NADRA ASSAF: History and Anthropology of Dance in the Arab World | Sarde (after dinner) Podcast #81

[@sardeafterdinner]

Welcome to Sarde guys! Please like this video to please the Algorithm Gods! It would makes a HUGE difference for us :) Here are the Timestamps: [00:00] What is Oriental Dance? [5:13] The history and influences of oriental dance [9:41] Why don’t we have dances for couples in Lebanon? [15:33] How a dance is created and becomes a tradition [18:15] The evolution from ballet to contemporary dance [23:42] Why oriental dancing began in Harems [25:23] Women reclaiming oriental and pole dancing [29:11] How trauma drives us appreciate our culture & return to it [31:18] Lebanese weddings never lost the “Zaffeh” [35:14] Why Rugby & Basketball players take ballet classes [37:08] The relationship between dance, body types, and gender [50:47] The struggles of dancers in Lebanon and the Arab World [1:02:44] The oriental dance competition “Hezzi ya nawa’em” [1:07:22] Beyond the body: Storytelling in Dance [1:16:21] The rahabneh’s contribution to music, art and dance [1:20:53] The hope of dance in Lebanon [1:25:57] What is dance therapy? [1:28:24] Does everyone have rhythm [1:33:57] “I don’t ever believe in giving up”

[@basmallamohamed2523]

5:17 the Egyptian oriental dance, we know that it originated in Egypt "ancient Egypt" ، over 6000 years ago and developed there through centuries there

[@ashleyeljor7931]

Talent, passion, and a pure soul that taught me so much, and not just about dance! Dr. Nadra Assaf has touched so many lives and continues to do so ❤️

[@pgf2785]

Thank you Medea and Mouin for your weekly program, we find it close to our hearts, as we watch you from across the ocean! Your programs are great therapeutic sessions we enjoy at Sunday afternoon. Although, we watch them more than once. Kind regards from 🇨🇦

[@lynnalkhalili3503]

Oh guys! This is absolutely the most beautiful sarde you’ve ever done… ever!! Thank you really for all that you do! 🙏🏼

[@hatemhaidar4086]

Beautiful episode. Loved the energy of Nadra. I listened to the podcast, and walked home to see my wife watching on youtube randomly. Keep up the great work.

[@MariaEatWorld]

So so so interesting! Thank you for this sarde!

[@shouqal-alawi2867]

سردة ممتعة جداً، جميلة شخصيتها الدكتورة ونتمنى تأسيس مدارس للفنون الأدائية والمسرح الغنائي في الدول العربية

[@joesahih1632]

An amazing sarde with an even more amazing person. Truly inspirational. Thank you! ❤

[@roubakhayata4361]

Thank you for this episode ! I can listen to it over and over again..chapeau bas for you and your guest.

[@nedjma3863]

As Always, it's Amazing, i learned a lot, thannnnk you soooo much, culture and arts are our salvation

[@joumanasaikali9377]

Excellent video and podcast, great guest. Bravo.

[@Abailoca]

Im still watching the video but had to comment on how amazing this is! The ambiance, the subjects, the amount of knowledge being shared and the merge of the languages happening… Bravo!

[@youssofghemrawi3004]

Thank you for the amazing episode ! also thank you for bringing up such an important topic.

[@bettypapazian5940]

One of the best episodes

[@SFranny]

Enjoyed this SO much! The editing and music placement was supreme and so funny. Love love love

[@JoeBouzeid]

Eunuch...Varys! loooool Thank you for another good episode.

[@cyyll]

On minute 2 and already fascinated. ♥️

[@tarifasalem]

Thank you so much for this incredible discussion with this incredibly knowledgeable educator. This was one of the most refreshing discussions on the history and anthropology of Middle Eastern dance and more!

[@uonesmofek]

شكراً لكم على هذه الحلقة الرائعة، نحن بحاجة لتدوين في مجال الرقص الشرقي لانه جزء اصيل من تراثنا.

[@MK-pz5gf]

جيبها

[@chrisofmelbourne87]

Yes 100%!

[@AreejMalaeb]

Yay, can’t believe I’m the first one waiting and ‘liking’ the video! Hi Médéa and Mouin! Your weekly videos are my virtual mini-trip to Lebanon! Haha (Watching from Pittsburgh PA). 😊

[@sardeafterdinner]

Hello from Beirut! That's the best compliment! You're awesome ♥

[@AreejMalaeb]

🎊❤️🎊

[@normamatar412]

Watching from Boston

[@lazona1705]

Thank you so much for this amazing interview!

[@tribalmaker]

What a wonderful talk! Thank you 🙏

[@Adam_mohammed_]

Love this episode so much!

[@kikiandmatthewfun8075]

This sarde should be taught! Amazing!

[@roulaserhal6693]

Thank you so much! I learned a lot. Very inspiring !

