Gilded
Serpent presents...
Hafla
at the Hoover
featuring
Morocco
February 10, 2008, Hoover Theatre in San Jose,
CA
Produced by The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of MECDA
Video and photos
by Lynette
Debbie Smith on
scene reporter |
Morocco
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Morocco and
Ma*shisha (Pat Cahill) |
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Malia's troupe- - doing Tunisian
Dance |
Una and Troupe Nefisa
Below
Una takes out her famouse belly bracelet to bobble up and
down her tummy |
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Great
affordable food provided by Bahira! |
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Zemira signs
in a dancer |
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12-27-07 Californian
Adventure " Prop til ya Drop" The San Francisco
Chapter of MECDA Gala Concert Dec 3, 2006 Reviewed
by Renee of Australia
A stage presentation is totally different from dancing
at a restaurant, party entertainment, school concerts, haflas and
displays.
At these venues you do not necessarily expect all of the above. The stage gives
dancers the opportunity to strut their stuff in an entirely different light.
10-20-02 Visions
of Delight, A History of Belly Dance in the United States Reviewed
by Bobbie Giarratana & Susie Poulelis
Photos
of
MECDA performers & layout by Susie, Third Annual Bay Area MECDA
Showcase
10-26-01 Dispelling
the Myths: The Many Faces of Belly Dance, by Susie
Poulelis
A Teachers' Showcase July 7, 2001, Berkeley, California
One
of the first events produced by the recently formed San Francisco
Bay Area Chapter of MECDA
2-18-08 A
Night at Wahib's Roxxanne Shelaby's "Pure Sharqi" video
and photos by Lynette
On
January 19, Gilded Serpent was in Los Angeles for Pure Sharqi, a special evening
of live music and dance, hosted by Roxxanne Shelaby (Hypzotica Productions),
at Wahib’s in Alhambra. The evening featured the house band, led by Mouhamad
Salem, along with invited dancers Aubre, Alexandra, the Lumina Dance Company,
Debbie Smith, Sahra Saida, and Roxxanne herself, in addition to the regular house
dance company the Sahlala Dancers.
3-17-08 From
Cabaret to DJ Bellydance
in New York: An Overview, 1988 - 2007 by
Nina Costanza (Amar)
But the primary forums for dancers, the major New
York nightclubs, have closed their doors. Cabaret is gone;
it is the era of the DJ. And the new dancer has to have another
job.
3-17-08 Photos
from Carnival of Stars 2007- A-Z Page 3 Casual photos by Carl
Sermon, Duane Stevens, John Kalb, Murat Bayhan, and Lynette Harris
Novemenber
10 & 11, 2007, produced by Alexandria and Latifa Centennial Hall in Hayward,
California
3-15-08 Love
Stories…The Choreographies of Raqia Hassan, by Astryd Farah
deMichele
A
new feeling emerged about how the music truly is the dance, it creates the
dance…the feelings behind Egyptian music, the soul of the music, are
that which we experience as artists and dance to; for performers, so that it
can be visually displayed.
3-13-08 Enduring
Open Criticism: A Student’s Question about Feeling Humiliated by
Najia Marlyz
What
is wrong with our form of dance today is a direct result of the current trend
for treating dance students as if they were in therapy or grade school (or
both).
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