SERPENT OF THE NILE Women and Dance in the Arab world
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2010
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نبذة الناشر:I think it is the most eloquent of female dances, with its haunting lyricism, its fire its endlessly shifting kaleidoscope of sensual movement.
With these words Wendy Buonaventura explains her own fascination with Arabic dance. Her book is a unique celebration of the female dancers of the Arab world, and their ...impact on the West. She explains the origins of this ancient art, which has survived in the face of commercialism, religious disapproval and changing times.
Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she shows how Arabic dance came to be influenced by western idas about art and entertainment. But the influence was two-way. In the heyday of Orientalism, Arabic dance exerted a powerful influence on the western imagination-on writers such as flaubert, artists such as david roberts and jean-leon Gerome, and imitators such as colette and mata Hari. Their fascination was often based on common fantasies about the women of the middle East. Yet as the book's magnificent illustratrations show, this obsession also produced wonderfully evocative images. At the turn of the century, the genre also had an impact on fashion, theatre and popular entertainment.
Wendy buonaventura is an Anglo-Italian writer and dancer who has pioneered the development of Arabic dance as a theatre art in the west. Her first book on Oriental dance was published in london in 1983. She has toured widely throughout Europe and the Middle East, teaching and performing in festivals.نبذة المؤلف:Serpent of the Nile traces the origins of Arabic dance, which survived despite religious disapproval and growing commercialism to evolve into a popular dance form across the globe. Focusing on the nineteenth century onwards, Wendy Buonaventura reveals how this ancient art was influenced by Western ideas about art and entertainment, and in turn exerted a powerful hold on the Western imagination.
In the heyday of Orientalism, it inspired writers and artists such as Flaubert, Jean-Léon Gerôme and Mata Hari. Often based on common fantasies of the women of the Middle East, this obsession
nevertheless produced wonderfully evocative images.
Buonaventura also documents the impact the genre had on fashion, theatre and film at the turn of the century, and explores present and future trends in Arabic dance. إقرأ المزيد