Who was the first Belly Dancer?
No one knows who the first Belly Dancer was or where she came from. Belly Dance (generic and misunderstood American term for Middle Eastern dances) is a fusion of several Middle Eastern dances and movements from the cradle of civilization that continues evolving, growing, and changing even today. Please remember there are dozens of different types of belly dance but they all have the same origins. Many historians believed Belly Dance was a dance passed down from generation to generation by mothers to their daughters as a sacred dance of fertility, most historians say it was a dance meant only for the eyes of woman (and not for a man to ever see). Belly dance eventually with the dawn of the Neolithic (settled age) went on to become the celebratory folk dancing done among women and men (separately) during events such as weddings and other segregated celebrations.
