Thread: My Turkish Romani choreo -- so proud!

IT IS AWSOME! Your students are great! I love your costume choice! you did an awsome job!

Fantastic, entertaining piece, Lauren. Brava to you and your students!

Re: the skirt washing move, Artemis teaches it as well, and she mentioned in the workshop where I learned it from her that it's one of the few skirt movements that Turkish Roman dancers actually use.

Originally Posted by Lauren_

Thank you, that's EXACTLY what I'm thinking I need more of to capture the style..footwork, bigger pelvic moves... I also feel like I haven't quite captured that way of interacting with the rhythm that Ahmet does so well, dragging through the first 5 beats and then SNAP SNAP on the 78. I'd like to learn more footwork before I do another piece.

The skirt washing came from Tayyar Adkeniz, although he choreographs it to slower music and I like it better his way!

I can't get audio to play on youtube videos on my machine for some reason, but even without the music, I love it! (I have that song and was playing it in my head.)

If you're looking for footwork (and don't mind pausing and rewinding a million times), I got some good ideas from this video of Reyhan Tuzsuz:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqiOxO53o7c]YouTube - Reyhan ve Husnu Promo[/ame]

That said, Tayyar covered the same patterns in the workshop I took with him (which also used the skirt-washing), so you might have already seen them. (When, oh when, is he coming back to Boston?!?!?!?)

These Liz Strong videos have a lot of good footwork too:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZyjIoXyJXQ]YouTube - Tribal Fest 7 Performance - Elizabeth Strong & Turkish Style[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAkLe1OQY0]YouTube - Tribal Fest 7 Performance - Elizabeth Strong 2[/ame]


As for teaching the rhythm, I gave a "how to deal when the band plays a 9/8 and you know nothing about karsilama" workshop this time last year, and used a few different ways to count the rhythm. Most of the students seemed to learn best when we counted it as "apple, apple, apple, pineapple".

Awesome, Lauren! Both you and the girls did a great job on this. You should all be proud - for sure!

that was really cute. It makes me want to do more Turkish Roman!

Very nice, Lauren! You should be proud of your girls. And they obviously have a great teacher/choreographer.

they do use tambourine but not in real gypsy authentic show. I like tambourine and would use it as a fusion piece and not to call it Roman. I have one in youtube, I should change the name of it perhaps ;-(