Amazing video, had to share:)

MissVega

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While I have loved Kahina's dancing since I first saw it, she is still one of my fav top 3 dancers and favs to watch.
This video has it all, beautiful dancing, great live music (the audio in the video could be better but that is nit picking), gorgeous costume, and such personality and energy.
LOVE LOVE LOVE<3

Okay I'm done gushing like a fan girl lol!

 
Sirène

Sirène

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That was a lot of fun to watch. I've never seen any of her performances before, but now I'm combing through her website videos. :)
 
Mosaic

Mosaic

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Lovely dancer really enjoyable to watch. I love her costume it is really pretty & feminine.
~Mosaic
 
Imeera

Imeera

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Wow! I think she has just become one of my top three too! She is sublime! Thanks for posting!
 
Yshka

Yshka

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Wow Cass and group, I thought the same, her style looked very familiar... :D
Great energy and way of interacting with both audience and musicians, very enjoyable!! Mind if I share on FB? :cool:
 
MissVega

MissVega

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Glad everyone is enjoying it:)

Yshka, of course you can share on facebook. Great performances are meant to be shared.

And thanks, yes I get that a lot lol. Actually the first time I saw a video of her was way back in the day (like 2008 or 2009, can't remember) and our own Yame on the boards here sent me a message or comment (can't remember, Yame do you remember more details?) saying I reminded her of the brazilian dancer Kahina. THANK YOU YAME lol! You introduced me to one of my favs!
lol I consider Kahina my "dance soulmate" if there is such a thing.

I've certainly been inspired by Kahina, her way of dancing is very similar to my instinctive way of moving. Plus I just find her rhythm, flow, ease and joy so enjoyable to watch.

I thought it was funny when I came across a video of her in a pink flower costume last year, I genuinely hadn't seen it before, yet I had made a pink flower costume myself already. They were by no means identical but the concept was the same and it made me giggle to see that we even have similar taste in costumes.

She has been dancing much longer than I have as she has a background in ballet and started belly dance in 1997. Looks to me like she found her calling:)

Kahina: Bailarina de Dança do Ventre
 
Yame

Yame

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MissVega said:
And thanks, yes I get that a lot lol. Actually the first time I saw a video of her was way back in the day (like 2008 or 2009, can't remember) and our own Yame on the boards here sent me a message or comment (can't remember, Yame do you remember more details?) saying I reminded her of the brazilian dancer Kahina. THANK YOU YAME lol! You introduced me to one of my favs!
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Yes, I remember a few more details. I first "found" Kahina in 2008, probably a bit before I "found" you. I couldn't get over her since. Very distinct quality of movement, super loose hips, big relaxed shimmies. Her hip technique was what really made me fall in love, but if you look at her dancing there are just absolutely no flaws. Perfect lines, great arms and hands, great leg and footwork, nice musicality, etc. I wouldn't have noticed all of that back then, but the hipwork really drew me in.

Then I found you, and this was before you had any actual belly dancing videos up, just your booty/Caribbean dancing in your room. It wasn't belly dance but I was amazed by the quality of your movements. Your video had a TON of views, I left a comment on there and to my surprise you responded. So I think at some point I sent you a private message about belly dance and how you should totally do it, bla bla bla... you mentioned Natalia Fadda and how you really liked her dancing and I told you about Kahina and said you are the only person I'd ever seen who had the potential to dance like her. The rest is history.

I didn't know it back then but you both also have a similar energy on stage. Actually having seen you both dance in person, you have even more energy on stage than she does, but I think I still have yet to see a more energetic dancer than you, lol. And you both work your crowds like crazy.

The main similarity, which was always there, is really in the quality of hip movement, the shimmies, etc. The second thing that I think helps people see the connection is the fact that you guys have a somewhat similar body shape and skin color. Sometimes people dance similarly, but no one makes the connection because they look nothing alike.

The main differences are in Kahina's ballet training vs. your Caribbean background, but even there you see the parallels. I think Kahina never really dances fully without the ballet influence as you never dance fully without Caribbean influence, but sometimes you both choose to fuse the outside dance training in more than others or do performances that are almost purely the other genre.
 
Yame

Yame

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MissVega said:
She has been dancing much longer than I have as she has a background in ballet and started belly dance in 1997. Looks to me like she found her calling:)

Kahina: Bailarina de Dança do Ventre
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Just to add a bit more to that little bio:

Kahina was a ballet dancer (either dancing professionally or at least very, very seriously) before she started belly dancing in 1997. She took naturally to belly dance and was already performing belly dance professionally by around 2000.

Right now I believe she is 27 or 28 years old, so she has been dancing in general since she was a little child and belly dancing specifically since she was a teenager. In college, she majored in dance, so she has training in other dance forms as well as her two main "specialties."

She still continues with her ballet training and teaches ballet in her belly dance studio, and performs heavily ballet-inspired pieces at belly dance events in Brazil, as well as her "regular" belly dance performances.

Right now she is one of the most demanded belly dance performers and teachers in the country, at such a young age... her main belly dance teacher was Soraia Zaied, before she left for Cairo, but she was also a student of Lulu Sabongi's. You can see both their influences in her dancing, as well as the influence of her Egyptian inspirations, Soheir Zaki, Randa Kamel, etc.
 
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