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What is Folklore with Sheyla

Yallah Raqs - November 04, 2023 05:20 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Sheyla is a dancer from the Czech Republic who fell in love with Egypt and especially the folklore of the country. Funoon Shaabeya, her latest documentary film focuses on Egyptian traditional artists and folklore, which she’ll be discussing with us today She’ll explore the significance of folkl...

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What is Tarab with Zara Dance

Yallah Raqs - November 04, 2023 05:10 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today? Zara Dance joins us to talk about the concept of Tarab. These are some of my favorite words. Words that simply don’t have a translation in other languages. Every language has a word or phrase or saying that just doesn’t have a direct translation. And while that’s beautiful, it can also ...

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Arabic Music & Poetry with Francesc

Yallah Raqs - November 04, 2023 05:09 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today Francesca is going to take us on a little journey, using a song. Francesca has her degree in Oriental Languages and Literature for Arabic, and is using her knowledge to bring us how Arabic poetry has had, and continues to have a lasting influence on the lyrics of modern arabic songs. Kno...

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Burning Questions with Dawn Devine

Yallah Raqs - October 29, 2023 18:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have Dawn Devine with and awesome Q &A .  Dawn is a costumer and historian well known for some of her books, including The Cloth of Egypt, All about Assuit,  and Zills, Music on your Fingertips.  If you’ve followed Dawn for a while you may be part of her group on Facebook, which she p...

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Warming Up & Cooling Down with The Dance Safe Project

Yallah Raqs - October 29, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have Melbourne, Australian based creator of The Dance Safe Project, Prue, joining us to chat all about warmups and cooldowns. Sometimes the practices that will keep us dancing the longest are the easiest to implement, and the easiest to skip when you’re on a tight schedule. Prue goes ...

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Creating Practice with Lisa-Jean

Yallah Raqs - October 28, 2023 17:44 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have Lisa-Jean here to talk to us about creating a practice. A busy mom of three, Lisa-Jean realized that very few dancers actually TEACH us how to practice, or how to fit time into our busy schedules to dance.  And I’m so on board, it’s one of the reasons we’ve created so many of the...

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The Bold Bellydancer Shift with April Rose

Yallah Raqs - October 25, 2023 05:06 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
April Rose will be sharing a portion of her Bold Bellydancer Shift Workshop.   If you haven’t followed her before April is an Austin-based interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and performer of bellydance, transcultural dance, frame drum, and finger cymbals. She’s absolutely wonderful and her app...

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Believing in your Business with Oreet

Yallah Raqs - October 22, 2023 23:15 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today is a MUST listen if you have any kind of bellydance business. And like our guest says, if you’re getting paid at all? Then you have a business And she couldn’t be more right Join Oreet for a fantastic episode where you are going to be taking some SERIOUS action steps. Oreet is the creator ...

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Disability Basics with Minda Mae

Yallah Raqs - October 21, 2023 21:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have Minda Mae joining us from Minneapolis! She is the founder of the DisabiliTease Academy, the first virtual school specifically geared towards performers with disabilites and their allies. She’s also the first wheelchair-using burlesque performer in Minnesota. Through her work she h...

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Multi-Tonal Zills with Drake

Yallah Raqs - October 21, 2023 09:34 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today you’ll be spending some time with Drake, an interdisciplinary bellydance researcher and performer based in the Chicago area. He joins us today to chat a little bit about Multi tonal cymbals and how to integrate them into your dance. He’ll go over what Multi-tonal playing is, how to play z...

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Embodied movement with Rahel

Yallah Raqs - October 20, 2023 17:17 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
While Rahel specializes in Raqs Sharqi, Today she’ll be joining us to talk about her work in trauma-informed, mindfulness-based somatic practices and how she’s brought that to the table to support both dancers and non-dancers alike And she has so much great info to share. She’ll go through wha...

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All or Nothing Thinking with Siobhan Camille

Yallah Raqs - October 19, 2023 08:51 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have the founder of Greenstone Dance Arts, Siobhan Camille.  If you’ve heard her on the podcast before, or you follow her you’ll already know, but for anyone just meeting Siobhan for the first time, she’s got an extensive background in exercise science with postgrad degrees in both Exe...

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Emotion & Theatricality with Sahira

Yallah Raqs - October 18, 2023 07:35 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have Sahira here to chat all about adding emotion and some theatricality to your dance. Sahira is a dancer in Houston who teaches both locally and has a fantastic online dance school. She’s known for her finger cymbals, her fantastic personality, and of course for being able to absolut...

