Word: telly
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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BELLY dancing is often considered one of the lower art forms, but many practitioners of Shifte Telli and Karshilama, now enjoying a major revival in the U.S., got their first training in church. See SHOW BUSINESS, The Cooch Terpers...
...Oriental pattern-she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room. This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli (a musical term meaning double strings) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama (meaning greetings or welcome). The New York dancers are highly eclectic, varying the pattern with all kinds of personal improvisations, back bends or floor crawls. But they do not strip. The striptease is crass; the belly dance leaves more...
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