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Among the best-known of the Arab traditional dances are the belly dance, the ardah, and the dabke. [8] Traditional dancing is still popular among expatriate Arabs and has also been successfully exported to international folk dance groups all over the world. All dancers wear the traditional costume to embody the history of their culture and tell ...
According to Youssef Ibrahim Yazbec, a Lebanese historian, journalist, and politician, [9] the dabke descends from Phoenician dances thousands of years old. [10] According to Palestinian folklorists Abdul-Latif Barghouthi and Awwad Sa'ud al-'Awwad, the dabke jumps may have originated in ancient Canaanite fertility rituals related to agriculture, chasing off evil spirits and protecting young ...
Tahtib (Egyptian Arabic: تحطيب, romanized: taḥṭīb) is the term for a traditional stick-fighting martial art [1] originally named fan a'nazaha wa-tahtib ("the art of being straight and honest through the use of stick"). [2] The original martial version of tahtib later evolved into an Egyptian folk dance with a wooden stick.
Khaleegy' or Khaliji (from Arabic خليج) is a mixture of modern style and traditional folkloric dance from the Persian Gulf countries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The name of the dance literally means "gulf" in Arabic and it is performed by women at weddings and other social events. Over ...
[10] [11] The term "Arabic dance" is often associated with the belly dance. However, there are many styles of traditional Arab dance, [12] and many of them have a long history. [13] These may be folk dances, or dances that were once performed as rituals or as entertainment spectacle, and some may have been performed in the imperial court. [14]
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Tufo songs are transmitted orally and may be composed by one of the dancer's or by the group's poet. [6] They are usually in the Emakhuwa language but may also be in Arabic or Portuguese. [6] The dancers must wear matching scarves and capulanas, which are a kind of sarong made from brightly coloured printed cloth. [6]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 December 2024. Genre of music Reggada Reggada dance Native name الرڭادة Stylistic origins Moroccan music Cultural origins Arab tribes Typical instruments Traditional instruments Adjounn, Tamja, Galal, Ghaita, Zamar and modern: synthesizer Other topics Moroccan music 2025 in reggada Reggada is a ...