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Originally Posted by Jane
"I invite you to attend this exciting CHOREOGRAPHY workshop for Turkish Gypsy Karsilama 9/8 with Skirt and Tambourine. Can't make it, you can order the DVD. The Kasilama is a style of dance, a rhythm, a religion in Greece and a traveling step. Turkish Dancers end their shows with this exciting dance. You were not considered a Belly Dancer if you could not master 9/8, it was the finale of all our shows in NY"
I got this in my e-mail. Kasilama is a religion?  |
Ok, Jane, you have to reveal who this came from!!
I have heard a lot of BS about 9/8 rhythms, but that one is right up there with Tsiftetelli being a temple dance. Everything in that statement reveals that the writer knows only fake Turkish dance or more kindly, Americanized Turkish dance.
it is true that 9/8 rhythms were the finale in the 5 or 7 part BD performances of the 60's and 70's, and they called the rhythm karshilama but they weren't dancing the dance known in Turkey as karshilama (which is a traditional folk dance.)
I have been told by people with whom I have studied various 9/8 technique, such as Morocco and Helene Eriksen, that skirts and tambourines are not part of authentic Turkish dance of any sort.
I guess it is true that you can travel across the floor with a number of movements that are appropriate for 9/8 rhythms.
I had hopes that some of this BS was dying out.
Marya