Research Catalog

Title

Morocco & the Casbah Dance Experience [videorecording]

Publication

1997.

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Details

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.

Subjects

• Dance
• Folk dancing > Egypt
• Belly dance
• Dance > Egypt
• Guedra (Dance)
• Video

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