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Connection through Live Music with Athena Howe and Adam Rivière

Yallah Raqs - October 17, 2023 16:58 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we have the wonderful Athena Howe and Adam Rivière to chat allllll about live music with ya’ll! Athena is a Columbus, Ohio-based dancer who just like many of us, fell in love with the costuming and glamour of belly dance, and then fell head over heals for the music and culture. Especially...

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Indian Fusion Dance with Debapriya Das

Yallah Raqs - October 15, 2023 06:38 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Today we welcome Debpariya Das to the podcast. Joining us from Bangalore, India, she’s here to share a little bit about her journey as an Oriental Bellydancer and her philosophies around fusing Indian Dance and Bellydance together.    She’ll share with us her views on how culture plays into th...

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Pilates & Dance with Ashley Rhianne

Yallah Raqs - October 13, 2023 08:55 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Welcome to this mini-episode of Yallah Raqs! Today Ashley Rhianne is going to tell us a bit about her journey to becoming a dancer and a pilates instructor.    She’ll be sharing what set her on her path, the benefits she’s seen in her own dance through the addition of cross-training in pilates...

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2023 Bundle Season Intro

Yallah Raqs - October 13, 2023 08:18 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
This season is gonna be a bit different, so here's a little into to this Bundle Season!

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Episode #9 - George Randolph - Creating Opportunities

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:27 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
By creating his own opportunites and opening doors and opportunites for others, George Randolph has carved a winding transformational journey in dance through musical theatre and beyond.

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Episode #8 - Mike Prosserman - Unity Through Hip Hop

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:23 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
How a multi-faceted cultural art form and its dance expression can impact the mental health of communities.

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Episode #7 - Vivine Scarlett - Truth, Wisdom & Equity

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Dance spirituality, community and social change. Creating opportunities for dance artists of African descent.

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Episode #6 - Jaicyea Smith - Lifting Up Community

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:16 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A dance artist with many community outreach initiatives.

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Episode #4 - Meher Malik - Divine Feminine & Community Awareness

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:16 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Meher Malik is a visionary always looking to the bigger picture, acknowledging the impact of Women's Rituals and how to uplift community through her dance.

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Episode # 5 - Mervat Bahlawan - Breaking Limitations From Syria to Dubai

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
An independent spirit who has carved her own path for dance.

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Episode #2 - Francesca Anastasi - Bellydance and Domestic Abuse

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Francesca Anastasi discusses how important and effective the 10 year event called Shimmy Mob involving thousands of dancers all over the world has been in preventing Domestic Abuse.

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Episode #3 - Matthew "Snoopy" Cuff - Voguing Passion Leads to Mainstage

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 20:12 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Matthew "Snoopy" Cuff discusses his love and passion for the dance art of Voguing. He wants to share with world the same joy it has given him by taking it to mainstages in dance.

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Episode #1 - Yasmina Ramzy - Inspiration Behind Deeper Dance

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 13, 2023 19:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
By creating his own opportunites and opening doors and opportunites for others, George Randolph has carved a winding transformational journey in dance through musical theatre and beyond.

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Deeper Dance Introduction

Deeper Dance Podcast - March 11, 2023 01:07 - 59 seconds ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Announcing the new podcast launch Sept 17, 2020. Hosted by Yasmina Ramzy, Deeper Dance Podcast discusses a wide range of world dance arts with emphasis on affecting socio-political change, community outreach and searching for the meaning of existence.

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What’s It Like to Travel as a Black Bellydancer?

Yallah Raqs - February 23, 2022 19:58 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Ebony and Tiffany sit down with brilliant dancers Raqs Razi, Lara Adrienne, Donna Mejia, Lotus Niraja and Nefertiti for an inspiring conversation about, and celebration of, their opportunities, learnings and stories of travel as Black artists.   Enjoy musings on favorite travel destinations a...

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Is Bellydance Different on Black Bodies?

Yallah Raqs - February 14, 2022 20:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Ebony and Tiffany get together with incredible dancers Sadira LadyLiquid, Chudney, Nefertiti and Omoladun for a chat about what’s different about being Black in the bellydance world.   They muse about Black hair, being one of the only Black dancers in classes and competitions and finally havi...

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Who is That Beautiful Black Dancer?

Yallah Raqs - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratings
Ebony and Tiffany sit down with brilliant dancers Danielle Hutton, Lara Adriene, Raqs Razi, Nefertiti and Iona for a lively conversation about, and CELEBRATION of, seeing ourselves, Black dancers, in the spotlight. Listen in as they relate about their first time seeing a pro Black bellydancer an...

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