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stuff i found on salome dance search on google:
--Salomé, (pronounced SLOM) was the daughter of King Herod Philip (d. AD
34) ruler of Palestine and Herodias. As the story goes: Salomé danced
before King Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee (in the Castle of
Machaerus) who was the incestuous lover of Herodias (Herod's Niece and
Salome's Mother) to get what she wanted. Herod Antipas (BC-d.AD 39) loved
her exotic dancing and would do just about anything to watch Salomé dance.
John the Baptist was publicly disgracing Herodias (Wife of Herod Phillip,
Antipa's half Brother) for Incest and Adultery.
----Herodia's hated John and wanted Antipas to silence him. Herod would
not hear of it and almost teased her with him. On Antipas's Birthday,
Salomé danced before Herod and to fulfill his promise to Salomé (Matt.
xiv. 7), to give her whatever she wanted, she asked for the Head of John
The Baptist, to please her mother Herodias. Herod preferred to commit a
murder rather than to break his vow and disappoint his mistress. Salomé
would later marry Phillip, her father. Thus the BIBLICAL story of Salomé
and John the Baptist (Matthew 14:6-8, Mark vi, 17-29, Jos. Ant XVIII, v
1-4 and St. Luke in the New Testament).
----Salomé became the symbol of a sexually demonic women, as well as
having had overtones of incest, sadism and depravity which you can see in
many art pieces of years past, such as Gustave Moreau's painting,
(1874-86) "Salomé Dancing Before Herod."
---- Salomé's dance was very beautiful, but because of what she did with
her beauty and power of dance, most writers and movie producers gave it a
more evil overtone. Salomé and the Dance of the Seven Veils are basically
the same thing.
---- Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé" was banned in England and later
re-produced in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt in 1894, then later a performance
of Salomé was in 1896 in Paris at the de l'ceuvre theater. The Salomé
Dance was made popular by Gertrude Hoffman in the early nineteen hundreds.
It has been said that "Mademoiselle Dazie" introduced the "Salomé Dance"
in 1907, However Maude Allan made her debut acting and dancing Salome in
the "Vision Of Salomé" in 1903.
--- Striptease, Belly dancing and the "Dance of the Seven Veils" are
linked to the dance of Salomé. The dance of the Seven Veils is basically a
Belly dance routine today and is considered very seductive, using veils,
removed one at a time (see belly dance.) On the descent to the Underworld,
the Goddess Ishtar, has to remove her powers/attributes, one at a time at
each of the Seven gates to descend, this passage depicts the removal of
the Veils. The Salome is based on the "Welcoming back" of Ishtars return.
----Theda Bara, Eva Tanguay and Gaby Desyls danced the Seven Veils dance
professionally in the early 1900's.
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