Video Find of the Day
Here's something different. It's bellydance music without the dancer. Parsing the title of the video: Oud; the guitar-like thingy. Darbuka, AKA Doumbek: the tabla thingy. Nebtidi Mnain El Hikaya: the title of the music. I can't parse more than that.
Oud Darbuka Nebtidi Mnain El Hikaya
Showing posts with label bellydance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bellydance. Show all posts
Monday, September 8, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Odalisca and Derbake
Video Find of the Day
Performance in Argentina at a Syrian Orthodox Association (?) of an odalisca, which is what you might also call a harem dance. The dancer has the representation of the fire element down.
Sinahid Dajhmar, Pablo Jasale y Matías Almirón Al Henain
Another new word: derbake. It means the drum (tabla or tabla-like drum) you hear as well as the dance that goes with it. I think this one is also from Argentina, though it's hard to tell. The dancer is Cintia Ibarra.
Derbake solista
Performance in Argentina at a Syrian Orthodox Association (?) of an odalisca, which is what you might also call a harem dance. The dancer has the representation of the fire element down.
Sinahid Dajhmar, Pablo Jasale y Matías Almirón Al Henain
Another new word: derbake. It means the drum (tabla or tabla-like drum) you hear as well as the dance that goes with it. I think this one is also from Argentina, though it's hard to tell. The dancer is Cintia Ibarra.
Derbake solista
Monday, March 3, 2008
Mediterranean Dance, Almost
Video Find of the Day
I found this by accident. I was looking for Bulgarian bellydance music. Instead I found a Bulgarian woman dancing to Egyptian bellydance on Bulgarian TV. Well, close. 1000 miles, maybe. Black Sea, Mediterranean, what's the difference?
In case you're as confused as possible, her name is наталия дачева, the music is by Mokhtar Al-Said.
Bulgarian girl dancing bellydance (MOKHTAR AL SAID)
I found this by accident. I was looking for Bulgarian bellydance music. Instead I found a Bulgarian woman dancing to Egyptian bellydance on Bulgarian TV. Well, close. 1000 miles, maybe. Black Sea, Mediterranean, what's the difference?
In case you're as confused as possible, her name is наталия дачева, the music is by Mokhtar Al-Said.
Bulgarian girl dancing bellydance (MOKHTAR AL SAID)
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Egyptian Bellydance
Video Find of the Day
A short but awesome video of a Russian bellydancer performing Egyptian style at a Cairo show.
Nour - Tabla Solo (Egyptian belly dance)
A short but awesome video of a Russian bellydancer performing Egyptian style at a Cairo show.
Nour - Tabla Solo (Egyptian belly dance)
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Sleeping Anima on a Bus
and Video Find of the Day
Yesterday I was riding a bus north on 3rd Avenue in Seattle toward the Real Change newspaper office sitting at one of the front seats that face sideways to the aisle. One stop before mine a woman who looked like she was in her 60s walked up the aisle to get off. My feet, which are not that big, were as far out of the way as they could be, but this woman still managed to kick into the toe of one of my shoes.
She looked down as if she couldn't believe that someone would put a log in her path. Then she followed up my leg and up my body with her eyes to my face.
As she saw my face, I expected an "excuse me" or an "oh, I didn't see your foot there" or at least a "your foot was in my way" for me to argue with. Instead of apologizing or giving me an argument she just stared at me as though I were a manikin.
Instinctively I felt the need to exhibit life. So I grinned at the woman and said, "Hello!" cheerfully.
She startled! She really hadn't been seeing me as animate! I've never seen that reaction before in anyone. How sad to be unable to see other people as alive. It's like one of those weird conditions Oliver Sacks would write about.
Most of us have a built-in function that automatically imbues other humans with powers of animation, so we expect life and we're surprised when we don't see it. Jung associated the function with the Anima archetype. The woman of our example has an Anima or she wouldn't have been startled, but her Anima had been sleeping, you could say. The function usually operates unconsciously in the background of our minds and souls so we don't notice it working. Hers wasn't operating unconsciously; it wasn't operating at all.
Which brings me to why I love bellydancing. It isn't so much as you might think, that I love looking at pretty women undulating. No, it's because when bellydancing is done well it sends that animation-recognizing function into overdrive, to where I can feel it taking hold of me. It makes that unconscious conscious.
Here's a beautifully styled bellydance by a woman named Sashi, which was posted on YouTube almost a year ago, but somehow I missed it until now. It's a perfect example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. You have your own Anima handed to you.
Sashi Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance
and another,
Yesterday I was riding a bus north on 3rd Avenue in Seattle toward the Real Change newspaper office sitting at one of the front seats that face sideways to the aisle. One stop before mine a woman who looked like she was in her 60s walked up the aisle to get off. My feet, which are not that big, were as far out of the way as they could be, but this woman still managed to kick into the toe of one of my shoes.
She looked down as if she couldn't believe that someone would put a log in her path. Then she followed up my leg and up my body with her eyes to my face.
As she saw my face, I expected an "excuse me" or an "oh, I didn't see your foot there" or at least a "your foot was in my way" for me to argue with. Instead of apologizing or giving me an argument she just stared at me as though I were a manikin.
Instinctively I felt the need to exhibit life. So I grinned at the woman and said, "Hello!" cheerfully.
She startled! She really hadn't been seeing me as animate! I've never seen that reaction before in anyone. How sad to be unable to see other people as alive. It's like one of those weird conditions Oliver Sacks would write about.
Most of us have a built-in function that automatically imbues other humans with powers of animation, so we expect life and we're surprised when we don't see it. Jung associated the function with the Anima archetype. The woman of our example has an Anima or she wouldn't have been startled, but her Anima had been sleeping, you could say. The function usually operates unconsciously in the background of our minds and souls so we don't notice it working. Hers wasn't operating unconsciously; it wasn't operating at all.
Which brings me to why I love bellydancing. It isn't so much as you might think, that I love looking at pretty women undulating. No, it's because when bellydancing is done well it sends that animation-recognizing function into overdrive, to where I can feel it taking hold of me. It makes that unconscious conscious.
Here's a beautifully styled bellydance by a woman named Sashi, which was posted on YouTube almost a year ago, but somehow I missed it until now. It's a perfect example of the kind of thing I'm talking about. You have your own Anima handed to you.
Sashi Gothic Tribal Fusion Bellydance
and another,
Friday, June 1, 2007
Belly Dancing at Folklife
I got two pieces by Gypsy Caravan Dance Company (music by Mizna). Unfortunately the sound is worse than usual for the second. Not my fault! Stupid speakers.
The program had "Rags Serpentine -- Modern Dance Meets Bellydance" for the next one.
Nashita does Tribal Fusion Bellydance:
This next is the Shahrazad Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble.
The show ended with performances by Zaphara's Middle Eastern Dancers, Egyptian Cabaret Bellydancing. Here's one I got before my cheap camera told me it was full.
The program had "Rags Serpentine -- Modern Dance Meets Bellydance" for the next one.
Nashita does Tribal Fusion Bellydance:
This next is the Shahrazad Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble.
The show ended with performances by Zaphara's Middle Eastern Dancers, Egyptian Cabaret Bellydancing. Here's one I got before my cheap camera told me it was full.
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