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[Ibrahim Farrah]
- Title
- [Ibrahim Farrah] [videorecording]
- Publication
- [199-?]
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Reel 2 | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-8012 Reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Reel 1 | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-8012 Reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Farrah, Ibrahim.
- Description
- 2 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (124 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Ibrahim Farrah (full name Robert Ibrahim Farrah, also known as Bobby), an eminent performer, teacher, and scholar of Middle Eastern dance, and the founder/publisher of Arabesque magazine, appears in an interview and as the teacher of a class in belly dancing.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Phyllis Saretta.
- Series Statement
- Ibrahim Farrah Archives.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Note
- Unedited footage.
- Contents
- Cassette 1. [Interview with Ibrahim Farrah] (ca. 61 min.) / recorded in New York City in the mid-1990s. Speaking to an off-camera female interviewer, Ibrahim Farrah discusses his family's roots in Lebanon; growing up in a close-knit Lebanese immigrant community in western Pennsylvania; his early experience of dance as a tradition handed down from one generation to another; founding Arabesque magazine as a means of correcting the paucity of information on Middle Eastern dance; the social and political forces behind the fad for belly dancing in America of the 1970s; American attitudes to the Middle East; stereotypical images of Middle Eastern dance, and the reality behind them; dance and the status of women in the Middle East. The interview appears to be incomplete; at ca. 58 min. into the tape, Farrah, the interviewer, and others off-camera announce a break and converse more informally.
- Cassette 2. [Belly dancing class taught by Ibrahim Farrah] (ca. 63 min.) / recorded at Fazil's Dance Center, New York, N.Y. Parts of the recording use special camera techniques which alter the image and flow of movement; some parts emphasize camera work rather than the documentation of the class.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8012
- OCLC
- NYPY04-F511
- Title
- [Ibrahim Farrah] [videorecording]
- Imprint
- [199-?]
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Ibrahim Farrah Archives.
- Performer
- Interviewee: Ibrahim Farrah.
- Added Author
- Farrah, Ibrahim. Interviewee. Teacher
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8012