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- 4-18-09 Dance
of the Nile part 3: Meleya by Gamila El Masri
The erk sous seller spies a pretty young thing in
a melaya (and pink bloomers). He coaxes her to have a cup; they flirt.
He chases her, she runs away.
- 4-16-07 Print
Magazines on
Middle Eastern Dance - New Resource Page
37 titles, past and present, active and extinct
- 4-15-09 Magnouna
in Cairo, aka My Cairo Adventures in April 2008 by Catherine Barros
The tally of dance shows for this trip was 3 Nile
dinner cruises (Lorna
Gow, Basima and Leila), the Tannoura show, Dina (at
the Semiramis) and the Opening Gala at the Nile Group Festival (Dalia,
Liza Laziza, Leila, Hayem, and Asmahan).
- 4-13-09 Recognizing
Accomplishment: Atlantis! by Helena Vlahos
I get so excited over the events they are producing,
that I have no thoughts about them as dancers. All I think about is the
person who is performing or teaching and the merchandise that the venders
are selling. I only think of the sponsors as being effective with the
business side of Bellydancing.
- 4-9-09 A
Quest for Beauty, Part 1: Beauty is Discovered by Zorba
My wife of 17 years asked, "You’re going to do.
what?"when
I told her of my desire to take Bellydance lessons.
- 4-1-09 Where
is the Goddess in a Vertical Drop and a Shimmy? How Can the Practice
of Bellydance Lead the Dancer to a State of Grace or Enlightenment? by
Yasmina Ramzy
The most important practice of almost all mystical
paths is meditation. It is universal and does not need a frame of reference
from any particular theology.
- 3-31-09 Mina's
1001 Arabian Nights, photos by Michael Baxter, text by Mina, the
producer
1001 Arabian Nights started with asking several
of the community troupe directors and teachers I’ve known over
the year if they would like to create a show with me. They all seemed
very excited about the prospect of doing something "different" in
the dance community.
- 3-30-09 The
Bellydance Museum: An Accident of Fate? by Stief
Soon, I found out my collection of Arabic instruments,
ancient jewelry, and our shared bank account were all gone along with
my ex-wife. The only thing I could find was a small part of my picture
collection, which I now had to sell in order to stay alive.
- 3-28-09 Producing "Tales
of Desire"; a Tribal Fusion Bellydance Experience by Sherri
We felt that the buzz in the community was that
people were getting tired of seeing the same performers on every performance
DVD that came out, so we really tried to mix it up and offer a more varied
line up.
- 3-26-09 Teaching
American Bellydance: Ich Bin Ein Berliner! by Una
Amazing! The members of the workshop wanted more
and more—and even Horacio
began trying out my veil moves.
- 3-29-09 Page
2 of Memorial Photos of Bert Balladine, supplied by the Community
- 3-20-09Tania
Luiz A Romany Fusion Artist in Osaka by Artemis Mourat
At this time I think I was longing for a well-documented
dance, old and structured. I was a little sad because I saw how people
who were not properly trained but who just had a costume would teach
Oriental dance. Plus the deep connections of Indian dance to the Divine
were very interesting to me. At the end of it all, I realized that my
body, my soul and my blood are meant to do Oriental.
- 3-19-09 Indonesia's
Introduction to Belly Dance: The Mainstream Media's Influence by
Fahmia Bandib
Extensive mainstream media attention has been a
mixed bag of blessings and, well, “somewhat
less than blessings,” as most Indonesians would diplomatically say.
- 3-17-09 Sahba
Motallebi demonstrates the Tar and Setar, new video in our Musical
Instrument Tour
Also included is footage of Sahba on stage performing
with Bahram Osqueezadeh on
the Persian Santur and Rowan Storm on the frame drum.
Reviews
- 4-17-09 Two
Dance CDS for Performance and Listening, "The
Soul of Cairo" & "The Masters of Bellydance Music" review
by Amina Goodyear
This family is dedicated to producing (and also
finding) the latest and most popular bellydance music as well as reissuing
classic albums in a remastered format with updated liner notes.
- 4-7-09 Middle
Eastern Dance Theater:Erotic Chantal and Mythogical Ishtar Reviews
by Joette
This is where I had to stop and get a drink of water.
Thrusting pelvises on the pyramids was wild and not at all the way had
I remembered the pyramids!
- 3-27-09 ASWAT:
Arabic Music Concert by Rebecca Firestone, held
Saturday, January 25, 2009 Skyline College, San Francisco, California
They'd hired a different director this time, all
the way from Cairo, Dr.
Sari Dowidar. Dr. Dowidar got professional results even out of amateur performers
- probably by pushing them hard. That kind of pressure isn't always fun, but
it really pays off. Maqams (maqamaat) are hard enough for the uneducated ear
to distinguish without muddying the waters further with inaccurate pitch and
tone.
- 3-14-09 So,If
You Cut up a Rose, is it still a Flower? Fusing Bellydance With Other Dance
Forms by Rebecca Firestone
A reader’s position at this point will depend
on whether you think that bellydance and Middle Eastern dance are one and
the same, and whether you feel any particular sense of ownership over either
one of those terms.
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