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Ibrahim Farrah presents the Jamal Twins

Title
Ibrahim Farrah presents the Jamal Twins [videorecording].
Publication
[198-?]

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Additional Authors
  • Farrah, Ibrahim.
  • Jamal Twins.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (90 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Performance of belly dancing (motion picture followed by live performance) featuring the Jamal Twins (sometimes billed as the Jamal Sisters). The two women were known as Leila and Lamia; their real names, Lyn and Lys [spelled Line and Lise on the film that precedes the live performance], are used here by the master of ceremonies, Ibrahim Farrah.
Subject
  • Belly dance
  • Dancers > Egypt
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at Fazil's Dance Center, New York, N.Y., in the 1980s.
Contents
  • Danses orientales [film] (ca. 20 min.) / recorded from screen; production credits in French. Egyptian film, dating from the early 1950s. The Jamal Twins are featured in an unidentified opening dance, followed by the Danse du chandelier [with candelabra], Danse Saidi [with canes], and Danse fellahi [with zils].
  • [Live performance:] [Dance] (ca. 8 min.) / by the Jamal Twins -- "Modern" oriental dance (ca. 7 min.) / choreography, Ibrahim Farrah; danced by Samara and Jehan -- Dance of the sugar doll (ca. 4 min.) / danced by Lyn -- Dance of the ma'laya (ca. 3 min.) / danced by Lys -- Pharaonic dance (ca. 6 min.) / music, Luigini (Ballet egyptien); danced by the Jamal Twins -- [Dancing girls] (ca. 8 min.) / danced by Jehan and Samara -- Dance fellaha (?) (ca. 5 min.) / danced by the Jamal Twins -- [Instrumental music] (ca. 8 min.) / performed by the percussionists -- Raks al-Assaya (ca. 6 min.) / danced by the Jamal Twins -- Question-and-answer session with the Jamal Twins (ca. 11 min.) -- Closing music.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8194
OCLC
NYPY05-F10186
Title
Ibrahim Farrah presents the Jamal Twins [videorecording].
Imprint
[198-?]
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Performer
[Master of ceremonies:] Ibrahim Farrah.
Danced by the Jamal Twins, with Jehan and Samara.
Event
Videotaped in performance at Fazil's Dance Center, New York, N.Y., in the 1980s.
Added Author
Farrah, Ibrahim. hst, choreographer.
Jamal Twins.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8194
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