14.
However, Raqia felt that folklore was not really for her and her real love was instead Raqs sharqi.
She said ‘I learned folklore — but I didn’t like it, this is not my feeling.
When I started teaching [Oriental dance] I felt, ‘this is my way’ (Luciano-Adams, no date, para. 16). Raqia never had the opportunity to pursue oriental dance as a performer, though.
According to the American dancer Morocco, based on a comment she wrote under a Youtube video of Raqia (Marhaba Belly Dance Festival Rome, 2011) it was because of her family: ‘What a fabulous Oriental dancer Raqia would have been, if her family had allowed it’ (comment written as MoroccoCasbah).
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