Is there an Arabic broom dance?

[Duvet]

That's all I'm asking. Just my mind running around the idea of dance being a social thing, performed impromptu, with whatever might be lying around.

 

[Mosaic]

I've never heard of one
~Mosaic

 

[Shanazel]

If there was one it has apparently been swept under the rug and forgotten there.

 

[khanjar]

Not Arabic, but there is at least one Indian broom dance as shown in the following clip from a most excellent movie;

Meenah's dancing "East is East" movie - YouTube

 

[shiradotnet]

That's all I'm asking. Just my mind running around the idea of dance being a social thing, performed impromptu, with whatever might be lying around.

Folk troupes often incorporate items into their performances that represent daily life. That's how Reda Troupe came to use water jugs - there wasn't a traditional "jug" dance in Egypt, but fellahin women DID carry jugs to get water in real life, so Reda Troupe incorporated jugs into a dance depiction of them. That's also how Reda Troupe came to use melayas.

In the Egyptian movie Beauty and the Scoundrel, there's a scene where women dance while holding bowls of beans.

So while there's no "official" broom dance that I know of, a dancer could certainly incorporate a broom into a folkloric dance if depicting the sort of character that might use a broom in real life.

 

[jahbie]

I've seen brooms used in a Hallowe'en haflah with the dancers dressed as witches, just for fun.

 

[Duvet]

This is the sort of broom dance I'm familiar with;

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB7tZ5904NM

Unfortunately the clip stops too soon, but from experience he's probably about to do what this man does;

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=0M5Pe92Vsqk&feature=endscreen