Egyptian Live Music and Belly Dance Festival "Camp "Negum", October/November, 2013

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Egyptian Live Music and Belly Dance Festival "Camp "Negum", October/November, 2013

Camp Negum is a unique belly dance Festival in Egypt. Our event gives dancers direct contact with the music and cultural behind Raqs Sharki. Our festival is small and personal so dancers can get to know one another, the teachers and the musicians. Our teachers are some of the biggest stars to have performed or are currently performing in Egypt. Safaa Farid’s Orchesta Negum is the worlds most recognized and respected orchestra for dancers. The members of Orchestra Negum have collectively played for most of the famous dancers in Egypt over the last 25 years.
Camp Negum privides a one-of-a-kind dance experience in that many of the classes and all of the performances are to live music!
Camp Negum is a noncompetitive event and an all-inclusive price makes it affordable to dancers. As well as master instruction and performances, CampNegum offers the opportunity to experience the culture of Egypt with performances by authentic, local folk groups and excursions to cultural sites.
Camp Negum festival also gives dancers the chance to relax. Our Dahab Camp on theRed Seaoffers world-class diving and snorkeling, dessert excursions to Bedouin campsites and pristine beaches. Our Luxor/Aswan Cruise offers the most amazing ancient wonders of Pharonic Egypt while cruising down the Nile. There is something for the whole family.
Leila Farid (one of the most popular and respected performers in Egypt today) created Camp Negum to foster respect for the music, musicians and traditions of Egyptian dance while allowing performers to gain a deeper understanding of Raqs Sharki and in the process to find their own voiceand style.

Belly dance, perform, study, relax and site see, all with Live Egyptian Music and Master Egyptian Teachers….The Camp Negum experience.

Camp Negum

 

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http://www.facebook.com/groups/campnegum/

 

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TATIANA DOROSH (RUSSIA)

WS TOPIC: Mergence (History and Choreography), 2 hours

 

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Festival organizer and teacher

- Leila Farid -



now is one of the brightest stars of belly dance in Egypt. She performs in the best five-star floating restaurants and nightclubs of Cairo, is one of the most popular and sought-after dancers for highest level weddings and luxury parties. Leila Farid can often be seen on the Arab television, as she performes with the many singers, superstars of the Middle East in the music videos or in their live shows, she played as an actress in many television films and serials of famous directors with famous top stars of Egyptian cinema. She is the advertising face of many Egyptian brands. Therefore she is a recognizable personality in the all Arab world. A few times Leila was with WS and performances in the Ukraine, Russia and many countries of the world.
Leila Farid website's

By the request of regular participants of the "Camp Negum" Leila will teach 3 lesson on improvisation for live music: 1 - Taksim (1 hour), 2 - Beledi (1 hour), 3 - Tabla (1 hour).

 

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Yasmin (France/USA/Egypt)




-American dancer, Yasmin started her dance career in Paris performing nightly in two of the citiy’s most famous clubs alongside superstar singers (Ahmed Adawia, Sabah, Walid Toufiq) from the Middle East. After several years in France she moved to London to work in Omar Khayyam, the club of Mona Said, with master percussionist, Khamis Henkesh. This sparked the desire to go to Egypt and she moved to Cairo after a year where she appeared for two years in The Auberge and the Holiday Inn. Upon returning to the USA she began teaching and working with the Henkesh brothers to release traditional Egyptian music on CD. Her albums consistently receive rave reviews and high praise for the meticulously researched sleeve booklets. She has produced an album of Zar music and done extensive research about dance in Egypt and the Zaar. She is currently writing her first book about Zaar and trance techniques.

So, we have 3 lessons from Yasmin:

1 - Lecture at Sakkara Piramids “Dance in Pharonic Times” (1 h)

2- Lecture about “Spirituallity in Dance” (1 h)

3 - workshop “Zaar and trance dancing” (2 h)

 

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Alia Thabit (USA)



a dancer and choreographer of Lebanese and Palestinian descent, incorporates traditional and contemporary influences, colorful costumes, and dynamic music to present a wide range of Middle Eastern dance styles. Alia’s performances demystify the culture [SIand art of the Middle East, and delight audiences of all ages. In the fall of 2004, Alia started a professional dance company and won the Flynn Center’s NASA Space Grant, to develop a process of group collaboration and improvisation through which the company would create a new concert-length dance suite grounded in the dance, music, and costuming of the Middle East.She continues to experiment with Middle Eastern Dance, theater and improvisation as well as performing, teaching and writing about dance and culture.

