Nothing impresses me more during the month of February than a bunch of girls on a black stage with bells on their ankles jumping around, moving their hands rhythmically, accompanied by music so unfamiliar to my eastern European ear that I immediately give up categorizing and analyzing it and I accept it with all my heart and stomach. Not to [...]
Archive for February, 2008
“Dhik taam cha tam cha Madanam cha imaam cha maam cha” (“But fie most on Madan, the god of Love, this madness’ minister”)
Posted in On the Arts, tagged desi, indian, menaka takkar, moving to rythm on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tribal Fusion Style
Posted in On the Arts, tagged belly dancing, Rachel Brice on February 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s amazing how much resistance one can meet when breaking the rules in art. Even when the rules were made up a few centuries ago and were broken the same day they were established. Even if art is one of those fragile subjective areas where strict rules don’t bring anything good [...]
