Tribal Fusion Dance

I’m learning an special bellydance style, It’s called Tribal Fusion, Tribal for short, but there is another style that use the same word, but It’s called ATS: American Tribal Style which use  body movements  like codes to create choreographies in the moment of the presentation to the public. Tribal Fusion is a derivation of ATS, but the choreographies aren’t improvisations and you can mix with other dance styles or different movements of them with the traditional bellydance, like flamenco, hip-hop, Indian or Turkish dances and so on.

 The difference between traditional and Tribal, beside the clothes –the first use very colorful tight skirts and bras with a lot of sequins, and shiny accessories, meanwhile the second use a lot of darker colors and kind of old accessories in bronze, sometimes chains, turbans, globes, big skirts and pants too  – it’s the attitude and the muscular work, in the bellydance you are always happy and flirty with the public, the movements are more laidback  and you use a lot the hair in the dance, but at tribal you dance with a stronger posture, very straight, and the
 arms, when we do that kind of wavy movement,  It’s in the space between the line of our chest and head, where we can see them in our vision line without tilting the head down , traditional move the arms between the  hip and head, and well, the interpretation varies within the style you mix and the personal intention of the dancer, usually the tribal has less flirty and more proud  expression.

I like both styles, but now I prefer tribal because it means to learns to control your body in a different way, tribal use a lot of combinations like when you are moving your hips up and down you make circles with your chest- I can’t do it yet-, these you don’t usually do in traditional, and if you do it, It’s usually with the same part of the body, the hip mostly.  Tribal it’s more demanding, but I like it anyways.