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Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group

Title
Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group [videorecording]
Publication
1980.

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Additional Authors
  • Farrah, Ibrahim
  • Bahijah
  • Camille, Velerie
  • Hussien, Ahmed
  • Jajouka
  • Keyse, Connie
  • Khyam, Halima
  • Nejat
  • Saretta, Phyllis
  • Obadia, Hakki
  • Smith, Donna Lea
  • Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group
  • Riverside Dance Festival
Description
1 videocassette (111 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Phyllis Sareta.
Series Statement
Ibrahim Farrah Collection.
Subject
  • Dance > Middle East
  • Belly dance
  • Tahteeb (Dance)
  • Zār > Egypt
  • Guedra (Dance)
  • Hagallah (Dance)
  • Dance > Egypt
  • Ouled Naïl dances
  • Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Egypt
  • Stick dances > Egypt
  • Dervish dances
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Location and date from original container ; additional data from house program.
Credits (note)
  • Choreography, Ibrahim Farrah (except where otherwise noted) ; costume designs supervised by Ibrahim Farrah ; lighting, Donna Lea Smith.
Performer (note)
  • Narrator: Lee Corbett.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at the Theater of the Riverside Church, New York, N.Y., as part of the Riverside Dance Festival, in May 1980.
Contents
  • Egyptian suite (excerpt from Le ballet egyptienne, a work-in-progress): Le mystique et spirituelle (ca. 5 min.) / danced by the Company. Includes the zeffet, a processional march ; a circle dance ; and a dance based on the zikr, a spiritual ecstatic dance.
  • In search of Osiris (ca. 8 min.) / music, Rami Nasser ; cast (in order of appearance): Phaedra (Isis), Velerie Camille (Nute), Halima Khyam (Hathor), Mish Mish B'int Amira (Nephthys), Nejat (Bastet), Ahmed Hussien (Osiris).
  • Dance for Nute (ca. 5 min.) / choreography and performance, Velerie Camille ; music, Hakki Obadia.
  • Raks-Al-Assaya-Et-Tahtib (ca. 9 min.) / danced by Ibrahim Farrah, Ahmed Hussien, Bahijah, Jajouka, Mish Mish B'int Amira.
  • Bait-El-Zar (House of Zar) (ca. 14 min.) / music, Rami Nasser ; danced by Halima Khyam (high priestess), Velerie Camille (the possessed), and ensemble (friends of the possessed).
  • North African & Egyptian ritual and folk traditions: Mambootieh (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Ahmed Hussien ; danced by Ibrahim Farrah, Ahmed Hussien, Halima Khyam, Nejat, Mish Mish B'int Amira.
  • The guedra (ca. 4 min.) / danced by Jajouka.
  • Raks Al-Sudani (ca. 7 min.) / danced by Connie Keyse.
  • Danse des Oulid Nail (ca. 5 min.) / danced by Halima Khyam.
  • Hagallah (ca. 7 min.) / danced by Ibrahim Farrah, Phaedra, Ahmed Hussien.
  • Fantasy suite: Harem fantasy [and] Danse orientale solos (ca. 20 min.) / danced by Jajouka, Halima Khyam, Mish Mish B'int Amira, Nejat ; solos by Bahijah and Phaedra.
  • Dance of the whirling dervish (ca. 4 min.) / danced by Ibrahim Farrah, Halima Khyam.
  • Finale: Saidi et Nawaria (ca. 18 min.) / danced by the Company, with solos by Velerie Camille, Jajouka, Mish Mish B'int Amira, Ibrahim Farrah.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4883
OCLC
NYPY01-F188
Title
Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group [videorecording]
Imprint
1980.
Series
Ibrahim Farrah Collection.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Theater of the Riverside Church, New York, N.Y., as part of the Riverside Dance Festival, in May 1980.
Credits
Choreography, Ibrahim Farrah (except where otherwise noted) ; costume designs supervised by Ibrahim Farrah ; lighting, Donna Lea Smith.
Performer
Danced by the Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group: Ibrahim Farrah, Bahijah, Jajouka, Connie Keyse, Halima Khyam, Mish Mish B'int Amira, Nejat, Phaedra [Phyllis Saretta].
Special guests: Velerie Camille, Ahmed Hussien.
Music performed by the Orchestra Arabesque: Samy Ansary (organ), Khalil Hallal (oud), Antoin Hajjar (nai [flute]), Hanna Mirhige (conductor/drums), Amin Morgraby (percussion), Rami Nasser (violin), Galeb Tawil (percussion).
Narrator: Lee Corbett.
Local Subject
Ouled Naïl dances.
Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Egypt.
Stick dances -- Egypt.
Dervish dances.
Added Author
Farrah, Ibrahim, choreographer, dancer.
Bahijah, dancer.
Camille, Velerie, dancer, choreographer.
Hussien, Ahmed, dancer, choreographer.
Jajouka, dancer.
Keyse, Connie, dancer.
Khyam, Halima, dancer.
Nejat, dancer.
Saretta, Phyllis, dancer.
Obadia, Hakki. Composer
Smith, Donna Lea.
Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group.
Riverside Dance Festival.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4883
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