Israeli Dance Debka Oud

Mirjam and Hage' ulah while dancing at an Open Air Event in Berlin for beware Mother Earth a Debka-Style Dance

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Film & Animation

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• Israel
• Orient
• Dance
• Debka
• Dabke
• Oud
• Ud
• Folklore
• Worldmusic

[gilboagilboa]

1) At the risk of sounding sexist: I think Debka expresses a kind controlled physical power that makes it more appropriate for male dancers.

2) It's great the way the kids in the audience get into the music!

[Hageulah]

@gilboagilboa . The Israeli Debka is choreographed for women and men and danced by Dancers all around the whole world, it doesn't matter the age, religion, sex, ethnic roots....

[nissani1]

maybe to appease the outraged Arabic folks that are posting here you should post Israeli/Middle-eastern debka oud. That way you give credit to the Eastern sound that is much older than the state of Israel, but which the Israeli musicians do a good job of playing?

[Hageulah]

Yes, the state Israel was founded in 1948, but in this country/area there are living Jews since thousands of years and they have an orientalic culture too, not only the arabs and the Jews dance all over the whole world. But the Debka-Dance don't belong only to the arabs; the Jews - especially the Mizrahi - dance it too!

[nissani1]

Yes it is true, Mizrahi Jews, like my Syrian grandmother dance it, play it, and sometimes write Debka songs too. My only thought was that the title should be Israeli/Middle-Eastern Debka Oud, because when you put "Israeli Dance Debka Oud" you are being exclusionary of the Arabs, who as much as anybody, see this music as a part of their culture and heritage.

[Hageulah]

I wrote Israeli Dance Debka Oud, because the music might be arabic, but the Dance is an Israeli Choreography and not an arabic Dance! The Israeli Dances are new and modern Folklore, choreographed by popular Israeli jewish Choreographers, especially by Mizrahi.

[decaa]

Of course nobody can steal music or dance, nobody is telling you that you don't have the right to dance dabkeh.But don't say it's an israeli dance when obviously it's not. You can say that jews who lived in the Middle East danced dabkeh because they were influenced by the surrounding ARAB culture, but you CANT say it's an israeli dance, especially when we know that most of the people living in Israel are either American or European migrants who never heard about dabkeh before getting to Israel.

[HijaabifiedBeauty]

This is ridiculous!! PS there is no such thing as "Israel" and news flash..this is not Debka. I find this to be rather offensive.

[rashadisone9]

long live to palestineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

i hate you damn jewish tfoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooo

[rashadisone9]

you damn jewish your dabka is suck

[Argento1853]

@HijaabifiedBeauty News flash there is no such thing as a Paleshit or Fakestine. Indeed it's not Debka, I don't know why they bother in dancing it, I personally think Debka is ugly. I like Jewish dances better like Horah, Temani, much funner dances. But it's because Jews lived in Arab lands like Armenians, Georgians etc.

[MojaveViper29]

@HijaabifiedBeauty Newsflash! Israel is not only there....it is the only Middle Eastern country that is not drowning in superstition, ignorance, and stupidity!

Great music, by the way! Don'r let the racist assholes get you down.

[samsta001]

Who the hell cares about who claims the music or the dance?! Arab or Jewish it's good stuff. I'm of arabic decent and i think that the jews living in palestine since before 1948 have just as much of a right to claim this culture as arabs do...we're cousins anyway right?

[8n6k77BEB]

When will people realise that religions don't fight - only people do. Thanks for posting this video. Let me know if you are ever visiting England

[JohnJE123]

Huh? Half of Israeli Jews have roots in the Arab and Muslim world. The number of Americans living in Israel is quite small. By now, most Ashkenazim--other than recent immigrants from the former USSR--have been in Israel at least 2 generations and are more at home with hummous & falafel than golumpki & borsht. And Jews from Arab countries were not "influenced" by Arab culture, they were PART OF that culture. This is not to say that debka is "Israeli" to correct your "facts."

[JohnJE123]

I suspect that the origins of the debka pre-date BOTH the Jewish presence (c.10th Cen. BCE) in Eretz Yisrael/Falastin, AND the Arabization of the Fertile Crescent (beginning with the Muslim Conquest in the 7th Century CE). If we really want to get technical, I don't think any Middle East country or community can claim "ownership" of the debka. That being said, both sides of the debate should be sensitive to the feelings of Palestinians and of Mizrahi Jews, who were BOTH ethnically cleansed.