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Kalantzakos Loukas New promo album:...Kyrie... Song:Traces of sadness

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Kalantzakos Loukas - Hug of the moon

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Enti Essout sous-titres français + english substitle إنت الصوت

Yasser Jradi, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Bendir Man, Si Lemhaf, Nawel Ben Kraiem et Armada Bizerta

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A l'origine de cette chanson fut la rencontre de deux femmes. La première, Philippa Neave qui fait partie de l'équipe du ...

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Akran khan part2

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Kandinsky - Mozaic Dance Company

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Origins - Hilal Dance Canberra

Choreographed in the Hilal Dance classical style by Rachael Hilton, the piece creates a sense of dramatic expectation, expansively building with me...

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BECOMING

TANZHAUS nrw 2009

In Becoming, choreographer Alessandro Bascioni combines theatre and dance with idiosyncratic fluid and dramatic movement expressi...

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A' NOUR 2 Tanzhus nrw

The final piece, called Shadow of Light, moves into the world of the animistic ritual, based on the concept that ones body and mind are compelled ...

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A' NOUR 1 - Tanzhaus nrw

Premiered inTanzhaus nrw March 2011.This opening piece, with soft melodies and bittersweet sounds of the Arghul and the Sufara flute, reminiscent o...

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"Becoming" Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest

"Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest "

Choroeography: Alessandro Bascioni

Dancers: Francesca Di Ieso, Alessandro Bascioni, Mirella Maciariello.

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Tunisia/Nouba

chansons traditionnelles tunisiennes

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"El Saqiyeh" (The Waterwheel) at Tanzhaus nrw

Filmed & premiered at Tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf 2006

Choreography: Alessandro Bascioni

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"Leylat Masr" Tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf

Filmed/premered at Tanzhaus Dusseldorf 2005

Choreography: Alessandro Bascioni

Music: Hassan Abul Seoud

Lights: Ansgard Kluge

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"Awakening"

Filmed at Rotebühl Theater Stuttgart 2008

Choreography: Alessandro Bascioni

Music: Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Live Music: Joseph Tawadros

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About Iskandar Dance Company

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Iskandar Dance Company is uniquely placed in the world.

Choreographer Alessandro Bascioni uses strong and singular aesthetics, conveying purity of movement, live rhythm and music with dramatic content and complexities without superfluous elements. Through the idiom of Hilal Dance, the Music and rhythm are intrinsically connected to the musicality of the body showing the dance at its core, a cultural tradition reinterpreted as an integrated contemporary expression.

Alessandro Bascioni, international dancer, choreographer and teacher based in both Florence & London, has trained and specialised in Hilal Dance for over 10 years. His earlier training has been in North African dance, African dance. In recent years he has toured extensively with the Hilal Dance Company in major productions including Al Janub (2001) and Aseel (2004-05) where he began his collaboration with the international artist and founder Suraya Hilal.

In 2005 he set up and launched his own Iskandar Dance Company, with the premier of the new work El Saqiyeh (The Waterwheel) in the Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf in March 2006. The Company has gone to tour in Europe in many Theatre and Festivals with popular and critical acclaim, among them:

•Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf 2006
•Kulturhaus, Chur, 2006
•Edinburgh Festival, 2006
•International Dance Festival, Karlsruhe, 2006
•Accademie International de Wallonie, 2006
•Dance Base, Scotlands Dance House 2006
•Kulturzentrum-Tempel, Germany, 2007
•The Drum Auditorium, Birmingham 2007
•CCA (Centre Culturelle Arabe), Brussels 2007
•Sadlers Wells Londons Dance House, 2007
•IMA (Institute du Monde Arabe) Paris 2007
•Teatro delle Erbe, Milan 2008
•Rothebul-Theatre, Suttgart 2008
•Kultur-Scenario-Hall, Karlsruhe 2008
•The Drum Auditorium Birmingham 2008
•Tobacco Factory Theatre Bristol 2008
•Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf 2009
Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf 2011

Press quote:

•"A compelling performance." - (Westdeusche Zeitung)

•"Mesmerising" - The British Theatre Guide

• "There is a meditative subtlety in what the choreographer Alessandro el Bascioni and his fellow dancers achieve -El Saqiyeh is like an oasis of restorative calm. (The Herald) Mary Brennan - Edinburgh Festival

• "Iskandar Dance Companys El Saqiyeh, is slow and flowing. The dancers have a soft, bouncy weight as they take small galloping steps... light and calm as their silken skirt whirl around their ankles". Katie Philips, (The Stage)

• "It was the sense of freedom which ran through Iskandar Dance Company's beautiful El Saqiyeh...Three dancers breeze onto the stage, dancing in unison, encircling one another, weaving in and out..giving a wonderful sense of harmony between costume, dance and music." (Ballet Magazine) Ian Palmer

On El Saqiyeh,
• Alessandro el Bascioni the enigmatic lead dancer shows through his choreography an appreciation of the dimension of his stage and produces dances which although they repeat are rarely repetitivea well hour spent at Sadlers Wells theatre. (Dancing Times) Gerald Dowler

"El Saqiyeh...Shows the vitality of pure dance." (La Tribune de Bruxelles)

•"Steps are so smooth they look like they are gliding..." (The List) Kelly Apter

Hilal Dance is a contemporary form, encompassing holistic and unique movement concepts which allow full exploration of a wide range of expression through music and rhythm intrinsically connected to the body and its movement.

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