On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May is celebrated the Festival of Oriental Dance and Urban in Burgos, under the name of CRUCIBLE. The Festival offered a show on Saturday and Master Classes and Oriental Bazaar on Saturday and Sunday.
Crucible met on stage (Cajacírculo Hall) to the Arab Dance Company Hanin (Nephthys Paloma, Leena Qadi, Cristina Gadea, Sonia Alejandre and Erika La Turka) with guest artists from New styles like Karetti Ahmed (France), Sandro Bernal (Mexico), Pablo Santamaria (Santander) and Elena de Miguel (Pamplona).
Work developed from research on new forms in the Dance East, without losing the essence and respect for the classic. Looking for new ways both movements and sounds, merging with other dances such as Hip Hop, Funky and Commercial Dance, obtained from the personal backgrounds of each dancer.
"Crucible: fusion of ideas, emotions.The strength, silence, intimacy, distance.Nine different forms of live dance, recovering the classical, fusing with current and imagining what is yet to come. "
The Master Classes lasted an hour and a half each, and Baladi oriental dances, Sable, Saidi with a cane and Wings of Isis, mergers, and ZíngarOriental Tribal and urban dances such as Hip Hop, Funky and Commercial Dance.
Paloma Nephthys Organization with the I Festival de Danza Oriental and Urban is in Burgos. The Festival will frame a performance and workshops with different teachers. The next 8 and 9 May. Coming soon. If you want to be the first to receive information, write to info@festivaldanzaburgos.com
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Rarely the title of an album becomes a reflection so faithful to its content, as it is in this new recording of Valderrama: "Modern Tradition."
Interpreting contemporary flamenco artist, becomes involved in a lively debate between various cultures and different times causing new sounds.
The tour begins in Marrakesh and run by several countries and several provinces of Spain.Furthermore, this tour will accompany three musicians Valderrama orient yourself.
In these times when the musical productions of most of the artists, both national and international programming comes from machine-made, through which and by means of the latest software market, we can get any sound. But, Valderrama has been locked in each country where there were different songs that make this album truly special with musicians of the instruments have been used, getting together the expertise, sensitivity and emotion that produces the mixing of cultures and the vortex feelings, as they have involved more than fifty musicians from four different countries (Spain, Argentina, Egypt and Turkey) achieving a sound so far unknown to the Spanish public and yet triumphs all over Europe and especially in the Middle East which is becoming more Western.
Fusion of flamenco guitars with traditional Eastern percussion instruments and strings, which were the origin of all music dating back to 2800 BC in faraway Egypt, and new technologies applied to current music gets a fresh sound in which But the taste lingers well done, traditional and authentic.
Also the CD has four producers, who know the most important musicians in every style and giving each song its native style and personal.
In Egypt, Adel Hakki, composer and performer of songs for grades Disney and Bollywood productions. Adel moves like a fish in water conducting large orchestrations. Producer of the leading artists of the Middle East as Amr Diab and Tamer Hosni, millionaires in record sales, something unthinkable and impossible on this side of the planet. Some of his compositions are part of catalogs of disks as exclusive as the Buddha Bar which publishes the famous Parisian restaurant, home and distributed worldwide.
In Turkey, Oguz Kaplangi, founder of electronic music "Zipunt" and perhaps the best tradition has managed to merge with electronic media, bringing modernity to songs some of which are centuries-old flamenco compositions. This producer has chosen great musicians from the Turkish Roma, located in a crowded district of Istanbul, to shape the four songs he has produced.
The collaboration of group of drummers "Harem", found in Europe, has been fundamental, and ancient sounds that bring through darbuka, djembe and bendirs, played ancient instruments of the most modern way imaginable. Another formation, this time with strings, "Senyaylar Strings Ensemble" consists of a family of musicians makes arrangements designed Oguz with tremendous skill, are both exciting and wild, in that there are mixed harmonics impossible to describe pictures without being heard.
In Spain, in Seville, a teacher, Jesus Carmona "El Bola". No doubt it takes over the Flemish part and moving the disk, but also the most difficult to understand. In his repertoire highlight two pearls. The first and thanks to technology, a duet between father and son "Romance of the Roma", an unreleased track that the great Juanito Valderrama was in the studio recording of "El Bola" when death snatched a blow wisdom and his art, his voice fading forever.
The second, "Man I'm wearing," an intimate and disturbing piece in which the personal voice of Valderrama, only accompanying sound of an organ of XVI century church, located at the Cathedral of Jaén, a of the few bodies that are active in Spain. Thanks to the Chapter of the Cathedral of Jaén and on behalf of the diocesan archivist Canon D. Juan Francisco Martínez Rojas, could make this point: it is the first time that the church can record in any of its precincts and any of its organs whatever music is not sacred.
Finally, a tango. His producer of course Argentine Horacio Icasto and its composer Edgardo Moragas, and all the musicians who participated in this topic. This tango is a small license that allows VALDERRAMA to fulfill the word he gave in his day the author of "A Tango in Madrid."