Alia will teach
- workshop “Dance for and with others-Group Improvisation" (2-3 h)
- lecture: “Midnight at the Crossroads-Has Belly Dance Sold it’s Soul?” (1h)

 

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Tatiana Eshta (Odessa, Ukraine)



https://sites.google.com/site/tatianaeshta/home
- known in Ukraine and abroad bellydance teacher, a respected judge of the highest category. Founder and director of oriental dance studio "Eshta" in Odessa for more than 11 years, choreographer. From 1987 to 1990, she lived and worked in Egypt (Alexandria).
Fluency in Arabic, Egyptian dance presentation, a great teaching experience, knowledge of contest requirements from within, great sense of style, allow her to create expressive choreographies in different styles of oriental dance. Her classes are always accompanied by interesting and informative theoretical material, which allows for better feel the emotional essence of the Arab dance culture.
Organizer, co-organizer and master teacher of known traning and dance events: Open forum for professionals and amateurs of Oriental Dance (since 2007), which is now transformed into a festival of "Ahsan nes"; International Folklore Festival "In the Rhythms of the Gulf" with Irina Belopolskaya (Russian) (since 2010); Egyptian Festival "Camp" Negum "Leila Farid (Egypt) (since 2010) Tatiana successfully taught her seminars in different cities and countries - Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Greece and Egypt .

Tatiana will teach 2 WS:
1 - “Pharonic Dance” (90 min)
2 - “Love as expressed through Egyptian Dance” (90 min)

 

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Schedule of Camp Negum Spiritual Dance Retreat

Day 1 (13 November)
10-12 Registration in Hotel
12-1 Lunch at the Hotel
2-4:30 Coptic Cairo: Hanging Church and gates of Babalon, Well of Mary and Joseph, Oldest Synagog
4:30-5:30 Shopping near Coptic Cairo-Free trade market
6-8 Dinner in Khan el Kalili
8:00 National Tanoura Show

Day 2 (14 Nov)
Breakfast
10-12 Giza Pyramids
12-1 Lunch at the hotel
1-4 Sakkara Pyramids with Lecture “Dance in Pharonic Times” (Yasmin)
5-7 Rooftop class “Egyptian Technique” (Nelly Fuoad)
7-8 Dinner at the Hotel
9-10:30 Zaar Music show at Makan (we take the whole place)

Day 3 (15 Nov)
Breakfast
10-12 Class with live music “Egyptian Feeling” (Nelly Fuoad)
12-1 Check out and board the bus to Fayoum
2 Visit to Monastary on the way to Fayoum with picnic
3-5 Arrive and check in
5-7 Class of “Zaar and trance dancing” (Yasmin)
7-8 Improvisation “Taxsim” (Leila Farid)
8 Dinner
9 Show

Day 4 (16 Nov)
Breakfast
10-12
12-1:30 Dance “Pharonic Dance” (Tatiana Eshta)
2-3 Lunch
3-4 Lecture from Alia Thabit
4-5 Class of Improvisation “Beledi” (Leila Farid)
5-6:30 Tanoura (Sayed Lacky)
8 Dinner
9 Show

Day 5 (17 Nov)
10-12 Trip to the falling water
12-2 Dance “Dance for and with others-Group Improvisation” Alia Thabit
2-3 Lunch
3-4:30 Dance Class “Love as expressed through Egyptian Dance” (Tatiana Eshta)
5-6 Improvisation “Tabla” (Leila Farid)
6-7 Lecture about “Spirituallity in Dance” (Yasmin)
8 Dinner
9 Show

Day 6 (18 Nov)
Breakfast
10-12 Return to Cairo
12-2 Darb Al Ahmar school concert

 

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Of course, the current situation in Egypt inspires a lot of doubts in the souls of people who want to participate in our festival and of their families ... But! Many thanks to those who are not looking for anything made a pre-payment - for the staff of the festival it is an expression of great confidence! Until November, there is still much time, and, God willing, everything will be settled there, and we will succeed Help us, the God!