For more Belly Dance Videos visite my Website: http://orientalhane.de Learn how to belly dance: how to do an insane Bellydance combination with ZADIEL SASMAZ (english) ► Zadiel's Webseite http://www.zadiel.de ► Zadiraks Bellydance Studio in Berlin: http://zadiraks.de ► Shimmi Dance Holidays in Bodrum Turkey: http://shimmi.de ► Orientalhane Bellydance Festival Berlin: http://orientalhane.de ► Zadiel's Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/zadielsasmaz ► Add me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/zadiel.sasmaz Anfragen an: [email protected] Zadiel - Germany's famous and most booked male Belly dancer! Zadiel Sasmaz is original from Turkey, living in Germany, Berlin. He is one of the most important and probably the foremost male Belly Dancer of our time. Subscribe - Like - Share!!! ;) Male belly dancing is hardly a new phenomenon in Turkey. Most zenne dancers date the practice back to the Sultan's court in the final centuries of the Ottoman Empire, when women were largely prohibited from performing onstage. Much as how boys would play women’s parts in Elizabethan Shakespeare, young men – generally ethnic Greeks, Armenians, or Romani, drawn, often unwillingly, from the Empire's non-Muslim population – would be trained as dancers, adopt androgynous or feminine attire and makeup, and – in many cases – moonlight as paid courtesans to noblemen. But after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the secularist Ataturk government – which saw it as its mission to “Westernize” Turkey – zenne dancing, and its often-complicated sexual politics, fell out of favor. And so zenne lingered, mostly surviving in rural areas, including Turkey's more religiously conservative Eastern provinces of Turkey. There, zennes frequently perform (without a sexual element) for straight-identified male audiences Yours, Zadiel