Samia Gamal (سامية جمال)

Hello Dancers,

This post is for my Beginning students, but I hope anyone reading will enjoy this performance. We started dancing to the song Zeina, which was composed by the Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Monday night. I wanted to show you a clip of the Egyptian belly dance legend Samia Gamal (سامية جمال) dancing to this song in a classic clip from Egyptian cinema.

Samia Gamal performs to the music 'Zeina' composed by Mohamed Abdel Wahab in a scene from the 1956 Egyptian film 'Zanouba' (زنوبة).

I think you can get a feel for what we were talking about in class about not relying so much on counting.

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Alisa

Samia Gamal (سامية جمال)

Hello Dancers,

Today will just a really quick post because the week completely got away from me.

This is a beautiful oriental fantasy style clip featuring the legendary Egyptian belly dancer Samia Gamal (سامية جمال). The kind of thing you will only see in the glamorous world of the movie musicals.

Samia Gamal performing in the 1947 Egyptian film 'Habib Al Omr' (Love of My Life حبيب العمر) which starred Farid al Atrash, Lola Sedky, Hassan Fayek and Ismail Yassin.

The caption is courtesy of TheCaroVan, whose Vimeo channel I always encourage students to check out!

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I’ll be back with more next week!