April 2008 Archives
Yes, this is much like shooting fish in a barrel. For those unaware,
Dina, the raqs sharqi artist from Egypt, is possibly the most famous
dancer there performing today. She's also a regular walking fashion
victim of the worst order.
Usually, her sins are of a sexual nature -- Dina's costumes tend to show off enough skin to make the Sahar Okasha stuff look downright prudish (ironic, given the origins of that line...). But here I am, watching a Dina video, and, well, she pulls off both "sexy", "coqettish", "fairy", and "painful", all in the same look.
And you can look, if you DARE:
And
I confess, what really shook me up was the back. As painful as the
front was, I could take it...goodness knows, she's done worse...but
this:
takes "WTF, Dina?" to new levels, in my opinion.
No, your eyes have not failed you. Those are, indeed, Gold Lamé Fairy Wings, Ladies and Gentlemen.
The horror...the horror...
Usually, her sins are of a sexual nature -- Dina's costumes tend to show off enough skin to make the Sahar Okasha stuff look downright prudish (ironic, given the origins of that line...). But here I am, watching a Dina video, and, well, she pulls off both "sexy", "coqettish", "fairy", and "painful", all in the same look.
And you can look, if you DARE:
And
I confess, what really shook me up was the back. As painful as the
front was, I could take it...goodness knows, she's done worse...but
this:
takes "WTF, Dina?" to new levels, in my opinion.No, your eyes have not failed you. Those are, indeed, Gold Lamé Fairy Wings, Ladies and Gentlemen.
The horror...the horror...
A friend of mine asked a question, elsewhere, about the Term "Cabaret Fusion". and in the process of answering, something occurred to me about the potential future of what we so inadequately label as "bellydance".
I don't know if this is the future. I don't even know if the two friends I mention are, or ever will be, interested in making the future I mention happen. Yet I do think there is a way to make ATS, and all it's offshoots, more than just the "other side" of Raqs Shaqri, and that both are enriched when that occurs.
Anyway, what I wrote:
I don't know if this is the future. I don't even know if the two friends I mention are, or ever will be, interested in making the future I mention happen. Yet I do think there is a way to make ATS, and all it's offshoots, more than just the "other side" of Raqs Shaqri, and that both are enriched when that occurs.
Anyway, what I wrote:
Continue reading Raqs: One Possible Future..
Herewith some video of musicians and dancers at the last Society for Creative Anachronism event I attended, A Day in the Middle East in Maryland:
Yes, my focus was to video the musicians -- they rarely get anything specific to them, and it's grand to have all that music available to dance to! Also, I was quite tuckered out by that point, so not only did I not dance, but many others were tuckered out by that point as well. In fact, you can hear many of them in the background...sorry about that. :(
