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Originally Posted by A'isha Azar
Dear Tarik,
I have seen Nafia Hamdi do it also, but with nowhere near the western accent that girl has. Her lock on the top of the movement was far less jazz-like. She also used it in a routine I learned from her once. (Perhaps it was lack of control or something on this girl??)That kind of reverse undulation is something that we were discussing over on another thread and Morocco said it was a western movement the Raqia Hassan adopted, though I have seen Lucy and others do as much more refined version as far back as the late 70s.
Regards,
A'isha
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It could be a lack of skill. Let's put it this way, the really good dancers aren't in places like Sharam and certainly not dancing back up. From what I have seen when I video taped his show, these girls are rather amaturish. I've seen other dancers in "low scale settings" shall we say and they just ain't that great. It could also be a case, like with Rakia, of them seeing things we do and picking up on it. The last time I was in Egypt I was really dissapointed because everyone I saw was very brassy and beating the music to death till it screamed for mercy. Honestly, they were running all over the place like they were trying to evacuate Pompeii at the last minute and doing all the movements really big and hard. I really hope its not going to become a new trend.