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We ran into another belly dancer from Australia, Perth - Lisa - aka ZIZI she's been kind enough to let me tag along on her trips to mustafa esberiv....... s shop in the khan al karlili - FIVE floors of belly dance costumes !!!!!!!I was good I 've only bought a few things - an assuit dress and belt and a long beaded full dress - in a cloudy Greeny blue cooler. I've wandered around the khan for days - but bought only some jewelry (massive silver Bedouin earrings mmmmmm). Karen we have the cartuosh - it looks great!
I am in the process of lessons with nagwa, up to lesson number 3 , I've learnt more sharqi in three days than I ever learnt in Australia. Her style is the old school classical shaqui - no folk please! First lesson was her version of the basic steps for each rhythm: maksuom, malfoof, shimmy,taksim. This is good, her son plays drum while she and I dance in her ap
artment its great. She corrects all my steps but says she loves me like her daughter ! (she's a smooth operator- i wasnt expecting the kiss though !). To learn the steps with the rhythm makes perfect sense to me as then you know how o dance to the music - I hate seeing dancers who dance over the music - on top of it rather than with it - hard to describe but its true!So its officially Ramadan yesterday - we took the metro to zamalek (the island in the middle of Cairo) and went up the tower to see the view then kicked around the art gallery till about 2 ish when they shut.
The metro on the way back was crowded - the 2 front carriages are women only but jam packed with people heading home for ramadan breakfast (they fast all day). Then between 4 and 7/ 8 the street is empty - totally !
We watched the sun set and heard the call to prayer at about 6, but ist still very quiet which is really surreal in this busy buslting city were its normally hard to find a palce to sit and dangerous to cross the road . Me were picked up and shuttled to madam n's house for lesson 2 (revision and a choreogphy. I'm lucky I'm sharing the ride with a Swiss dancer, danellia who is doing 2 hours a day so I also get to watch her class, I get feed and given drinks - its all part of the process .
This morning we walked down to Mohammad Ali St and bought a pretty drum and a mizmar for bear ! Tonight we do henna tattoo and maybe zagatt !
2 comments:
Hi to you both, THANK YOU for the cartouche, I am so excited! Please email if you need cash transferred - can do it straight away for you if you need. Loving your thoughts as you travel, can't wait to catch up and see some of this dancing when you get home. Love Karen
Hi Kirsten,
A fellow bellydancer here...from the US. I will be back in Cairo in June and really want to take classes with Nagwa Sultan. What did you find as the best way to contact her before hand? or did you wait until you got there? Any info would be appreciated!!
Thanks
jenna@worldrhythmandmotion.com
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