Thread: post clips of yourself of others working with live music!

all improv tabla solo. I kept on thinking he was bringing it to and end...but then it would keep going and going. LOL. He's a blast to work with...he plays a lot of sets of three. lol.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_kNcVkBDj4]YouTube - Samira Shuruk and Mohsen Saqi - tabla solo[/ame]

Samira you are super cute! Love the costume and hair flower and sweet smile!

I just uploaded 2 clips from Tokyo to me dancing to "Amar Hayati" with Alladeen.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2N25z5BFg]YouTube - Eshe Raukya Part 1[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVcHLBazhN8]YouTube - Eshe Rakuya Part 2[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uB92BJswjk]YouTube - Tanya of New Jersey with Gamal Shafik and Ensemble[/ame]

Originally Posted by eshe

Samira you are super cute! Love the costume and hair flower and sweet smile!

I just uploaded 2 clips from Tokyo to me dancing to "Amar Hayati" with Alladeen.

Great dancing. That band is quite as well good. Do they have a website?

Originally Posted by HubicRuzz

Great dancing. That band is quite as well good. Do they have a website?

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Ken Matsuo, whose email address you get if you click on contact, reads, writes, and speaks English well and can answer inquiries.

Originally Posted by SamiraShuruk

all improv tabla solo. I kept on thinking he was bringing it to and end...but then it would keep going and going. LOL. He's a blast to work with...he plays a lot of sets of three. lol.

I normally hate yellow, but you can really pull it off. It looks great on you.
Great dancing, too. The drummer obviously really liked you and didn't want to let you leave!

Mariah improv with the live band. Does anybody know the name of this song and it's origin? So fun and playful to dance to.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJCClO1Y4e8]YouTube - Belly Dance Improv to Live Band[/ame]

Here is a clip of another dancer in the same show my last clips were from.
Beautiful Sherine dancing with Zikrayat :)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cafItKbF3OY]YouTube - Sherine Hatoun & Zikrayat[/ame]

Originally Posted by MariahOhio

Mariah improv with the live band. Does anybody know the name of this song and it's origin? So fun and playful to dance to.
YouTube - Belly Dance Improv to Live Band

Sounded similar to Tel3et Ya Mahla Nourha but not 100%. Would be a strange song to dance to if it was because the song is about waking up at sunrise to milk the cows.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKNxu_-6ds]YouTube - ‫صباØ* Ù�خري - طلعت يامØ*لا نورها‬‎[/ame]

Also with Alladeen, same night as Eshe's clips
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7LOikCKUKw]YouTube - Ozma at Rakuya with Alladeen[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeWbfJ_B7zs]YouTube - Ozma at Rakuya with Alladeen Part 2[/ame]

Originally Posted by ozma

Also with Alladeen, same night as Eshe's clips
YouTube - Ozma at Rakuya with Alladeen

YouTube - Ozma at Rakuya with Alladeen Part 2

I was wondering when you would post.

I quite like these clips dancing to Aziza

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5H9xalzitY]YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 1/2[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwkHsyDs6_E]YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 2/2[/ame]

Wow - this is an inspiring thread. Thank you all for sharing~ I hope you enjoy mine as much as I have enjoyed all of you!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIA-ZP3Tvbc]YouTube - Shaula performs double sword at Synaxis[/ame]

Originally Posted by MariahOhio

Mariah improv with the live band. Does anybody know the name of this song and it's origin? So fun and playful to dance to.
YouTube - Belly Dance Improv to Live Band

Sounds like some Ya Mustapha action to me. (Pulled up the George Abdo Raks Mustapha...yup.)

Originally Posted by SamiraShuruk

all improv tabla solo. I kept on thinking he was bringing it to and end...but then it would keep going and going. LOL. He's a blast to work with...he plays a lot of sets of three. lol.
YouTube - Samira Shuruk and Mohsen Saqi - tabla solo

You have such an easygoing "this is fun and I enjoy it" vibe!

Originally Posted by HubicRuzz

I was wondering when you would post.

I quite like these clips dancing to Aziza

YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 1/2

YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 2/2

Thanks.

There is a whole lot of awesome on this thread...makes posting kinda daunting thus the delay.

Originally Posted by ozma

Sounds like some Ya Mustapha action to me. (Pulled up the George Abdo Raks Mustapha...yup.)

Yup! I'm listening to Abdo Raks Mustapha in my iTunes library. I have the song! I knew when the band was playing the song I had heard it many times before. Thank you for helping! I love the Chifte Telli in the original sound track. Wish the band played that part for me. Still a joy to dance to.

posed 2x soory

Here is one of me a couple years ago at Taxim here in Los Angeles.



