Belly Dance Essentials Homework 5/26/2011
Reading for Sword I’ve organized some class reading and found some pretty awesome video clips worth perusing, so here are your reading/viewing assignments for this session: Sword and Balancing Dances I’ve updated the guidelines that were on the PDF and put them here: Sword, Tips, Tricks and Guidelines Also if you haven’t already contributed a …
Belly Dance Essentials Homework 4/8/2011
Sword We’ve been developing several different combinations in class. I’d note them for you, but I’m pretty sure they’d be completely indecipherable, so do your best in class. You might want to bring a notebook. For your homework, I’ve prepared a handout for a sword workshop that you can download here: Sword Science Workshop Notes …
Belly Dance Essentials Homework 3/8/2011
The second piece of music we are using in Essentials is: Finger Cymbal Patterns Baladi A fill variation on Masmoudi Saghir. D is for Dum – T is for Tek – k is for ka D D kk T D kk T (kk) 1-2- 3- 4-5- 6 -7- 8 D is for Dominant hand – …
Swords and Finger Cymbals – buying advice
Swords and Finger Cymbals – you need them, where do you find them? What do you look for? Finger Cymbals Also known as zills in Turkey and sagat in Egypt. They are a beautiful and traditional part of a belly dancer’s show. The most important thing when you are buying finger cymbals is to make …
2011 Belly Dance Essentials Homework 2
The second piece of music we are using in Essentials is: Longa Farahfaza – Riyad Al-Sunbati Composer: Riyad Al-Sunbati Musical Form: Longa Maqam: Farahfaza Learn About the Composer Riyad Al-Sunbati A very famous and popular Egyptian composer. Riyad Al-Sunbati wrote music for radio and movies and pieces for the most famous singers of his time …
2011 Belly Dance Essentials Homework
The first piece of music we are using in Essentials is: Alf Leila we Leila (1000 Nights & a Night) Composer: Baligh Hamdi Lyrics by: Morsi Gamil Aziz Dialect: Egyptian Colloquial The entire piece in a live performance: Here are links to the Lyrics in Arabic and an English Translation & Transliteration. We are using …
Watch This
Watch this clip of the famous Egyptian Belly Dancer Naima Akef in the movie Tamra Henna. She was famous for her skill with finger cymbals. You can buy the movie Tamra Henna quite cheaply from Rashid’s, with English subtitles. The music from this movie includes very famous belly dance tunes that are still very popular …
Finger Cymbals homework
Practice your finger cymbals with movement. Practice your 3 tones: ring, clap and click. Here is notation for practicing the maqsum and malfuf rhythms at home on your finger cymbals, use clap for dums and rings for everything else, then try the opposite: I pulled this notation right off of Jas’s Middle Eastern Rhythms website: …
Steps & Combos We worked on in Class
Saidi proud posture salute heel drops basic sweep step trampoline walk heel drops with chest drop & undulation bouncing figure 8s side to side undulations cane swing forward 23 smack& return finger twirl switch grip figure 8 swing over the shoulder grip switch head balance roll the body up horsey feet head to arms cane …
Steps & Combos We worked on in Class
Saidi proud posture salute heel drops basic sweep step trampoline walk heel drops with chest drop & undulation bouncing figure 8s side to side undulations cane swing forward 23 smack& return finger twirl switch grip figure 8 swing over the shoulder grip switch head balance roll the body up horsey feet head to arms cane …
Tribe
