26. febbraio 2023

AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN DANCE: HOW TO EVOLVE A COMMUNITY. Dance is an aesthetic practice because it deals with form, at the same time, however, studying dance requires a commitment not only to aesthetic exploration, but also to the exploration of one's own sensibility. Obviously one is not more important than the other; rather, one should think of dance as a practice that makes us constantly process both form and content. The person who dances, in most cases, is an ordinary person, is an...

27. ottobre 2021

Not all dances are for everyone. The Egyptian dance yes. In the West, Egyptian dance is considered an ethnic dance. But what exactly is meant by "ethnic" dance? This word is used to group all dances other than ballet: African, Indian, Polynesian, etc... all in a single genre as opposed to the Euro-American genre. The West has put in the same category everything that is different from itself, when in reality, among the "ethnic" dances, we have an enormous variety of genres, origins, and...

28. settembre 2021

In Egyptian dance a trait naturally emerges that everyone recognizes as SENSUALITY. But what is sensuality? What does it look like? Why is it so subtly present in this dance, in this culture, in this music? Sensuality by definition is the ability to strongly feel impulses, it is the satisfaction in sensitive pleasures, from the aesthetic to that of taste. It is a quality that expresses inspiration, a way of dealing with life. It is the fluid aspect of life, perhaps elusive, the liquid aspect of...

25. settembre 2021

Dearest dancer, welcome to this video-course "ART AND TRADITION IN EGYPT: A JOURNEY ALONG THE NILE" Theory and Practice. One of the greatest needs in the community of dancers is to understand why some dances are like this, from what the traits that define the mood or the way derive. The material of this course is therefore a collection conceived as a sort of virtual-journey of information regarding the costumes, the jewels, the environment, but above all the native music and dance, which will...

16. gennaio 2021

The "dance" phenomenon has always been a reflection of society. When we talk about oriental dance, or belly dance, we are referring to the dance of a country, and in this case the country is Egypt. I like to call it Egyptian Dance and I love to call it a dance that is halfway between folklore and individual creation, precisely because it comes from a people, with its aesthetic sense and its ways, and develops by incorporating new elements, also from western culture. The reasons why Egyptian...

13. aprile 2020

Dance in all its forms, including the most spontaneous ones, is the oldest and most direct method to access and direct all types of energies that inhabit the psyche, the unconscious and the spirit of an individual or a whole group of people. The gesture is therefore a symbol that communicates on frequencies other than verbal ones. The DANCE phenomenon is a sort of "heir" of all the experiences of the body, a kind of container of all the movements that the human being has made since the...

02. aprile 2020

Feared by some and much desired by others, improvisation is often the center of some controversy ... here on my page I give you my version so that you can have an extra point of view with which to read your ideas. Oriental dance, as I have specified numerous times, is a dance halfway between Folklore and personal creation. That is, it is born from a people with its customs and aesthetic sense but it develops by integrating new elements, even from Western culture. The dominations in Egypt have...

29. dicembre 2012

Anyone interested in buying the CDs of FERNANDO DEPIAGGI "Ritmos de la musica Arabe Vol. 1 & 2." You can contact me directly via fcbk or via e-mail. They are a novelty compared to the classic CDs. on the rhythms as they also include variations for study with two rhythms and the closure. Interesting for those who teach.