Sphinx Festival Videos & Resources: Buy, Stream, Download
Sphinx Festival videos from Egypt, are now available to purchase online - stream or download directly to your computer. The collection includes seminar footage, plus special interviews with festival guests, Farida Fahmy & Mahmoud Reda. We trust you will respect that they are copyright, for personal use and learning. Email me if you have any queries. We also have some FREE VIDEOS HERE.
Kind regards, Keti Sharif
Director & Producer, Sphinx Festival
Sphinx Festival 2009
Egyptology and the Arts
Egyptian Folk Arts and Ethnology
Red Sea Odyssey
Held beside the Pyramids, guests included Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy, Moustafa Gadalla & Dr Randa Baligh on the evolution of art and culture in Egypt, from Egyptology to ethnology. We celebrated the 50 year anniversary of Mahmoud & Farida, with a Gala event with folkloric performances, plus traditional Moulid and Zaar events.
Set amongst lush gardens in Cairo, the event featured seminars on Egyptian folkloric dance, costume and music with Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy, Dr Randa Baligh & Dr Shahira Mehrez. Highlights included Shahira's costume show and Mahmoud & Farida's world first series on Egyptian folk styles.
Held on the Red Sea, Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy, Liza Laziza, Nessrin, Essam Said explored fluidity and flow in dance. Highlights included snorkelling with wild dolphins, traditional Saiidi in the Oasis and Gala performance night in El Gouna. This was Mahmoud Reda's last festival, since he ceased teaching.
Purchase Sphinx Festival Videos & Cultural Resources to Download to Your Computer
Farida's workshop filmed at WAMED 2014, her signature Muwashahat (Andalucian style) dance sequences, with tips on flowing movement, weight shift, foot patterning, and turns. Reda style stage techniques and sequences. Intermediate level.
Cost: $30 Format: Video Download. Duration: 70 minutes. File size: 530 MB.
A touching interview with Egyptian dance pioneer, Mahmoud Reda in his dowtown studio, Cairo 2011. Mahmoud's final interview before retiring; the studio has since closed.
Cost: $10 Format: Video Download. Video Duration: 25 minutes. File size: 230 MB.
Sphinx festival highlights from the 2009 event with Moustafa Gadalla, Farida Fahmy, Mahmoud Reda & guests, plus folk performances and Zaar event.
Cost: $15 Format: Video Download. Duration: 60 minutes. File size: 560 MB.
Seminars & Workshops by Farida Fahmy & Mahmoud Reda
Farida Fahmy's & Mahmoud Reda's ethnology seminars: Day 1 Milayah, Day 2 Sayidi & Nubian, Day 3 Haggalah & Fellahin, Day 4 Bedouin & Siwa, Day 5 Muwashahat
Cost: $25 Format: Video Download. Duration: 120 minutes. File size: 950 MB.
FREE SAMPLE: Click here to download & view contents & intro to Seminar Notes.
Seminars & Workshops by Farida Fahmy & Mahmoud Reda
Official transcripts for each day of ethnology seminars: Day 1 Milayah, Day 2 Sayidi & Nubian, Day 3 Haggalah & Fellahin, Day 4 Bedouin & Siwa, Day 5 Muwashahat. Educational resource containing all seminar notes and references.
Cost: $15 Format: Pdf Ebooks 67 pages. 5 x transcripts. File size: 30 MB.
The Sphinx festival gala party featured a show on a Nile Cruise, with Reda dancers, performing Muwshahat, dancing with the Milayah, plus Sayiidi style, Haggalah, Nubian and more. Plus an evening of Zaar ritual performance.
Cost: $10 Format: Video Download. Video Duration: 60 minutes. File size: 440 MB.
FARIDA - The Life of Farida Fahmy (feature length documentary)
Farida Fahmy on her life, the Reda Troupe, plus interviews with Mahmoud Reda. Reda style folkloric dances - Haggalah, Fellahin, Nubian, Saiidi, Milayah, Muwashshat.
Cost: $20 Format: Video Download. Video Duration: 90 minutes. File size: 480 MB.
Dr Shahira Mehrez - Egyptian Ethnic Costumes Presentation
Ethnologist Dr Shahira Mehrez presents her rare collection of ethnic costumes from Nubia, Upper Egypt, Delta, Oasis, Sinai & Siwa. Enjoy her lecture on regonal styles.
Cost: $20 Format: Video Download. Video Duration: 60 minutes. File size: 560 MB.
Farida Fahmy on Reda folkloric costumes - Haggalah, Fellahin, Nubian, Saiidi, Milayah, Muwashshat, Siwa & Bedouin featuring her own designs, plus stage footage.
Cost: $10 Format: Video Download. Video Duration: 17 minutes. File size: 480 MB.
Farida Fahmy's Thesis & Costume Ebooks
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Farida Fahmy Farida's UCLA Thesis on the Reda Troupe, English Version 96 page E-book $15 |
Farida Fahmy Transcripts Transcripts of 2011 wkshops Egyptian Dance Aesthetics 33 page ebook $12 |
80 of farida's hand-drawn costume designs, vintage, tribal, exotic, 20's and more 1 x E-book $18 |
Elegant dress drawings - Farida's own hand-drawn Muwashahat designs 1 x E-book $10 |
Elegant costumes - Farida's hand-drawn Muwashahat pantaloon designs 1 x E-book $10 |
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Farida's hand-drawn designs for stage Fellahin dance 1 x E-book $10 |
Haggalah designs to accentuate hip oscillations 1 x E-book $10 |
Feminine dress designs for dancing with the Milayah 1 x E-book $10 |
Nubian dresses - traditional front flare & jewellery 1 x E-book $10 |
Sayidi dress designs for Raks El Assaya and Sayidi style 1 x E-book $10 |
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Educational Resources and CDs by Keti Sharif
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for Bellydancers Info-rich 50 page ebook, 4 x video seminar film clips Ebook, 4x videos $40 |
Teaching Bellydance |
Live recordings from Cairo for classical bellydance: Live Egyptian Music 1 x CD download $8 |
Om Kothsoum & Adewaya baladi medleys by Gebali slow and sensual 1 x CD download $8 |
Magic of the Orient |
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