Middle Eastern dance focuses the viewer's gaze on the torso ¾ the region of the body from the shoulders to the hips ¾ because this is where the rhythms are most frequently displayed Remember that the point is not to expose the body but to illustrate the musical rhythms and express the joy of movement
{i} body of a human being without the head or arms and legs; image or sculpture of a body lacking limbs or the head; something that is incomplete or mutilated
A statue of the human body with the head and limbs either omitted or removed May also refer to the trunk of the human body or to a thing that is truncated or unfinished