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Similarities and differences between flamenco and oriental

An easy way to take mysticism or racist-sexist aura of oriental dance is compared with flamenco, as we have many a time. "This is what the Arabs dancing at weddings, like Gypsies, flamenco is a bit gross simplification, but we used to walk home.

is not all there. Some similarities:

- They are both considered exotic dancing and quite misunderstood outside the home.

- dances are sensual, stereotypically used to seduce, sometimes for "femme fatale" (Salome, Carmen).

- You can dance alone group and, rarely, the oriental dance in pairs and mixed groups.

- Both have complex rhythms. Both are collections of different dances grouped under the same label.

- The two differ in style of folk dance (domestic) and for the stage. Variety
important
-Eastern dance, and almost all the flamenco, has been developed by the Roma.

Differences:

- male Oriental dance is half missing. Flamenco dancing by men, no.

- Flamenco has not entered into serious conflict with the Church. There have been occasional prosecutions, but to summarize, flamenco is not a sin.

- A consequence of this is that the public has flamenco in her home country, people who are not artists but public. Countries of origin of belly dancing have a problematic relationship with the professionalization of the profession.

- Flamenco has never been in danger of extinction. I imagine there may be some who say that Golden Age of Flamenco Puro has passed and that the Flamenco Puro has died, but another day I'll tell you what I think of purity.

- The origins of the fusion between flamenco and pop / rock / other music of British and American flamingos are learned these new cultures. Were not created to please the non-flamenco.

- Spain was colonized by foreign powers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The "inferiority complex" of culture that includes flamenco respect to the majority culture in the West exists, but is more subtle because it is simultaneously an economic and military occupation.

- flamenco Religious expression is almost exclusively sung rather than danced. The religious song, but important and varied not considered the source of all others but its consequence. In contrast, the Eastern dance fantasizes about her religious background, with or without historical evidence.