Fayzah Claudia has had a life long love affair with dance. Her dance background includes training & performance in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Indian (Bharatnatyam), African, Capoeira, Argentine Tango, Fusion Dance, Fire Performance, and traditional Middle Eastern Dances (Bellydance). She has lived in Europe, California, the Caribbean, and Arizona.
She fell in love with music from Egypt, North Africa, and surrounding countries, and studied many classical and folkloric styles, with many distinguished teachers. Her travels throughout Egypt, gave her an added perspective, and cultural understanding. Many years of studying both Argentine Tango and various styles of Bellydance, led to the discovery of similarities between the two dance forms, and the process of combining their movements together. After being introduced to tango in 1997, she has had the pleasure of studying with various renouned teachers from the US, Argentina, and Europe. She credits Homer Ladas as a main inspiration throughout the years.
I thought, the next video, the little Indian boy and the cow is so cute.
It's interesting how the man is carrying around his instrument and the cow just randomly. This is South Indian Music.
This is a trailer of a music comparison of Appalachian music and the Himalayan music. The music playing in the background is Himalayan music from city of Nepal.
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I enjoyed your third video, especially being able to see the Himalayan instruments. I was surprised at how similar they were to our fiddle and mandolin, except that they play their fiddle like a cello. The songs were so similar, too. I wonder if it has to do with living in the mountains.
ReplyDeleteI really like the belly dancing video Joyce. There is a show called "Shimmy" on fit t.v. It is like a belly dancing workout. Erica and Celly and I did it over the weekend, and I can definitely feel it. I love the costumes, but also how the body mirrors the music.
ReplyDeleteI watched your 2nd video. The little boy is really cute! Is that some sort of oboe instrument that he is playing? I also like that he has to pause from playing to make sure that the cow is not going to go anywhere. Haha. You can also hear the traffic in the background and the adorable laugh of the little boy which adds to the soundscape.
ReplyDeleteI posted belly dancing too, I find it fascinating, if I had the body , I would do it LOL but Fayzah is awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteThe belly dancing was really neat. I knew it existed, but I didn't know people still performed/practiced it.
ReplyDeleteThe little boy is cute. The cow is random. The video is just funny. :)
It's really interesting to see how they compared Himalayan music to Appalachian music. I loved seeing all of the people and landscapes, as well.