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    Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    Hello all,

    I was just at a workshop by the lovely Sahra Saeeda this past weekend. We were talking about Golden Age dancers, and she mentioned a video she had seen of a dancer standing on the top of a ladder doing a crazy deep backbend. She said she couldn't find the video anymore and really regretted that it had disappeared.

    I know I have seen this video, and I'm pretty sure it was posted by a bhuzzer. I dug up this thread : youtube clips with great backbends, but the video Shira posted has been removed. I am pretty sure this is the one.

    So, does anyone have a video clip of (probably) Naemet Mokhtar doing a backbend on a ladder? I would love to be able to forward it to Sahra, it would make her so happy.

    ETA: I searched Youtube under her name and found several videos, most of which contained a freaky backbend, but not the one on the ladder (which was truly insane).
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    Re: Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    It wasn't me for sure!


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    Re: Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    I can't point you to the link, but the dancer is Naima Akef. It's somewhere on YouTube for sure!


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    Re: Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    Quote Originally Posted by Suzana View Post
    I can't point you to the link, but the dancer is Naima Akef. It's somewhere on YouTube for sure!
    That would make sense, her parents were acrobats in a traveling Circus show (run by Naima’s grandfather).


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    Re: Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    Exactly. She's said to have been an acrobat and contortionist from a young age. That would certainly account for the backbends!

    Please post if you find the clip. I thought I had it saved but am coming up empty.


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    Re: Looking for video of Golden Age dancer doing crazy backbend on a ladder

    Naima Akef! Okay, Sahra did mention that the dancer in question been an acrobat before she was a dancer, so that would be the right one.

    Thanks, that helps!
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