[@ghidaarkadan4168]

Not me thinking about starting a belly dancing club and then this popped up 🥲🥹amazing and necessary episode! Bravo 🙌

[@Alahamamra]

What a legend this woman is! Nadra Assaf!!!

[@charbelelkhoury4844]

Have you noticed how cute is Médéa every time she s not sure about a word in English? She looks at Mouin and shakes her head to be assured?? ❤️

[@yacinebenabdelaziz5181]

Great to have miss Nadra Assaf. Great explanation and narration ♥ much love and support from Algeria.

[@rosapoladian8105]

Love this episode. Watching it for 3rd time.

[@pgf2785]

I saw male teachers are specialized in teaching "Belly Dancing" to professional performers! Belly dancing is a great exercise for everyone no exceptions.

[@marwahsultan1174]

في الحضارة المصرية القديمة كانوا يرقصون في كل المناسبات ولسه سامعة عن كتاب الإمبريالية والهشك بشك لشذى يحيى

[@bethmendezarts4230]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@fosterapamela]

This was so fascinating! I took a "belly dance" class through my local recreation centre in Canada in my 30s and fell in love with the art form, following the teacher to various locations for several years. It was one the best things I ever did for bringing me in touch with my body and my femininity and I wish I had discovered it when I was younger. The biggest compliment my teacher ever gave me was tell me that I was a 'natural'. She met and fell in love with an Egyptian immigrant, who unfortunately quashed her art once they were married, even though he'd been supportive before. It's still so much a part of me that whenever I dance I still do my 'snake' arms, my 'shimmies' and 'snake' hips. My hips don't lie.

[@fosterapamela]

I forgot to mention that one of the best dancers and teachers in my city was a young Indonesian fellow. Boy, could he move those hips!

[@marwahsultan1174]

الرقص البلدي في رقص زوجين راجل وست مع بعض غير الرقص الجماعي ❤ شكرا على الحلقة🎉

[@baydaalaylaa3368]

What a beautiful enriching interview 🌼

[@cyrineh5602]

LOVED THIS ONE

[@aou6499]

An interview that sets a milestone in my beliefs about Life: the first time life came from some chemicals who encountered sunrays, the first time cells met each other to create organized entities, the first time bees discovered the nectar to create honey but mainly to transmit life, ... the first time a chap danced around a lady to show his interest... the language always used is dance... it translated into life, beatiful life...

[@mazra3animaria245]

ما فهمت شو مشكلتها بالعربي .. يا ريت توضحوا بس حتى ما كون عم طلع احكام مسبقة الموضوع مهم بالنسبة الي لهيك بزعل ما يكون الحوار بالعربي ..

[@OxanaSyroks8371]

Какое прекрасное интервью. Спасибо большое. Мне очень отзывается все сказанное

[@hibashreky6024]

It would be super interesting if you have raya abi rashed as a guest next time guys

[@jumamajumana4141]

كانت في لجنة استوديو الفن سيمون اسمر ....ليه نسيت العربي؟؟؟

[@TamerAziz]

A very wonderful dialogue, but what about the pure line of the type of physical movement throughout history about the shaking of the chest, which refers to the Levant, and the shaking of the waist, which refers to North Africa, especially the beginnings in the western side of Egypt.!

[@mohemad2383]

مقابلة مع شخصية لطيفة. كل الحب و الاحترام. بتمنى لو تقدرو تستضيفوا أحمد مكي

[@chrisofmelbourne87]

This is fascinating. Wow!

[@Marusya514]

In Russia we know and love oriental culture and dance ! Along with the fact that we kept our Russian folk dance and culture! In Soviet time we had festivals and big events with folklore musik, song and dance!

[@saratakkoush6109]

Ohh copyright issues probably on youtube made this not have the music audio at the end... But the podcast version 😂😂 i was so happy for that musical interlude

[@nellyzouein3806]

As we are « an oral »people, our popular traditions especially for dabke, must be very rich , but need to be written . As a teacher of Art , you are the right person to master researches through Art student diplomas. it could be une thèse de recherches universitaires

[@danielalbo3781]

In the west oriental really means east Asia. Even South Asia would not be seen as oriental Honestly the levant and Mesopotamia is in the centre of the world anyways, not really in most of the worlds perspective of “east” when we think of “east”

[@manod5322]

I like Medea's english accent

[@FlyingDoormat]

I want someone to look at me the way Medea looks at Mouin 🥰❤️

[@RegenmeisterMo]

Thank you

[@salhamaghrabi4309]

Wow 🤩

[@GEORGEBECHAALANY]

Jean-Claude Van Damme used to take ballet classes which gave him the ability to do his famous kicks, which made him famous, the round kick and all that...

