Dear Tamer Aziz ✨ first I would like to thank you for your videos and for being always generous with your knowledge and the way you share such valuable information for all the dance community. I really enjoy to listen often to the diferent content that you teach and explain so paisoned about. I also have a question about melaya dance the helicopter step above the head is correct? And if it's so... what style do that movement belong? Thanks again 🫶🏻
Dear Nur Yamin, Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you liked the videos. Regarding to your question: This step belongs to Cairo Baladi dance. Sometimes popular women in real life used to do this performance while fighting in the street. This means that she will pounce on her opponent immediately.😂
Good video. There's a lot you left out but that is fine. It is a huge expansive topic. I will write some additional info. First off, most styles done are really two we have Reda and Eskandari versions. The third version of Reda's incarnation of the Melaya was Eskandari which can be very sensuous. The cover was to conceal women so their dresses would not show and a yashmak was worn mostly by Muslim women. The first one was done with Ali Ismail's band back in the early 60's. I have the footage. Europeans who adopted the dance portrayed them as street walkers which most likely can from seeing the play Raya and Sakina which most of those girls were supposed to be prostitutes. Rules: You never twirl or chew gum. Farida and Reda both found it similar to spitting. Also paillettes should not bed added except most of them have paillettes sadly. All in all it is a fun dance and should be respected.
Dear Dallas Martin, Thank you so much for your kind words and your wonderful information. I was one of the dancers in the play " Raya and Sakina" . I still remember how Mahmoud chose us from the dance group and how he trained us to perform these dances. By the way, there were no girls since the beginning of the training, and it was almost the first time a play without a female component in dance. We were afraid if the dances didn't work out, but this was the great Mahmoud Reda.
tHANK YOU hABBI...AND ALSO GRETTINGS TO hODA IBHAHIM...
Thank you so much, dear Warda Maravilha❤️️ I'm very happy that you like the video. Many greetings from Hoda to you.😍
Dear Tamer Aziz ✨ first I would like to thank you for your videos and for being always generous with your knowledge and the way you share such valuable information for all the dance community. I really enjoy to listen often to the diferent content that you teach and explain so paisoned about. I also have a question about melaya dance the helicopter step above the head is correct? And if it's so... what style do that movement belong? Thanks again 🫶🏻
Dear Nur Yamin, Thank you so much. I'm so glad that you liked the videos.
Regarding to your question: This step belongs to Cairo Baladi dance. Sometimes popular women in real life used to do this performance while fighting in the street. This means that she will pounce on her opponent immediately.😂
I imagine that, as I read your words jajaja thank you for answering 🙌🏻
Good video. There's a lot you left out but that is fine. It is a huge expansive topic. I will write some additional info.
First off, most styles done are really two we have Reda and Eskandari versions. The third version of Reda's incarnation of the Melaya was Eskandari which can be very sensuous. The cover was to conceal women so their dresses would not show and a yashmak was worn mostly by Muslim women. The first one was done with Ali Ismail's band back in the early 60's. I have the footage.
Europeans who adopted the dance portrayed them as street walkers which most likely can from seeing the play Raya and Sakina which most of those girls were supposed to be prostitutes.
Rules: You never twirl or chew gum. Farida and Reda both found it similar to spitting. Also paillettes should not bed added except most of them have paillettes sadly.
All in all it is a fun dance and should be respected.
Dear Dallas Martin, Thank you so much for your kind words and your wonderful information. I was one of the dancers in the play " Raya and Sakina" . I still remember how Mahmoud chose us from the dance group and how he trained us to perform these dances. By the way, there were no girls since the beginning of the training, and it was almost the first time a play without a female component in dance. We were afraid if the dances didn't work out, but this was the great Mahmoud Reda.