Shining Raqs Shaabi (Ghawazi) | Part 1 Okasha

Part 1: Working through the digitzed Okasha cassette, which features a mixed rebaba and mizmar ensemble, in my newly finished handmade 70's-80's style upper egyptian shaabi/ghawazi costume. It took me about 6 months to finish this costume, the only peices I didnt make was the leotard.
The dance style is typical of the Upper Egyptian professional traditional entertainers often referred to as ghawazi. Inside Egypt the style itself is called by the generic term raqs e-shaabi and the dancer/singers prefer to be called fanana/fananeen (artist/artists) (e.g. fanana e-shaabeya)
My interpretation here is based off of a little more than a year of studying and working with Khyria Mazin on location in Luxor while building an online school/resource center about her family. I am also very influenced by old videos of her and her sisters and their colleagues of the period.
If you want to listen or practice with this music it is available for members on the music streaming page of banatmazin.com, a website I created to give dancers and researchers more information and contact with Khyria Mazin and her family. 50% of website earnings are periodically sent to her.
Khyria’s social media (run by me):
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[@natashira1962]

My favourite dance!!!

[@salemdog100]

I hope you don't mind, I shared this video with my students and some of my local colleagues. LOVE the costume, you did a beautiful job! Thank you for sharing the video and for including an informative description.

[@FireflowerDancer]

The skirt is so bomb! I know it's Ghawazi, but when you spin like that it resembles tannoura, or Rajasthani. ❤'in it!!

[@nuranasser]

Amazing! Really, really a good job