[@hratchkaramanoukian32]

"You can't erase a culture" is an absolutely beautiful statement. I agree with this Professor. She is fantastic in the way she makes this an interesting topic, even for a surgeon ! When the Soviets told their people to be atheists, they buried their bibles and Qurans, dug them up at night, and read them more than they would ever read them.

[@souadchamaa430]

ما احلاك وشو انك نادرة يا ست نادرة

[@ferasraga11741]

بتابعكن من زمان وبتمنى لو تعملو سردة مع الصحفي السوري نضال معلوف عن آخر المستجدات السياسية بمنطقتنا العربية.

[@GEORGEBECHAALANY]

amazing

[@aichasalloum]

❤️

[@jacerkahouli8528]

Salut je vous suggère un chercheur dans la danse populaire du Nord Afrique . C'est un homme de théâtre et danseur considérablement connu en Tunisie et ailleurs . Il s'appelle Rochdi Belgacmi et une discussion avec lui pourrait générer plusieurs nouvelles réflexions sur la danse. Bon courage , vos sujets sont très pertinents .

[@breakingdown2110]

I LOVE that you tackle the taboo on sensual dances. I feel it is the result of hundreds of years of imposing shame on the human body and its natural impulses. Sex is the base of all life, right? 😄 every human being is born because of this body function.

[@lavlouv]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kenzaaznek1608]

🤩🤩🤩

[@cquirkyfish]

What are those things that they are holding? They look like erasers...

[@zackzxc1896]

Ziad Rahbany Reema Rahbany Salah Tizani Fady Reaidy Nemr Bou Nassar Fady Chamaty Amal Clooney

[@hratchkaramanoukian32]

By the way, these interviewers are fantastic. If they invite me for an interview, I will smoke a cigar while they are smoking their cigarettes ! I love their interview style. 5 star

[@mudassirnadeem636]

She’s damn knowledgeable lol

[@Lail-fo1lx]

5:57 Really Arabs had a problem neither they insulted Egyptian people for decades for their dance and now they didn't want to give people their credit

[@Houssein56]

Ra23in into w dyoufkom

[@moustafakridly9126]

Not to be negative, but this video is full of inaccurate/ incorrect definitions.

[@kareemjeiroudi1964]

I don’t think that dabkeh is exclusive to men. Most dabkehs I’ve seen in my life were performed by both men and women. There are some variants of Dabkeh though that are more stiff and aggressive, and these are mostly performed by men.

[@MohammadAAzab]

Guyssss we want Nemr the comdian in a Sarde

[@aliahmad-hr3mk]

The part about how dances are influenced by movements. Um sorry HELL NO. Al kena b3lbakyi nedbok 3a sate7 el bet. My father is 67 now and my aunts is 87 w jedi 93. Ask any of them ra7 yd7ako 3alek.and the part about funding a book... I like her bs ma 7ada ykhlya tktob kteb oo3a tktob kteb btjaresna

[@Nevermind952]

حقيقة مشكلة الفلسفة وإدعاء الفهم بشئ انت جاهل فيه!! أولا: الكعبة بالنسبة للمسلمين مالها علاقة بالوثنية على الإطلاق والاشخاص في ذلك الزمان اتبعوا الاسلام لقوة حجته ومنطقيته واعجاز القرآن ويقينهم ان هذا ليس بكلام بشر وفطرتهم السليمة وليس بسبب الكعبة. ثانيا: تاريخ الكعبة أقدم من الوثنية في مكة حيث أن ابراهيم عليه السلام وضع قواعد الكعبة في مكة قبل أن تكون مأهولة بالسكان في ذلك الوقت، لاحقا عندما اصبحت مكة مأهولة بالسكان كانت ديانتهم الوثنية وبدأو يضعون الأصنام حوالي الكعبة. بعدها اتى الرسول محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام وأمر بازالة الأصنام والكعبة اصبحت قبلة للمسلمين يتوجهون لها عند ادائهم الصلاة لله سبحانة وتعالى. وهذا هو أصل الكعبة الذي أنت جاهل فيه يافيلسوف.

[@MrGoldenAssassin1]

44:27 not sure if this lady really likes you smoking Mouain ;)

[@jumamajumana4141]

عم تحكي عن الرقص الشرقي انو معليش احكي شوية عربي

[@jamalnet]

جاية تحكي عن الدبكه و الرقص الشرقي بالانلكلزي، ما بعرف ليش بس أكيد في شي غلط هون😂

[@e4799]

They smoke!!! It doesn’t suit talking about dancing! Dancers know they must live a healthy lifestyle and train and eat healthy! If the guest doesn’t smoke, then they shouldn’t have smoked either! If she smokes, then it’s fine they can all smoke together! But this was annoying to watch!

[@Aliali-yt6iu]

the guest doesn't talk in Arabic, and she is advising Arabs what to accept and not accept culturally.

[@khalissad5407]

برنامج جداً وصخ ولا يمثل الأسلام

[@h0a98]

❤❤