Look! Look! Gary made a special blog just of the talk we gave at SPT on the Autré! With new links and videos! Cool!
Category: dance
Houri Series
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What would be of most benefit to this sad girl with the scared eyes? Is she from a reform congregation? Is she one of those feminists? “The women do not need to dance because they are on a higher level than the men.” He squinted a little, trying to hit the right note with this hostile, melancholy American Jewess. He hoped to. “Do angels need to dance?”
I am tired of putting my head onto the bodies in masterpieces for now, so I am starting the Houri Series, which allows me to be exhibitionistic while “commenting on” orientalism, Levantine subjecthood, gender, dance kinetics, etc. The textual additions and Photoshop filters help to make this art, one hopes.
More at flickr, and more to come, unless the PC police get me first.
Sabah – zennuba -1956
http://youtube.com/v/4QGA8e73M78
Nadia Jamal dancing fifties style. I also found a wonderful source for bellydance videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Kirabellydancer