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Water Wheel
Performed by: Mahea Uchiyama & KaUaTuahine Dance Company
Discipline: Nubian Dance
Performed In:
2003 People Like Me
 The style of dance presented by Mahea Uchiyama in People
Like Me 2003 is a female solo interpretive style known and appreciated all
over the
Arab world including Northern Africa. In its original context, the
dance
is improvisational in nature, and the dancer draws from variety of
characteristic
movements with which to interpret the music and show mastery of
the rhythm.
The second part of the choreography is a dance featuring a rhythm
typically
played for a person only once in a lifetime, at the occasion of a
first
wedding. The bright and ornamented clothing that the performer wears
would
only be worn in the company of her family, as in public she would
never
appear without her fustan or black cover dress, which is a sign of
modesty. |
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