Egyptian style?

tarasamar · 01-08-2007, 08:35 PM

could someone give me video clips to look at so that i can grasp the overall differences between Egyptian Style and others? I'm a bit confused.

Salome · 01-08-2007, 08:39 PM

Hi,

check the video clips forum here on OrientalDancer.net, and look for Dina, Lucy, and Fifi in thread titles. All have their personal styles but are in the Egyptian style of Oriental.

bushrati mitl harir · 02-17-2007, 10:34 PM

Good advice, ya salome...

sedoniaraqs · 02-17-2007, 11:36 PM

Hi Tarasamar:
I have made a youtube video blog for my students so they can 1) watch the Egyptian dancers and 2) know what exactly they are looking at. The blog is a playlist of videos other people have uploaded, but with my detailed commentary. Well, some of it is detailed; I am still working on it. You can see the blog at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_video...niaraqs&page=1

When you use the blog, just use the small play button at the bottom of each clip to play it and you will stay in my video blog. If you click the play button in the center of each screen you'll leave my blog pages.

One piece of advice I can tell you is that if you want to understand Egyptian style, you need to watch the Egyptian dancers, not American dancers that label themselves as Egyptian in style. (This is not to say no Americans do Egyptian style well, only that there are many that don't).

Hope this helps.

Sedonia

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarasamar

could someone give me video clips to look at so that i can grasp the overall differences between Egyptian Style and others? I'm a bit confused.

sedoniaraqs · 02-17-2007, 11:53 PM

I should add that my video blog contains my opinions (as if this isn't obvious), and also my terminology for moves. I made this for my students, describing movements in the same terms I use in class, so certain terms (e.g. egyptian figure 8, zaki one-hip circle, weighted down hips), may not make sense to anyone else.

Sedonia

Aniseteph · 02-18-2007, 01:06 AM

Some of the terminology travels OK - I know exactly what you mean by blurbly shimmies, and we do chonks (well, try to

) and call them that.

I knew there had to be a good word for what one's derriere and thighs did when you got a good one of that sort of shimmy going - quite clearly it is blurbling

.

samsied · 02-19-2007, 11:38 PM

Thanks Sedonia! I loved your playlist/blog and found it really helpful.

Q-Tip · 05-12-2007, 03:31 AM

while googling "Egyptian belly dance" I came across a link for "Estelle" and her video "The Enchanted Dance"

I've searched the forums for "estelle" and for "enchanted" and none of the threads make reference to this Australian dancer.

Has anyone heard of her?

Is the video any good and/or is it accurate?

sedoniaraqs · 05-12-2007, 03:46 AM

oiy, Estelle. She has some very strange ideas about Egyptian dance. Her website is full of strange statements and factual inaccuracies.

I have not seen her dance, but her dancing has been described to me and it does not sound as though it resembles anything the Egyptian dancers do.

Shira at shira.net reviewed her video. If you go to her website and find her review section you can read it.

Sedonia

edited to add: apparently her video includes something she is labeling as "ancient" Egyptian dance, and she claims it is all highly researched and based on hieroglyphs and tomb paintings. Very highly questionable. Plus she apparently does it topless.

Q-Tip · 05-12-2007, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sedoniaraqs

oiy, Estelle. She has some very strange ideas about Egyptian dance. Her website is full of strange statements and factual inaccuracies.

I have not seen her dance, but her dancing has been described to me and it does not sound as though it resembles anything the Egyptian dancers do.

Shira at shira.net reviewed her video. If you go to her website and find her review section you can read it.

Sedonia

edited to add: apparently her video includes something she is labeling as "ancient" Egyptian dance, and she claims it is all highly researched and based on hieroglyphs and tomb paintings. Very highly questionable. Plus she apparently does it topless.

Thank you very much for the information.

01-08-2007, 08:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
tarasamar Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 12	Egyptian style? could someone give me video clips to look at so that i can grasp the overall differences between Egyptian Style and others? I'm a bit confused.

01-08-2007, 08:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
Salome Super Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA Posts: 1,801	Hi, check the video clips forum here on OrientalDancer.net, and look for Dina, Lucy, and Fifi in thread titles. All have their personal styles but are in the Egyptian style of Oriental.

02-17-2007, 10:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
bushrati mitl harir Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Italy Posts: 12	Good advice, ya salome...

02-17-2007, 11:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
sedoniaraqs Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: cultural wasteland of the midwestern US Posts: 574	I should add that my video blog contains my opinions (as if this isn't obvious), and also my terminology for moves. I made this for my students, describing movements in the same terms I use in class, so certain terms (e.g. egyptian figure 8, zaki one-hip circle, weighted down hips), may not make sense to anyone else. Sedonia

02-18-2007, 01:06 AM	#6 (permalink)
Aniseteph V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 1,686	Some of the terminology travels OK - I know exactly what you mean by blurbly shimmies, and we do chonks (well, try to ) and call them that. I knew there had to be a good word for what one's derriere and thighs did when you got a good one of that sort of shimmy going - quite clearly it is blurbling .

02-19-2007, 11:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
samsied Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 120	Thanks Sedonia! I loved your playlist/blog and found it really helpful.

05-12-2007, 03:31 AM	#8 (permalink)
Q-Tip Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Indiana Posts: 220	while googling "Egyptian belly dance" I came across a link for "Estelle" and her video "The Enchanted Dance" I've searched the forums for "estelle" and for "enchanted" and none of the threads make reference to this Australian dancer. Has anyone heard of her? Is the video any good and/or is it accurate?

05-12-2007, 03:46 AM	#9 (permalink)
sedoniaraqs Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: cultural wasteland of the midwestern US Posts: 574	oiy, Estelle. She has some very strange ideas about Egyptian dance. Her website is full of strange statements and factual inaccuracies. I have not seen her dance, but her dancing has been described to me and it does not sound as though it resembles anything the Egyptian dancers do. Shira at shira.net reviewed her video. If you go to her website and find her review section you can read it. Sedonia edited to add: apparently her video includes something she is labeling as "ancient" Egyptian dance, and she claims it is all highly researched and based on hieroglyphs and tomb paintings. Very highly questionable. Plus she apparently does it topless.