Maria_Aya
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Hi all
Just read the very interesting interview Salome took from Dr. Mo.
What hit me was this:
I'd like to relate the following story in order to make readers aware of the facts, truth and ethics of dance. At a dance event I attended, in the capacity of a principal teacher, participants told me that another dance teacher taught them the Milaya as women dance it in the streets of Alexandria. I was shocked to hear this and tried not to loose my temper in order to avoid offending a colleague. I told the participants that they probably misunderstood the teacher because there is no 'Milaya dance', which women do in the streets. Milaya is the national dress of lower middle class Egyptian women in big cities like Cairo and Alexandria. A Milaya dance is a choreographic interpretation of the movement behavior of women wearing the milaya. A good choreographer will reflect this movement behavior and character of women wearing the milaya to look real.
And I'm furrious !!!
Recent I had discovered that many of the things I've learned from Egyptian teachers, and have notes from them, are not accurate and I'm sad...
Or in other way, there is so much difference in the same subject from arab teachers that what can we do us, as westerns to do the right thing?
Anyway this is just a rant... maybe I need cofee lol
Kisses
Maria Aya
p.s. Salome, thanks for all the good work and the interviews you are providing to us
Just read the very interesting interview Salome took from Dr. Mo.
What hit me was this:
I'd like to relate the following story in order to make readers aware of the facts, truth and ethics of dance. At a dance event I attended, in the capacity of a principal teacher, participants told me that another dance teacher taught them the Milaya as women dance it in the streets of Alexandria. I was shocked to hear this and tried not to loose my temper in order to avoid offending a colleague. I told the participants that they probably misunderstood the teacher because there is no 'Milaya dance', which women do in the streets. Milaya is the national dress of lower middle class Egyptian women in big cities like Cairo and Alexandria. A Milaya dance is a choreographic interpretation of the movement behavior of women wearing the milaya. A good choreographer will reflect this movement behavior and character of women wearing the milaya to look real.
And I'm furrious !!!
Recent I had discovered that many of the things I've learned from Egyptian teachers, and have notes from them, are not accurate and I'm sad...
Or in other way, there is so much difference in the same subject from arab teachers that what can we do us, as westerns to do the right thing?
Anyway this is just a rant... maybe I need cofee lol
Kisses
Maria Aya
p.s. Salome, thanks for all the good work and the interviews you are providing to us