The real name?Raqs sharqi, raks baladi, raks assaya, oriental dance, there’s actually quite a few names depending on the style. But yeah it’s 100% called belly dance now bc some French colonizers from the era of corsets were all a-titter behind their pallid, uncallused hands at being able to see a torso in motion 🤭🤭🤭🫣🫣 They called it “danse du ventre” and it caught on, as so many colonizer things do! ——I have had a burning passion for Egyptian dance for 20 yrs and I want to share it with yo