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New Articles on www.gildedserpent.com -Web Magazine for Mid East Performing Arts

• 3-17-06 Photos of Friday Evening show from Aida Nour & Magdy El-Leisy Workshop 2006 Photos by Lynette Harris & staff
  sponsored by Little Egypt held on Feb 24, 2006 in Los Angeles, California,
• 3-16-06 Giza Awards 2005, A Cultural Odyssey, by Rebecca Firestone
  Can it be that the West has been so involved in learning technique and choreography that the very soul of the dance has been left to those in the Middle East who are desperately struggling to keep their art alive?
• 3-16-06 Fahteim in Vegas by Neferteri
  The Las Vegas 2006 belly dance season is off to a phenomenon beginning!
• 3-15-06 Princess Farhana's Instructional DVD Bellydance Basics Reviewed by Monet
  The best section in the video is the “Figure Eight.” P. Farhana does an excellent job explaining all types carefully.
• 3-14-06 Hosting Australia’s Leonie and Alpen Sukan by Samiya
  What was going to be another dance choreography workshop weekend turned into a weekend of dancing and drumming. It is now over year later, and people are still talking about that weekend.
• 3-10-06 "Just Dance," Says Aida, A conversation with Aida Nour by Lynette Harris
  She likes improvisation, and says that if a dancer has very good technique and a good ear for the music she should “just dance.”
• 3-7-06 Streets of Cairo- Egyptian Rhythm, Language and Dance by Keti Sharif
  Cairo's streets are much like its dance – streams of freestyle movement guided by intuition rather than rules. There are no 'principles' as such in both circumstances – it’s the organic-ness of Egyptian life that creates order in chaos.
• 3-5-06 Cairo 2005 How to Eat, Drink, Sleep, and Breathe Raqs Sharqi, Part Two of Four-Dance Lessons by Andrea
  In Egypt, if a woman is only going to wear one item of make-up, it will be black eyeliner.
• 3-3-06 How MECDA Began Part II, To Whom It May Concern by Mish Mish El-Atrash
  I was very curious to hear what Fairuz had to say about how M.E.C.D.A. began, as I was one of the original dancers to organize it.
• 2-28-06 Loay Dahbour: Kuwaiti Drum Pro Interview by Yosifah Rose
  In addition to teaching us about drum solos, Loay also took some time to share with us his valuable insights as a musician after working for the past thirteen years with hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area Bellydancers.

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