a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/SorxbI4_ccI/AAAAAAAAABY/bbqloWWLmf0/s1600-h/morocco.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 155px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371370954138022338" border="0" alt="Morocco belly dancing" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/SorxbI4_ccI/AAAAAAAAABY/bbqloWWLmf0/s200/morocco.jpg" //aAt Majma, in June 2009, another workshop I attended was with a href="http://www.worldbellydancer.org/2008/12/seminar-with-morocco-during-raqs.html"Morocco/a on a type of Moroccan dance, called shikhat. Shikhat also refers to the women who perform this type of dance in Morocco. They are usually hired for parties, including wedding parties, and they are women with a good amount of life experience. Moroccan shikhat is a very energetic dance, with a lot of movements of the hips and torso, highly suggestive.br /br /Apparently this type of dance is performed for the bride to be, as a sort of education about what will happen on the first night of marriage. Hence, the movements in Moroccan shikhat are much more overtly sensual than, for example, in Egyptian style Raqs Sharqi.br /Shikhat is indeed a very energetic dance and at the end of the two hour workshop with Morocco we were all exhausted!br /br /In December I am going to Morocco to visit some friends and they have already promised me that they will hire some shikhat to dance. I am really looking forward to seeing this dance in its original context. I will keep you posted after my trip to Morocco.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29399419-284057506563448938?l=www.worldbellydancer.org'//divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BellyDanceWorld/~4/ACsnsrQ849U" height="1" width="1"/ More...