As I mentioned last week, we are going to be working with Shaabi music in my virtual belly dance classes through the South San Francisco Parks and Rec (you can still sign up and join us!*).
I do often play Shaabi music in my classes because I love it, but we will be studying it more closely. Shaabi music is the music of the regular people and we will talk more about this in class.
In honor of that, I thought I would show clip of the ‘King of Shaabi’, Ahmed Adaweya (أحمد عدوية) and everyone’s favorite baladi dancer Souheir Zaki (سهير زكي). This is an old, blurry one but you will still have no problem appreciating the feeling of the beautiful singing and dancing.
Ahmed Adaweya is the first modern Shaabi superstar and his music is still beloved today.
I hope you enjoy the clip and enjoy dancing in class. We’re doing a more modern song in class but we will talk about the development as we dance, and maybe I will share some more Shaabi next week. I shared some cute clips of Dina dancing to a Shabbi song last week.
In other news, in addition to my regular virtual belly dance classes (info below), I am planning on doing a special fingers cymbals (zills) Zoom class on Saturday, June 28th at 2PM. I’ll post more information about it later in the week but you can contact me to register or with any questions.
* The South San Francisco Parks and Rec Department have made my online classes available to the public for free, but you do need to preregister at their online catalog so they can send you a secure invitation to join. Enter code SP1-471 in the box under ‘Filter’ and our class will come up - it’s called ‘Virtual-Belly Dancing’.
You can always contact me with any questions!