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| Mr Tulip, in djellaba and shesh |
It's my dance class Christmas party this week, and I'm performing a piece I choreographed some years ago as homework, but have never actually danced for the class. It's also an excuse to wear my Golden Era costume again, so I needed to make sure that it still fits. Then, when I was looking at a YouTube clip of Samia Gamal dancing with Farid el Atrache, I noticed that he was wearing a striped galabeya, and had An Idea. A very silly idea indeed, involving clothing from a completely different country, but one I just had to try out.
So here is. Exhibit A: a still from the film clip. Unfortunately I don't know what the film is called (anyone out there who can read Arabic?). And apologies for the poor picture quality.
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| Farid el Atrache and Samia Gamal |
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| The film details, taken from YouTube |
Exhibit B: Mr Tulip and me, in a very vague approximation of the pose!
Looking very chic.. Or do i mean shesh?
ReplyDeleteLove the pose. Mr looks suitably stern and manly for a melodrama, even in peudo-Arabic. And you look like a veery beeoootiful maiden.
Ps love your dress. What is it?
ReplyDeleteThanks Lyndle!
ReplyDeleteThe dress is based on belly dance costumes from what is known as the Golden Era; the period of the late 1940s and 1950s when Egyptian cinema was at its height, and made lots of films featuring the best-known dancers of the time, such as Samia Gamal and Tahia Carioca.