Belly Dance
Hipline Dance Company
Hipline Dance Company: Mission statement
The Hipline Dance Company is a professional dance company that respects the traditions and characteristic movements of Arabic Dance (“Raqs Sharqi”) while also allowing for creative and contemporary expression of this ever-evolving art form. Hipline challenges popular misconceptions of Belly Dance as “exotic” and objectifying and instead celebrates this dance as an expression of women’s strength, femininity, and technical and creative abilities. The company hopes to engage a wide variety of audiences in this dynamic, elegant, artistic, and exciting dance.
Goals for the company:
• To set a standard for Belly Dance: technically strong, beautiful, elegant,
creative dance, performed by strong women
• To represent Belly Dance as a reputable, respectable and legitimate art form
that is accessible and relatable to varied audiences
• To respect and be grounded in characteristic movements of Arabic dance but also able
to be influenced by contemporary expressions, movement, and music
• To challenge popular misconceptions of Belly Dance as “exotic” and objectifying and
instead to celebrate women’s femininity, creativity, and strength
• To perform group choreographies on-stage at selected dance festivals
• To inspire creativity and inspiration to other women who might be encouraged
to explore Belly Dance and Arabic music