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Originally Posted by jody

Here is one of me a couple years ago at Taxim here in Los Angeles.



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Just post the link, Bhuz will do the rest. no need to use the embed code.

Originally Posted by ozma

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Ken Matsuo, whose email address you get if you click on contact, reads, writes, and speaks English well and can answer inquiries.

They were a sweet band! And lovely dancing Eshta!

Originally Posted by yameyameyame

I normally hate yellow, but you can really pull it off. It looks great on you.
Great dancing, too. The drummer obviously really liked you and didn't want to let you leave!

:D Thanks so much! I think yellow is such a GREAT performance color... and this one was just warm/orange enough for me to pull off. Not an easy feat for a pale redhead!

Originally Posted by ozma

You have such an easygoing "this is fun and I enjoy it" vibe!

lol.
Thank you SO much! That was an incredibly STRESSFUL day! Artemis Mourat held her So You Wanna Be a Star workshop show AND Student Recital at the monthly hafla that I host. The amount of organizing and coordinating was insane. It was jam packed (yay) and really hot (boo!). I am relieved that that all didn't show in my dancing... then again- he IS so much fun to work with.
Actually, he said it right one time when he didn't say "when will you dance with us again?" He asked me "when will you PLAY with us again?"... Whether I choose to take it as "dance is like playing an instrument" OR like children AT PLAY - they both make sense.

Originally Posted by HubicRuzz

I was wondering when you would post.

I quite like these clips dancing to Aziza

YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 1/2

YouTube - Ozma bellydancing to Alladeen's music 2/2

Ooooh, these are lovely! I love your smooth style!

Lovely clips posted ladies and gents!

Originally Posted by SamiraShuruk

We get what we get, to a certain degree. Within reason. Professional musicians know it is in all of our best interest to play "as a team." When we work together we ALL look our best.

Originally Posted by SamiraShuruk

all improv tabla solo. I kept on thinking he was bringing it to and end...but then it would keep going and going. LOL. He's a blast to work with...

I don't mean to be rude, but in the drum solo clip it sure does look like Mr Saqi is having a party on it's own ,r:; You did a good job trying to keep up though!

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Originally Posted by rakkasah_barbara

I don't mean to be rude, but in the drum solo clip it sure does look like Mr Saqi is having a party on it's own ,r:; You did a good job trying to keep up though!
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LOL. Mohsein does not spoon feed the dancers and he also knows who has fun with improvising and will welcome a challenge. There were a couple places where he could have been paying more attention, I agree with you. I prefer a little bit of surprise in there though. To me it's part of the energy of playing with a band. If it's all like clockwork and predictable we may as well be dancing with CD. This sort of situation (to me) is not meant to look "perfected and practiced ad nauseum."
He plays a lot of "threes," not "fours." this is popular in Cairo now though. They don't really play fours much over there anymore.
I've worked with major "run away drummers" who really play for their own ego. While to some he may seem a little wild or unpredictable, he is FAR from a run away drummer. :)

my experience with live music is limited, so this was scary BEFOREHAND. but i loved it. I loved it! i think live music agrees with me, lol.

sadly i only have footage of the first song, not of alf leyla wa leyla and the violin taksim, and hebbina... so you'll just have to believe me when i tell you how much fun i had ;-)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctx7a5wLtVM]YouTube - Artemisia with House of Tarab[/ame]

Lovely and graceful Artemisia! I love your long lines- and you can really see your joy. :)

Artemisia so understated and elegant. Loved it! Seemed so effortless!

Originally Posted by ozma

Sounds like some Ya Mustapha action to me. (Pulled up the George Abdo Raks Mustapha...yup.)

Yep, that's Raks Mustapha. I danced my first solo to that routine.

Originally Posted by SamiraShuruk

all improv tabla solo. I kept on thinking he was bringing it to and end...but then it would keep going and going. LOL. He's a blast to work with...he plays a lot of sets of three. lol.
YouTube - Samira Shuruk and Mohsen Saqi - tabla solo

I love long drum solos!

I've been enjoying these all so much!

I'm pretty new at dancing to live music and have very limited experience with it. But I figured that throwing myself into a competition would be a fun experience and I'd get some input about ways I'm interpreting the music that I don't necessarily get at a hafla or festival.

I didn't place in this category, but I felt pretty good considering it was all improv. It's hard to think, listen and dance all at the same time. lol

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXoYiRrIkEg]YouTube - Jewel Of The Sierra 2010 Live Music[/ame]

Video from Rakkasah yesterday.
Scott Wilson's band is so good and so much fun to dance with!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVOcDDHPto]YouTube - Yame & Scott Wilson's Band @ Rakkasah East 2010[/ame]