Gyenis Boglárka’s performance at the Ras El Sena Bellydance Competition
in Budapest, Hungary, 30 December, 2007
I suppose there’s several reasons I like this video, the competition was held in Budapest, my mother’s birthplace. Hungary is a crossroads country… on the edge between the East and the West. Just as in nature the borderlands are the most productive for animals, so too for people. It is in the merging of elements that we get the most variety and growth. Hungary was held by the Mongols for over 300 years. There is a huge amount of blending of peoples and cultures that occurred in those years, and perhaps it made the people more open to other influences….
And I like the music a lot…..
Her performance is an example of merging of cultures and methods… it is NOT traditional Belly-Dance… it is an amalgam of styles…. very different, like something from another planet.
And yes, she dances well and is cute… what can I say
