Sphinx Festival Event 2009
Sphinx Festival 2009 DVD
Egyptology and the Arts, Dance and Music of Egypt
Part 1 - Festival Speakers
Moustafa Gadalla (Egyptology/Cosmology)
Jennifer Carmen (Sacred Geometry)
Mahmoud Reda (Egyptian Dance Theatre)
Farida Fahmy (Principle Reda Troupe)
Leslie Zehr (Author - The Universal Dancer)
Paola Blanton (Duncan Dance)
Loai Omran (Master Islamic Arts & Architecture)
Randa Baligh (Egyptologist/ Museum Curator)
Julie-Ann Odell (Drum Circle Facilitator)
Night 1 - Water Element - Night on the Nile
Night 2 - Fire Element - Egyptian Moulid
Night 3 - Earth Element - Shamanic Zaar
Night 4 - Air Element - Tanoura & Muwashahat
Night 5 - Folkloric Show Reda Troupe
Running time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
Features 6 x performance troupe choreographies:
Ghawazee, Nubian, Fellahin, Eskenderani, Assaya, Saiidi
Cost: $35 plus $10 postage and handling
Sphinx Festival Event 2010
Egyptian Folkloric Dance, Culture and Ethnology
A valuable resource with world authorities on Egyptian Dance. The resource pack features comprehensive information of various genres of folkloric and ethnic dance styles adapted to theatre, since the Reda troupe's creative interpretation; Sayidi, Fallahin, Muwashahat, Nubian, Haggalah, Milayah, Siwa, Bedouin. 4 disc set includes:
*DVD1 Seminars with Farida Fahmy & Mahmoud Reda
*DVD 2 Egyptian Ethnic Costume show - Shahira Mehrez
*DVD3 Egyptian Folkloric Dance Performances and Zaar.
*CD contain 50 pages of excellent festival notes from seminars as PDFs, easy to read or print.
3 x DVDs of events and
1 x Seminar notes CD (50 pages of pdfs)
Cost: $120 USD plus $10 postage
Farida Fahmy Event 2011
An insight into the world of one
of the world's top Egyptian theatre
dance artists, in her own words.
Keti Sharif presents FARIDA - a documentary about Egypt's legend of dance, Farida Fahmy. Farida talks about her life, both personal and public - as the lead dancer of 25 years of the Reda Troupe. The Reda Troupe revolutionised dance theatre in Egypt and paved the way for a new millenieu of dance worldwide.
Features personal interviews with Farida Fahmy and Mahmoud Reda, plus rare images of Farida's life and dance clips plus previously unseen footage.
Farida also speaks about the various genres of Egyptian dance stylised by the Reda Troupe; Fellahin, Sayidi, Milaya, Haggalah, Muwashahat, Siwa and Nubian.
1 x DVD contains three sections:
Chapter 1: Farida Fahmy - Early Life
Chapter 2: The Reda Troupe
Chapter 3: Genres of Egyptian Dance
$45 plus $10 postage and handling
- NEW - Transcripts of Farida Fahmy's Perth Workshops De 1-5 2011 available by Email 40 pages of PDFS - comprehensive notes from the workshops and Seminars: |
