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Why I Belly Dance
By Nancy Lindquist | April 3, 2007
My interests and obsessions go in streaks. Running always hangs around, but other things come and go. Belly Dance is one of them. I will put it down, because I get busy, then pick it up. I never seem to get why I put it down.
I’m okay at most things. I write with my own style, but everything else I try I am okay enough to pass at, never really good. Belly dance is different. I have a real ability there. I’m not saying I’m gifted. I’m saying I don’t suck.
It’s one of those things I do because I love it. I love getting the moves right, how my body feels when I do it, how I look when I’m doing it.
Face it, I don’t have the body to do any other kind of dance. Hippy and fluid is an unusual combination. Belly dance works with that body type. Actually, it works with all body types. That’s the beauty of it. I’ve met some women who cannot belly dance. They are stiff and their bodies won’t ground the way you need to. This is an earthy art form. You need to be comfortable in your skin. Which is probably the real reason I pick it up and drop it.
Skin comfort has always been a battle for me. I am and then I’m not. When I like me, I dance. When I don’t… Aha, the secret to why I do, then don’t do. Learn something new every day.
Now, if I could only do a decent stomach roll, life would be sweet.
