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• 2-16-09 Badia Masabny, Star Maker of Cairo by Jalilah
  Due to the performance of a Hitler parody, however, Masabny was placed on Hitler's list of people to be executed once he took over Egypt. Fortunately, the Germans never made it to Cairo!
• 2-16-09 Sabah of BDSS video clip from 2008
  Debbie Smith interviews Sabah backstage at the Marin show last year
• 2-12-09 Dancing with Legends: Interview of Freddie Elias Part 2: Clubs and Musicians by Artemis Mourat
  ...and here was an Italian, playing all these Greek melodies. I was mesmerized. I discovered that Greek music is fantastic.
• 2-11-09 Excerpts From Aesthetic Explorations of the Egyptian Oriental Dance Among Egyptian Canadians by Kathleen Fraser
  One respondent attempted a description of Egyptianness in the dance. "Egyptians are plumper, more attractive. What makes the Egyptian style is the costume, soft movements, gentleness (no jumping or jerking), subtlety, dala, the drum, soft music." Charm and liveliness of face contributed to perceived quality of "Egyptianness."
• 2-8-09 Gilded Serpent Frequently Asked Questions. Part 1
  Regarding Reviews
• 2-7-09 BDSS Update: New Choreographers contribute to 2009 Show by Miles Copeland
  I will admit that I have never been a big fan of the more ‘folkloric’ approach to Bellydance, but then again I have to be open to try something new with each show.
• 2-6-09 The Las Vegas Bellydance Intensive 2008: Vegas and Belly Dance Celebrities Report by Mareeshka, photos by Brad Dosland
  Just as its host city brings together Paris’ Eiffel Tower , the fountains of Bellagio, and the pyramid of Luxor , the Bellydance intensive brings together this local talent with international stars, combining traditional cabaret with the latest tribal styles, to create a big event that feels comfortably intimate
• 2-5-09 Fire in your Belly: My Dance Story by Annette Nel of South Africa
  I’ve always wanted to be a dancer. I vividly remember when I was four years old and had just started ballet, the driveway became my stage and the African sun my spotlight as I did plies, twirled, and pitter-pattered on tiptoe to a growing audience of passers-by. I remember curtsying to a young schoolboy who stopped to stare. Today, I realise it wasn’t my extraordinary dancing that stopped them in their tracks.
• 2-4-09 Ask Yasmina #3 Fusion, Travel, Taqsim
  Personally, I am all for any kind of creative expression (blood, snakes, flowers, even fake chicken heads and urine) as long as it comes from a place of inspiration and with the intention to move members of an audience to think about the world around themselves and their own relationship to the substance or reference of choice with a new and wider point of view (maybe an even more loving point of view).
• Sunday at Carnival of Stars, November 9, 2008, Photos by Carl Sermon, Event Sponsors- Pepper Alexandria and Latifa
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• 2-2-09 Bahram Osqueezadeh on Persian Santur video
  Footage captured in August 2008, at the Mendocino Woodlands, Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp.Bahram play for us and talks about his intrument.
• 1-30-09 Say Thank You! Gracefully Accepting Compliments by Chandani
  Responding with a simple “Thank you!” should be rewarding to both parties. By receiving praise from another, you acknowledge that you did your job well. It should be a merry moment that enhances your spirit. You have an accomplishment that you should be proud to share, and the audience member offering you the compliment is acknowledging that your dance has touched something in the life of another.
• 1-27-09 Improvisation, Taqsim, and Teaching, Things I Love by Rahma Haddad, video intro
  Because improvisation is so instantaneous, the performer doesn’t know what he is going to do until he does it. Likewise, the dancer may not remember what was done when the dance is finished. This is why creating improvisational dance is rarely boring.

Reviews

• 2-15-09 Academia? Like it or Trash it!2 Books Reviewed: Dancing Communities & Dancing Fear and Desire by Joette Sawall
  One thing that I have found within our community is the general lack of scholarship and a feminine voice within the research.
• 2-13-09 Tarot:A Fantasy Belly Dance Concert by Thalia
  The large, well rehearsed cast--musicians, temple maidens, acolytes, and servants with a variety of props--deftly played up the campy quality of the piece, contrasting the work's darker messages about the fickle cycles of gain, loss, and impermanence

Community Kaleidoscope
PHOTOS:Baby Sofie, dtr of Amira of LV, Shabnam's troupe at EDF audition
VIDEOS: Sabah of BDSS interviewed back stage by Debbie Smith in 2008

New letters-Miles BDSS update and responses, John B article

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