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Hey dear readers- remember a couple of posts back, I mentioned that ten years ago, during the first Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival, I had gotten into a big heap o' crazy trouble? About seven years ago, I wrote a short-story chronicling the events that transpired in Cairo on that trip. It wound up getting in the anthology "Pills, Thrills, Chills And Heartaches: Adventures In The First Person", published by Alyson Books. So, here it is, in all it's kookie glory.
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LADY DON’T BE PANIC!
The fat businessman flashing his brassiere in the middle of the street should’ve been a red flag, but being a Hollywood native, stuff like that happens to me on an everyday basis, so it took a moment to register that I wasn’t at home, but in Cairo. I'm a freak-magnet. Weird circumstances and insane people actively seek me out. Once in a while, the way five-year-old girls dream about being Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan, I have fantasies about living like “everybody else”- but no matter how hard I try to behave, to act normal, it never seems to work.
I was traveling with my friend Tracy, whose stage name is Layla. We both belly dance professionally, had been to Egypt before, but this time we were in Cairo for the huge Ahlan Wa Sahlan dance festival featuring classes an
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Global Glances
Homage to Mahmoud Reda: A Life for Dancing
Full-Tilt Boogie presents: Belly – Sensual, Scarred, Sacred
DVD Review by Zumarrad
For some, the pleasure of dance is about community bonding. For others, it’s about reverence for roots. In this review I look at two quite different DVDs that demonstrate how belly dance has travelled to places outside its first homes in the Middle East, and some of the ways participants there have expressed what it means to them.
The Andalusi and Arabic Dance International Festival Raks Madrid 05 presents
Homage to Mahmoud Reda: A Life for Dancing
This DVD records a 2005 theatre show directed by Nesma of Madrid, in honour of the pioneer Egyptian folkloric choreographer Mahmoud Reda’s 75th birthday, featuring dance companies from Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Switzerland. Nesma is an ex-Reda Troupe dancer and according to the DVD’s cover, all the choreographies are by Reda, who is present for the show (as isFarida Fahmy, whom you see briefly onstage at the end).
I have not had the opportunity to watch many of Reda’s movies, so none of these choreographies (with the exception of the Ranet al Kholkhal duet), or their contexts, are familiar to me. However I believe any lover of Reda-style Egyptian folkloric danc
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Master Zilling decree Movement
The Clog up of Performing Finger Cymbals with Momo Kadous
DVD Look at by Zumarrad
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