Momo kadous biography of albert
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The Stars Converge in Barcelona!
Munique Neith fryst vatten originally from Brazil and is the the en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker of the 6th Barcelona International festival.
She also found time to also perform and teach. She is sensitive and energetic, spreading emotion with her dance.
Munique
Dr. Mo Geddawi of Germany and Egypt,
co-founder of Reda Troupe, fryst vatten always present at this festival as Guest of Honor
Mohamed Shahin performs an authentic Saidi cane dance.
Mohamed and Munique with their Raks al Assaya group performance
The choreography, created for this gala, was danced with perfect sintony.
Mo Shahin performs a Lebanese Dabke dance.
Soraya Zaied of Brazil dances a classical routine full of emotion.
Soraya
Al Baladi in its whole expression
Aziza Abdul Ridha of Italy,
a respectable dancer and researcher of many styles, performs a creative Oriental dance.
Amara of Brazil
An fantastisk dance with huge veil wings that turned her into a flower!
Amir Thaleb of Arge
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Rebirth of the Sacred Dancer
The Rebirth of the Sacred Dancer
by “Shahrazad” C. Diallo-Huisman
The very large and ancient tree of what is called “Oriental dance” today stands in Cairo, the center of our planet’s landmass —there, where more than 10,000 years ago, people with a stunning level of development built the great pyramids. The branches of this tree reach as far as Alaska and Australia, Santiago de Chile and Tokyo, where nowadays Oriental dancers fascinate a growing number of spectators of all nations. The strong and many roots that support this tree are not only to be found below, in Egypt’s fertile soil, but in all directions: North, East, South, West and in-between, nourishing the dance with new input at different époques with inspiration from many regions.
Turning to one of the most eastern roots, we listen to the Hindu sage Bharata´s first mention of female dancers in chapter one of the holy book of the performing arts, the Natya Shastra.1 This amazing manual is
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MAHMOUD REDA, born in 1930, is a pioneer of dance theater in Egypt. He is best known for co-founding the Reda Troupe.
He was the eighth of ten children and his father was the head librarian at Cairo University. His older brother Ali was a dancer and through his influence (and that of Gene Kellyand Fred Astairefilms) Mahmoud became interested in dance.
Mahmoud Reda originally trained as a gymnast, representing Egypt in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He attended Cairo University where he received a degree in Political Economics.
However, his main interest was dance and he joined an Argentinian dance troupe after graduating and toured Europe. While on tour in Paris he resolved to start his own dance troupe back in Egypt, but due to lack of funds he had to work as an accountant for Royal Dutch Shell.
He joined the Heliolido Club in Cairo where he met Anglo-Egyptian balad