Jehan and her temple dancers are a group based in New York, I think.
There are a few instructional/workout dvds put out with these dancers.
Some of them include Blanca, Neon (although on her own, Neon's style strays from that of Jehan), oh I forget some of the others, Ayshe and Leyla I think are two others... but anyhow...
I was having a hard time giving a name to their style when I was trying to describe it to a friend... there are a lot of folkloric moves, it's earthy, but there are a lot 'showgirl' moves too that bring to mind cabaret or even jazz.... I resorted to thinking of her style as 'gypsy style' (which is the tag I give anything too diverse-ly influenced for me to understand as one style or another)... but I was wondering if there IS an actual name for that style of bellydancing, that is more universally acknowledged as describing that style.
There are a few instructional/workout dvds put out with these dancers.
Some of them include Blanca, Neon (although on her own, Neon's style strays from that of Jehan), oh I forget some of the others, Ayshe and Leyla I think are two others... but anyhow...
I was having a hard time giving a name to their style when I was trying to describe it to a friend... there are a lot of folkloric moves, it's earthy, but there are a lot 'showgirl' moves too that bring to mind cabaret or even jazz.... I resorted to thinking of her style as 'gypsy style' (which is the tag I give anything too diverse-ly influenced for me to understand as one style or another)... but I was wondering if there IS an actual name for that style of bellydancing, that is more universally acknowledged as describing that style.
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Re: what would you call the style of Jehan and her dancers?
Tue, April 24, 2007 - 6:44 AMI would say American Cabaret style with a touch of goddess dancing thrown in. I think Ayshe's style is hard to lable, I guess you could label it as fusion (I think she is amazing). From what I understand, Jehan got her chops from working in all the Arabic clubs in NYC, which were all a mixture of Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, etc. Dancers from that time are really able to bring in a lot of the essences of all the cultures, as well as to jazz it up using some formal training in other dance diciplines. -
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Re: what would you call the style of Jehan and her dancers?
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 10:41 AMI think Ayshe calls her style "Passion bellydance" or something like that ...I think I remember reading that somewhere
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