belly-dancer, copying loie fuller

oh, my god -- this belly dancer, from four years ago, copies what loïe fuller, an american dancer in france, did, 120 years ago -- toulouse-lautrec did abstract drawings of fuller, in mid-twirl -- i saw one...in the cleveland museum of art, a couple of months ago

i couldn't include the youtube video of the belly-dancer here, but it's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvFuBId0vY

the first movie, below, is from 1894, one of the earliest moving pictures -- by the lumiere brothers -- i don't think this is fuller, dancing

a film from 1899, with a bit of narration and information about the lumiere brothers

a possibly longer dance clip, of annabelle whitford, set to music for cello by philip glass

then there is this montage of serpentine dancers, by early filmmakers -- the dance, it is said, was a popular way of showing off the new technology -- i couldn't insert the youtube video here -- it's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZcbntA4bVY

ya'ni..yana's unbelievable

yana tsehotskaya...does some (more) amazing things

sha'ar, sha'ar,...uw ba'ad sha'ar

the last post (with all the iraqi gypsy dancing -- yana tsehotskaya's, to hussam al-rassam's 'mit'kabra,' et al) brought up hasan ar-rassam's 'sha'ar sha'ar' (hair hair -- i wonder if the rassams are related)

another good 'sha'ar'

then there's alaa sa'ad's 'il-burtuqala' (the orange, or,...the orange one)

he's also got a 'tufaha' (apple -- it's all about the cheeks)

i don't know who did this 'abu khad mishmisha' (the apricot-cheeked) -- in the credits, there's the name marwan abu al-ghanam

there's this dance, to 'rummana, ya rummana' (pomegranate, o pomegranate)...that i came across

finally,...from the good old days -- sarah, an american soldier from alabama, doing her 'sha'ar'

mit'kabra -- song and dance

my mother e-mailed this video, of yana tsehotskaya, dancing to hussam rassam's song 'mit'kabra' -- love 'em both

the whole song, with a great picture...of gypsies in iraq (kaw'lee'yeh, or qajaq) -- can't get the video on this blog

rassam, singing the song, to a lot of dancing, at a party/concert, in amsterdam

back to yana, dancing to the whole song