a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/S4K8IEGPcBI/AAAAAAAAACw/jesFnqbUXSk/s1600-h/Egyptian-tablah.jpg" target="_blank"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GVi5NXGe_lY/S4K8IEGPcBI/AAAAAAAAACw/jesFnqbUXSk/s200/Egyptian-tablah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441118146541875218" border="0" //abr /Yesterday I attended a workshop on Egyptian baladi with Hossam and Serena Ramzy. The workshop was very interesting as it was not so much about the movements, although Serena explained some shimming technique, but mainly about the culture that generated the Egyptian baladi style.br /br /What was interesting was especially the fact that Hossam Ramzy broke down for us the structure of a baladi piece. He explained how it starts slowly with a taqsim, to then develop towards a question and answer part between the drummer and the other musicians, thus alternating melody and rhythm. The a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/Music/"rhythm/a then goes faster and faster, until the fallahy is played and then after the music slows down again.br /br /Understanding this structure is very useful for improvising to baladi, because the dancer will know what to expect. Hossam and Serena also gave us some tips on drum solo improvisations and rules that drummers and dancers adhere to when improvising a drum solo, in order to communicate effectively with each other. Overall the workshop was interesting and I gathered some useful information, that have changed the way I will be listening to a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/styles/Egyptian-baladi.html"baladi/a pieces from now on.br /br /br /br /------br /Now on World Belly Dance - a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/events.html"Belly dance events/a and a href="http://www.worldbellydance.com/guides/"Dancing guides/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/29399419-7673035302878930173?l=www.worldbellydancer.org' alt='' //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BellyDanceWorld/~4/Y8fVjtW4Rlc" height="1" width="1"/ More...