Artemis Mourat and Seido
Salifosky |
Gilded Serpent
presents...
Folktour's 2nd Annual
Music and Dance Camp
Pennsylvania,
May 2004
Photos by Carl Miller
Report by Mark Balahadia
Ed-more
names with faces needed!
The
Middle Eastern Dance Folktours Camp, hosted by Artemis
Mourat and Tayyar Akdeniz in
May of 2004 was an immense success. Dancers and musicians
from all over the East Coast (and abroad) came to participate
in the four-day oriental dance and music camp.
Dancers
enrolled in Egyptian styling classes with Nourhan
Sharif, Turkish style with Artemis,
American Tribal Style with Kajira
Djoumahna, Dabka with Karim Nagi
Mohammed, and Balkan line dancing with Steven
Kotansky. Musicians could participate in classes
about a variety of instruments including davul, riqq,
darbukka, and many others. Turkish and Arab maqam was
also offered.
Every
night finished with open dancing until the wee hours
of the morning. The band played both Turkish and Arabic
favorites, including Rampi Rampi, Zeina, and Habibi Ya
Eini. Saturday night featured a Turkish show with Artemis,
Tayyar, and Kajira, along with peformances by the camp
participants. The Saturday show spotlighted an Arabic
show with Nourhan and camper performances. Some bright
moments of both nights included Artemis and Tayyar’s
Turkish Romany duet, Nourhan’s Raks Al Assaya,
and Karim’s energetic dabka performance.
Hope to see you at the next camp in May of 2005!
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Arabic line dance, Debka |
Nourhan Sharif teaching Egyptian
Oriental dance |
Souren Baronian teaching Riq |
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Kajira Djoumahna of Black
Sheep Belly dance |
Tayyar Akdeniz jamming |
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Teachers and Campers jamming |
Open dancing |
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Band pictures from Saturday night |
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Happy Campers |
Soner Cicek teaching Saz
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Vending
at the camp |
Nourhan
Sharif performing Rakset Assaya |
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Dancing
giant puppets |
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Davul
class with Tayyar Akdeniz |
More
photos and information on next years camp here- http://folktours.com/
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Begun
in the mid-1970's , the early sections of "Sirat Al-Ghawazi" were
first published under the title "The Mystery of the
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