#Blast from the past

A dialogue between a novelist and a dancer
The novelist is Ehsan Abdulquddus and Farida Fahmy

What could be going on a dialogue between the writer and dancer ..?

And how to be a modern form between them ..?

Art that combines them .. also share the expressed .. each one in his own way and style .. .. During this dialogue Ehsan Abdul Quddus spoke about the dance .. and unique Fahmy discussed the literature and story .. this is interesting to you from the archives of the press in 1968 dialogue ..

Ehsan: I have a question for you .. is a problem and not a question .. I always felt that the Egyptian dance strength reflects the technical sense of a national but an oppressed and wronged, which indicates that the dance was born with us and that nature in us that young daughters dancing and are moving .. but when they grow up they stop to dance Therefore must be our folk dancing .. With the development of years event something unfortunate is that our daughters and our youth only to find western dancing swaying to the melodies and the steps .. did not find a culture dance bring them together .. and my question for dance our youth rally and the lack of our society to eastern dance was why it did not encourage belly dancing .. I want to know from you, for example .. How you learned to dance and when was the first directing you in this art and how you managed to dance in front of the public and not in front of the mirrors just so transformed from a small dance in the mirror .. to dance to Egypt.

Farida: I started and I'm a little dance at home I was sitting with my grandmother and gathered the family children .. someone drumming and I dance .. When my father was studying in the Faculty of Engineering, we were staying in the same college and you dance between students .. In the school entered the ballet and then I got to know Mahmoud and Ali Reda in the Heloledo club and we were dancing Espanioly Klaket .. and then Mahmoud began to hate exotic dances away from our culture so he traveled and looking for authentic folk dances from the headquarte of our country ..

Ehsan: Is Baladi dance bad in your opinion!

Farida: never .. never .. but its presence in cabarets and its association with colonization make it appear begging and is not art! ..

Ehsan: Is it possible to evolve to the point that the girl is in the household of our society or the center of her friends and dancing .. for example when I was a small kid I watch women dance in zar concerts and watching ladies dance, but in the women only society so belly dance became defect to me because it is far from the men!

Farida: evolution in my opinion .. possible but necessary for the evolution of history!

Ehsan: I looked long and I did not find a dance history for eastern dance so I wrote it .. or predict a history and I said that the days of the Pharaohs was based on moving the legs and hands and not on the belly shake, waist .. Until the reign of the sultans and the Harem .. Sultan this man who owns sixty women .. Locked in the harem women and graduated from the prison to dance in front of him .. the only expression is dance .. the only freedom isdance .. and I imagined that these harem go out and speak and complain about all of them

With the dance before the Sultan .. The history of dance suit where found in Cleopatra clothes and the first I saw you once where very happy because I found that your movements do not have a pain, free nor shame and expressive.

Farida: I represent what Mahmoud instruct movements he wraparound the country and see the dances of the original headquartered and then puts it very simple decorations .

Ehsan: I have a hope that Mahmoud can create Egyptian dance with young men and women dance collective express happiness and our lives,Birthdays and culture..

Farida: this dance can not authored .. must come with time .. and in need of tune that wraps everyone and make them do the same movements and swaying to the same rhythm tone .. actually shaking ..

Ehsan: dance farmyard exist .. dance Alasaih "cane" that holds the Egyptian character does not exist in any country in the world except our country .. but the drawback is the one who has become a constraint for the sake of group dancing I want you and Mahmoud and Ali do this dance that already exist but have to be taken and shake off the dust and give them life again.

Farida: I believe in that perception Applied create like this dance, for example, in Mansoura .. country traditions drawback and other .. originated folklore band and by the people's that dancing girls and Astrkn where as well as in the lake .. and slowly Senguena our society entity and the history of folk dance and its importance.

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Ahsan: I always admire the dances in which the Egyptian Mahmoud retains the character, such as licorice, horses, born and Nubia .. as well as the dances that expressed national figure .. such as the Sudanese bathroom dance.

Unique: Mahmoud designer works dances each Arab country and actually began the tour to collect these dances .. and registers the common folk melodies there.

Ahsan: I hope to dance enters every home .. so that the daughters of families to provide a unique dance Trqsa .. I think that the only way to design Mahmoud dance group of girls .. and be easy melody and the steps .. and by the way do you danced days and felt remorse?

Unique: I regretted we danced on the death of my sister Ndidh .. because I dance as the machine .. The dance, which I am ashamed when I remember .. it when I dance Spainoly .. I felt it strange me .. and when he looked Mahmoud draws us steps folk dances I felt right Bugeany .. and where it was real.

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