I would just like to say what a great dance weekend we just had at the Bluecoat Arts centre for the Liverpool Arab arts festival. The performances sold out and the feedback has been amazing. The whole theatre had a boogy on Saturday night and the atmosphere was fantastic.
The seminar day was not very well attended.. no surprise there then.
The ones who did come really really enjoyed it and thought it was truly excellent.
Shira presented her talk with film extracts about the attitudes towards dancers in the Egypt. All I can say is it was a fabulous presentation and perhaps the best I have seen. The reasons being it was very accesible to all and did not try to be pretentious or over academic. It was skillfully constructed, extremely clear and concise and thoroughly entertaining.
I applaud her on a marvelous piece of work.
I hope that in the future more people make the effort to attend seminars and presentations in their areas as they are really missing out on some valuable learning.
For those who can make it, there are two subtitled films coming up which will enhance your knowledge of Egyptian cluture. Tonight at the Fact centre is Ein Shams (2007) with a presentaion speech before hand by special guest Jack Shaheen (creator or Reel Bad Arabs and father of composer Simon Shaheen)
Next week is the big film and perhaps the last by the great director Yussef Shaheen, the film is called Heya Fawda (Chaos).
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