The show opens the door into our fatal Gypsy world, built of emotions, tension, fight - and everlasting energy, happiness, and harmony which we share with you in our Gypsy world-language: music, dance, rhythm, verse, and rap. (www.youtube.com/gypsyfevershow)
Roma világzene- és tánc-fúziók „a Balkántól Arábiáig" az Etnorom együttes világhírű zenészeivel, a kortárs roma jazz kiváló képviselőivel, és Ceglédi Alexandrával, a 100% Nőstény Projekt© vezetőjével. Arab, török, balkáni érzékébresztő, Gypsy jazz, roma szving, szerb funky, magyar, orosz, román „csajos-csávós"... Lüktető ritmusok, szívből jövő dallamok és a termékenységi tánc felemelő energiája egy forró és improvizatív Gypsy show-ban.
Fertility Dance Revolution:
Belly Dance, A Part of The Romany Dance Culture
In Hungary, Gypsy women have to keep their hips strictly still while dancing. The situation is different in Turkey and Egypt, where the dancers of other, Arlija, Navar, Haleb and Ghawazee Gypsy tribes made a huge effect on the evolution of today's belly dance.
The beginning of the story goes back to ancient India. Between the 1st and the 10th century AD., Romany tribes (Indo-European people) had left North India in large numbers and wandered towards the Persian Gulf, where they separated into two directions: some groups continued their way towards Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkans and Hungary, some groups turned towards North Africa: Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Southern Spain (Andalusia). Wherever Gypsies migrated, they made - and still make - a huge effect on the receiving countries' dance and music culture.
Traditionally, Romany people make their living from dance, making music, and performances on street fairs. The Ghawazee women used dynamic hip shakes as a symbol of fertility and seduction, and sewed the coins they received for their dance onto their clothes: this was the predecessor of the hip scarves we do our shimmies in today.
From the 7th century AD., Arabic tribes invaded into the Persian Gulf and into the North African region: therefore, Islam became the dominant religion in Turkey, in Egypt and in the North African countries. Women - worshipped in Pre-Islamic cultures - were more and more pushed 'behind the curtains', into closed communities detached from society, living their lives locked in the harem (the part of the house kept exclusively for women). They could only enjoy fun and community between themselves, at small celebrations held in the harem, and in the hammams (Turkish baths), such as the 'ladies' days' before the wedding, when the bride received the necessary knowledge about making her husband happy from the wise women ('sheikhas'), and was decorated with the patterns of the saint henna. As an entertainment to these events, Muslim women invited women dancers from the wandering Gypsy tribes who were 'untouched' by the rules of Islam, and used their body free: hip shakes and dynamic fertility moves were integrated in their dance: the basic movements of the most beautiful feminine dance style we call 'belly dance' today...
Gypsy women in Hungary were not aware of their close relation to belly dance, and were not very found of it, until Alexandra Ceglédi became the solo dancer of Etnorom Ensemble in 2005, and started the so-called 'Belly Dance Revolution'. When Gypsy women saw her dancing, they immediately felt the spiritual connection with belly dance, and started to respect it, moreover, they became - some openly, some secretly - enthusiastic about the dance, which carries the ancient knowledge of their far-away sisters. Six years of working together, clashing emotions, winding life pathes, passion, pain, and happiness brought Alexandra & Etnorom's show: 'romFatale/the people of fate' to life, in which their eternal Gypsy world is uncovered by music, dance, rhythm, verse, and rap.
Alexandra concentrates on sharing the joy, beauty and energy of Oriental, African, and Hawaiian fertility dances with all women, regardless of age, body build and origin. As she says, fertility dance is the common treasure of all women, our 'secret weapon' that liberates unlimited physical and spiritual energies from our body and soul, makes us love ourselves more, and therefore, to be able to give more love to others.
www.femaleproject.org
info@femaleproject.org
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