With these ingredients is easy to imagine the result. A production full of nuances and new sounds in the Spanish music scene, joined by the thread of voice and unmistakable personality Valderrama.
On 21 and 22 March, Simona Jovic was in Madrid offering workshops in the world gypsy dances and a show at the Sala Galileo. The organization by the Guide you / AprendeDanzaOriental and dancers Sonia Alejandre and Leena Qadi, offered viewers a historical cultural or rrom Roma and their migration by different countries.
Simona Jovic, Czech Serbian origin, grew up in the territory of the former Yugoslavia surrounded by Roma culture. It is one of the few dancers dedicated to research and dissemination of these dances. Da workshops, shows and conferences across Europe. Usually publishes articles in the journal Passion Orientale.
If you want contrartarla, please contact us at: gestioncultural@orientarte.net
Here you can see some photos of the show at the Sala Galileo Galilei.
- Launch of CD "Darbuka II.Learn the Arab Rhythms ", an album of Records Guide you with the artists and Ashraf El Sayed Mohamed El Mait. This record, then the first edition, brings us closer to learning new rhythms Arabs as Al-Masri Al-Nawajt, Dawer Hindi, Samai Darey, Aqsaq (Al-Efrany), Al Bambi, Samai Thaquil, Al-Azarafat, Al- Mudawar Al-Masr, Al-Muhagar, Al-Muhammad Al Masri and Al-Al-Hendi Nawajt. In addition, find three percussion solo artists.
All this accompanied by an informative booklet where you can read and follow the rhythm of the drummer's voice, or go directly to the track the beat. Ideal for both amateurs and professional dance and Arabic music who want to expand their knowledge of Arabic rhythms.
This is the third album by Mohamed El Sayed in the market and together with Records Guide you. Mohamed, world-renowned dancer and percussionist, he has taught dance and percussion workshops throughout the world, from Japan, Latin America, Europe, Morocco and Egypt.
Since the first edition of this CD, cleared many doubts about the basic rhythms of Egyptian percussion. On this occasion he has collaborated in producing this CD percussionist and musician Ashraf El Mait, born in Egypt, graduated from the "Higher Institute of Music Academy of Arts and has taught Arabic music and rhythms for 20 years. He has participated as a musician in Arabic orchestras and opera in countries like Germany, Finland, Italy, Egypt and India.
Again, AprendeDanzaOriental, website dedicated to the dissemination and teaching of dance, music and Arabic culture, organized a show in several cities in Spain. Guide you took care of production, communication and management of artists and the production of this DVD, already the third DVD in the market for Records Guide you.
Now, some months after its conclusion, it launches the DVD of the show "Your Eyes to Alexandria" in Madrid, Seville, Mairena de Alcor.
This list includes internationally known musicians, like the brothers Henkesh (Khamis, Red and Sayed), Mohamed El Sayed Taghi and singer Sabri, Egypt. Nordeen Asha (nay) and Abdessalam Naiti (kanun) of Morocco. And the musician Fernando Depiaggi, Argentina.
In addition, the dancers had Neith Munich (Brazil) and Amajan (Argentina), offering a spectacle of music and oriental dances of Alexandria and Upper Egypt.
This DVD contains the show held in Madrid on September 21, 2007, as well as some pictures and photographs of the shows held in Seville, Mairena.
A document showing different dances to which we are accustomed to seeing, typical music of Alexandria and Upper Egypt and the great hands of the great drummer and his Henkesh Khamis, not so well known, brother Reda. Which performs interpretations Africa while Khamis has the purest Egyptian.
The touch of freshness is provided Taghi Sabri, the singer, and Mohamed El Sayed, percussionist and dancer, who made audiences smile an affectionate way.
And the dancers Munich and Amajan, which give the show a clear beauty in the dances and the subtlety of the same, filling a very special color.
If you wish to purchase this DVD, you can do in theOriental Bazaar .
On November 22, 2008, was held the V Festival organized by AprendeDanzaOriental.com Session East and OrientArte.net. The night was slowly brightening, as attendees. Dady DJ Drum cock all evening modern Arab issues and current, while Judge Elena and Fernando Tenreiro offered arts videos projected. It also included the participation of Morgan and Company dancer Mists of Avalon (tribal fusion), the dancer Nomi and Dady Vigo played live percussion. Other participants were students at the Avalon school and the students of the dancer Leena Qadi.
On 31 October, Eastern held the Fourth Session Festival organized by AprendeDanzaOriental.com and OrientArte.net. Attended by many people really wanting to dance, with many "bold / ace started the night from birth. Melhaoui The orchestra was fantastic, like the dancers Sonia Alejandre and Alessandra Forte, who got the audience in his pocket from the start.
While, yes, we miss musicians take their instruments and sharing with us some of their art. Only the percussionist Dady, who came from Vigo, took the stage and shared some tunes with the band Melhaoui.
Here you can see a short video and if you want to see this gallery, you can do here .
