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Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience

Title
Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience [videorecording]
Publication
1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Hamdi, Nadia
  • Morocco (Dancer), 1940-
  • Shoshana
  • Nordgren, Katia
  • McPherson, Dianne
  • Near East Dance Theatre.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Morocco.
Subject
  • Belly dance
  • Guedra (Dance)
  • Dance > Egypt
  • Folk dancing > Egypt
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Accompanied by house program.
Credits (note)
  • Sound, lighting, stage manager, Wanda Ruggiera.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at the Haft Theater, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, N.Y., on April 5, 1997 ; video and editing, Talaya Grimes ; additional video, Thaweep "Boom" Suvagondha.
Contents
  • Guedra: benediction and betrothal / trance dance of the "Blue People" of the Sahara ; choreography, Morocco ; danced by the Casbah Dance Experience: Zanna Lanfray (blessing, standing), Ajeeba and Leila (blessing, kneeling), Nesrin (mother), Varvara (bride), Tarik abd el Malik (groom).
  • Raks el assaya (Cane dance) / folkloric Egyptian dance ; danced by Dorothea.
  • Goddess dance / concept, arrangement and costumes, Ayshe ; danced by Shoshana (goddess), Ayshe and Rayhana (handmaidens).
  • Ya abu had / modern Egyptian dance ; choreography, Tarik abd el Malik ; danced by Semerad.
  • Al anar (I'm afire) / dance in modern Egyptian theater folk style ; choreography, Katia ; danced by Katia, Sumaiya, Amera of Near East Dance Theatre.
  • Al ain moulayetein / modern folkloric dance (Egypt and Levant) ; danced by Habiba.
  • Salametha om hassan / Egyptian and Zar rhythms ; choreography, Shadia Malouf-Tohme ; Zar rhythms composed by Shadia and Ibrahim Malouf, played by Shadia Malouf and Tony Chamoun ; danced by Nourhan Sharif.
  • Id-dars (The lesson) / Egyptian style comic theater folklore ; choreography, Katia ; danced by Izmira and Sumaiya of Near East Theatre.
  • Raks al shemadan (Candelabrum dance) / choreography, Zouba el Kloptiyya ; danced by Nadia Hamdi.
  • Fella/fellaha / upper Egyptian folk dance ; music, Metkal Kenawi ; danced by Casbah Dance Experience: Tarik abd el Malik (fella), Morocco (fellaha), entire company (village women).
  • Idalla ala kefek / danced by Gamila el Masri.
  • Blue perfume / Egyptian jazz fusion ; choreography and performance, Dunya ; music, Roman Bunka.
  • Raks sharki salad: Male solo / [music?], "Tabeli ya susu," "Dakt il mizmar ; danced by Tarik abd el Malik -- Female Oriental solo / [music?], "A la kefek," "Amouna fi said" ; danced by Morocco -- Bahlam beek duet / danced by Morocco and Tarik abd el Malik.
  • Raks sharki / danced by Nadia Hamdi.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3891
OCLC
NYPY00-F539
Title
Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience [videorecording]
Imprint
1997.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Haft Theater, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, N.Y., on April 5, 1997 ; video and editing, Talaya Grimes ; additional video, Thaweep "Boom" Suvagondha.
Credits
Sound, lighting, stage manager, Wanda Ruggiera.
Performer
Danced by Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience: Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu), Tarik abd el Malik (Tyrone Bailey), Nesrin (Linda Lugo), Zanna (Susan Lanfray), Leila (Leigh Brown), Varvara (Barbara Rouse), Ajeeba (Jan Hassan-Butera).
Special guest star: Nadia Hamdi.
Special guest artists: Ayshe (Linda Sloboda), Dunya (Diane McPherson), Gamila el Masri, Shoshana (Wendy Soto), Rayhana (Margaret Famulary), Habiba (Donna Marie Floyd), Nourhan Sharif (Michelle Giuliano-Rosciti), Semerad (Judy Anscombe), Dorothea (Dorothea Rourke-O'Regan) ; members of Near East Dance Theatre: Katia (Katia Nordgren), Sumaiya (Marjorie Ricci), Amera (Anita Davies), Izmira (Dotsi Eden).
Added Author
Hamdi, Nadia, dancer.
Morocco (Dancer), 1940- choreographer, dancer.
Shoshana, dancer.
Nordgren, Katia, choreographer, dancer.
McPherson, Dianne, dancer.
Near East Dance Theatre.
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3891
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