Brea

Cathy's post has clarified what I've always been trying to say as well. Like Zorba!

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Zorba

Just because I know Tarik would kill me - I won't mention what gesture just happens to be coincidentally choreographed into a Shemadan duette a certain fairly well-known female dancer and I are putting together right now!

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Twilight Spiral

Woo, this thread took off.

Ok, I have been doing research and working on my music collection, but I am kind of confused about some of styles of dance.

So many say that Egyptian is a style that is more free when it comes to movements, but that is the part that is confusing me. Does it have an area of the dance that it focus on one like the hips or upper body movement? I am not really sure.

I have also been trying to find a dance style that uses the gypsy skirt, but I am going up dead. I know it is out there, I saw a troupe use them, I just don't remember for what style.

Then there is tribal fusion, I am not sure what I am looking at. It is said to be a mixture of the different belly dances with modern styles...Correct if I am wrong, but it seems...Well too modern. I have seen videos on youtube that were just weird. They didn't look like belly dance. Something more lie from "You Think You Can Dance." Can someone please help me understand these better? I have used the search, but I honestly can't pin point what I am looking.

Eve

http://www.serpentine.org/artemis/skirtdance.html

does this help any?

Shahravar

The whirling dervish are generally male and wear skirts.

Zorba

My instructor taught us an "Andalusian Skirt Dance" which was a lot of fun! Big, full, "Gypsy" skirts.

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Twilight Spiral

Eve- This is very, very, very, helpful, thank you very much ^__^

Shahravar- Umm, I have done some studying on the Dervishes and what they do is not a dance in so many words. It is really a form of mediation they do to reach their religious ecstasy.

Though the it has become a attraction for tourist.

I don't mean you question or knowledge, I just mean to correct you. Sorry if it came off any other way.

Zorba- I believe I saw a video with you doing a skirt dance. Thank you Zorba, this is a huge help ^^

Shahravar

Yes the whirling dervish are a religion a sect of Islam I think. But in modern tourist times you can see it performed for "audience members"


here is a fella in Hurghada, Egypt. I have seen a few clips with lights even...amazing.YouTube - Whirling Dervish
I hope the link works I haven't posted one yet.

here is the more traditional/religious YouTube - Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul

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Twilight Spiral

I thought I would add another though to this thread, it really just came to me. I think it is rather interesting.

I haven't practiced in awhile and school and work seem to kill it. Well, I have read so many books about people who are blind, but in fact are great at other skills.

Now please note this a random idea so be nice, please?

Has anyone ever thought of dancing with a blind fold? I mean the thought seems exotic. By blinding our eyes we put more trust in the movement and beat of the music.

I know it can't be done with many dances since they take much space and we need our sight to crash into a light of wall. What do all you think?

da Sage

It's an intriguing idea, but I feel dancing with blindfold or eyes closed is best done for oneself - it doesn't make a very good show. Most audiences would find it alienating, like a dance done in a mask, but more so.

That said, I have danced with eyes closed while trying to integrate a new step with a less-used finger cymbal pattern. That was for training purposes, to eliminate distractions. It was a successful technique.