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.. or may be he is catering to his Westerner audience.
So what if he was?
Moving on, stage lighting, wonderful. Backdrop, I'm envious. Costume, didnt do it for me, but if he likes it...Veilwork. Not so much.
.. or may be he is catering to his Westerner audience.
what I noticed is this image Tito has these days... it reminds me of some footage I have seen of JIm Boz, what is the chance Tito is copying him?
I have not seen anyone walking the streets of Cairo dressed like this.
Yes, you get tight back T-shirts and 80's throwback washed denim, but nothing like this!
If they did a duet they would lool like the WWF.
Well, the heck with complicated costumes from here on out. I'll just go to class straight from riding my horse and convince everyone that cowboy boots and Wranglers are the newest thing in belly dance wear.
People always think veil work is going to be oh so simple and that any idiot with a few feet of chiffon can look cool. It takes a newbie about five minutes in a good veil class to discover that there is an art to using a veil well and that pumping chiffon can wear you out about as fast as pumping iron.
Tito is one of my favorite performers, but I am disappointed in his performance. It almost makes me angry to see someone of his caliber perform with a veil before he has any genuine understanding of what he is trying to do. Unless, of course, he did want to invoke the ambiance of a biker hanging out his sheets.
So what if he was?
It means he is compromising the true art of the dance for people he thinks do not know any different.
And nobody should have to adapt their art to cater for anyones tatses.
If they dont like what you do then tough.
I think the clip is ok but because the way they are dressed,...just looks like they are giving some kind of demonstration.
I do not like this overt Western image for Egyptian dancing.
Now Tito looks like a member of the Village people.
basically, he lost the earthly feeling to his dance which was special about him!!
i was looking for his emailadres honestly but did not find it.to ask him please why did you do that? i can not understand that he did ,because a good dancer like that would not go out and look like that he must know that it looks clumsy? so i realy dont understand...he is to good to just go up there and make a mess and dont realize.....veilwork is ver beautiful but not easy do make it look good...even from the way he is holding it and cary his body when he works the veil ,i geuss he just looked at someone doing it and try,d to copy ...nobody was realy telling him how and what to do and what not to do...it puzzles me ...what a pitty it is realy not doing him any good ,i hope he stops doing it
It means he is compromising the true art of the dance for people he thinks do not know any different.
Mahmoud,
Please have a word with him. ray:
Guess maybe he'd better adjust his ideas about western audiences then because a whole bunch of us do know the difference.
Do you have any statistics!! you and couple of your friends are not the Western audiences.
Mahmoud, what on earth do you get out of being so adversarial? Consider all the people from the west who dance and dance well, take into account the westerners who sincerely study the middle eastern roots of belly dance, look at all the people on this forum alone who do care and who do have a clue. These folks count as an educated audience, and are the very ones most likely to be interested in and present at belly dance performance.
Or maybe he is just dressing that way because he likes the look. It's far more conservative than stretchy pants, which male dancers sometimes wear in the US! I really think men have a hard time with costuming, especially if they want to stay on the more "masculine" side of the spectrum. They don't have as many choices as we do.
Mahmoud, what on earth do you get out of being so adversarial? Consider all the people from the west who dance and dance well, take into account the westerners who sincerely study the middle eastern roots of belly dance, look at all the people on this forum alone who do care and who do have a clue. These folks count as an educated audience, and are the very ones most likely to be interested in and present at belly dance performance.