FELLAHI Fellahi is a joyful and vivacious dance of farmers from the northern Egypt, depicting their daily lives like harvesting or carrying water. The prop used in the style is a pitcher. Costume for fellahi dance consists of long, loose dresses with flowers and flounces, and a headscarf. A dancer may also have a scarf […]
ESKANDARANI Eskandarani or Iskandarani is an urban folklore from Alexandria, the port city in Egypt. Eskandarani outfit is quite unusual – it consists of a short dress to knees, with flounces, a headscarf with tassels or flowers and high heels. Eskandarani can be danced with a large black shawl called melaya – then the dance […]
SAIDI Saidi is a folk dance from the Upper Egypt region of Said. This style was introduced on stage by Mahmoud Reda. I mentioned the male version of this dance with the cane called tahtib in the previous post – saidi is it’s female version. It can also be danced with a cane made of […]
TAHTIB Tahtib is a folk Egyptian male dance called also a “stick/cane dance”. But first, tahtib was a fighting martial art from Upper Egypt – style of self-defense. The image of men fighting in this manner is in the Egyptian pyramids. Lately it evolved into a dance – imitation of a battle with a wooden […]