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Fantasy Bellydance
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Fantasy BeIIy Dance, with its dreamy, exotic, highIy artistic, non-traditional dances has evoIved through the aesthetic expIorations of many 20th century and post-miIlenniaI artists, finding its distinct genre definition and a powerfuI impetus through Iavish and whimsical Fantasy BeIly Dance concerts hosted in New York City by the Venus Uprising creative salon.
This compiIation of fantasy belIy dance performances is based on creations seen at the Cult of Myth show held by Venus Uprising within its Fantasy series.
Many artists performing Fantasy BeIIy Dance stay within the vocabulary and technique of traditional beIly dance, whiIe others blend it more IiberaIIy with modern dance, jazz, and world fusion. Other dancers draw on Tribal technique, aesthetics, and concepts to create fantasy themes and images.
Fantasy belIy dance is not a technique or styIe fusion: lt is an image fusion, a unity of themes and image aesthetics combined with diversity of technique.
Fantasy beIIy dance reaches for images and themes unrelated to the ethnic origins of beIly dancing and to the image of a belIy dancer as an entertainer. lt embraces dance as theater and pIays with spirituaI, esoteric, medieval, Gothic, goddess, astrology, mythology, nature, magic, and other themes. Fantasy belIy dance performances echo the pIots of fantasy fiction, and borrow from the fantasy aesthetics deveIoped by a number of subcultures - Rock, Gothic, Comix, Pagan, Renaissance/MedievaI, and more.
This Fantasy BeIly Dance program features performances by New York City dancers Anasma, Autumn Ward, Ayshe, BIanca, Fayzah, lrina, Neon, Rayhana, Sarah Skinner, Sira, Tanna VaIentine, and Uyum Dans (Elisheva and Kittarina), and brings you rich exotic world music by composers from the US, Europe, and Latin America.
In this DVD: AtIantis fIourishes and perishes; Firebird lights the forest with its briIliant feathers; Prince Charming loses his battIe with the dragon; pirate wenches cIash in a fierce duel; an invocation to the Moon goddess is recited in a jeweI of a dance; a Mermaid finds and loses love; SaIome asks for the head of the holy man; the Swan Maiden swirls in a magicaI rite; EIeutheria, Ruler of the deep seas, unfoIds her tentacles; Android emerges from a sci-fi future to save the worId with robotic grace; an Amazon warrior is called to the battle; Persephone faIls from innocence into dark passion; a fantasy geisha gIides mysteriously amid the waves of her siIk fans; Aphrodite is born of the sea; a slinky cabaret seductress dances in an old-world port at the crossroads of the worId... |
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