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Performances on the 2004 video
(this page features still images taken directly from the video)
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The
Three Faces of the Moon
Performers: Bast
Symbolizing
"the complete woman," three dancers depict significant
aspects of womanhood - Maiden, Mother, and Crone - as
they dance under the Moon.
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Dueling
Butte'(s)
Performers: Anaheed, Amara, and Djahari
In
a unique, playful "specialty" number Anaheed
& Friends display articulate
muscle moves to classic American Music!
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Rumble
in the Casbah
Performers: Tandemonium
When
a Crusader and Saracen go "bump" in the night,
mayhem ensues!
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Rapture
Performers: Jenevieve featuring Jenevieve's x-magika dance
co.
The
rise of spirit from demonic debauchery and the chains
of hell to faith, god, love, and fearless abandonment
manifests in tantric bliss.
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Transference
Performers: Amara and Sa' Elayssa
A
couple deals with depression by transferring and diffusing
the pain between one another
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Grace
Performer: Cassandra
The
mythology of the mermaid longing for what she does not
have, the ability to walk on land, is expressed through
the sideshow tradition of
glass-walking.
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Loie
Fuller: Goddess of Light
Performer: Anaheed
In
an interpretive historic recreation, Anaheed pays tribute
to Loie Fuller, an innovative American Dancer who performed
in Paris in the 1890's and utilized light, fabric, and
symbolic imagery to create extraordinary dance performances.
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Part
1 and 2
Performers: Ya Helewa!
Five
slightly off kiltered characters follow shared movement
sequences with their own set of rules.
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Marionette
Performers: Subee Djinn
In
dreams, more truth is revealed than in reality.
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Cut From Stone
Performer: Ricodancer of BelCobraDance
A
piece about devotion, liberation, and the musicality of
sculpture.
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Drowners
Performers: Myths
We're
calling. Come hither, we want you to follow. Down where
we dance in the water green hollow. We'll sweep you to
carelessness, wrap you in
dreams, your land chains we'll sever. You'll stay here
forever.
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Rumble
in the Casbah, Part Deux
Performers: Tandemonium
Those
wacky warriors are at it again! This time there is a surprise
(or two)
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Volatile
Bodies (1999)
Performers: Ya Helewa!
Drawing on movements from the Mevlevi Sema, Egyptian Zar, and Moroccan Guedra, dancers express the space between disharmony and support.
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Fairytale
Performers: Desert Sin
A Fairy Court is infiltrated by goblins and chaos ensues until the power of
the Fairy Queen sets things right and her love restores the King to her side.
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Warning:
This video contains nudity, cross-dressing, violence, spirituality,
cultural imperialism, stereotyping, expression of feelings,
manipulation of audience members, talking and eating food
on stage.
We
hope this production makes you laugh, makes you cry, and
gives you inspiration to explore and express yourself through
dance.
Please
feel free to share
your questions or comments with Amara.
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