BABA• YAGA• MUSIC

Baba Yaga Music

• Arabic Music
• Cajun Music
• Irish Music
• Klezmer Music
• Makams and Cents: Eastern Music Tone Production
• Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Dance rhythms
• Middle Eastern and Mediterranean play lists and sheet music
• Nine-Eight Dance Rhythms and Music
• Old Time American Fiddle Music
• Romanian / Transylvanian Music
• Turkish Music
• Zills and Sagat, Use and Maintenance

Dance Costume Tutorials

• Circle Skirts: How-to for the fastest circle skirt: fold and cut.
• Choosing Colors for Dance Costumes: tailor the color to the music and to the venue.
• Costume Design for Dance Troupes: know your message, deliver your message, take care of your dancers.
• Costume Patterns using Geometric Shapes
• Making Harem Pants and Pantaloons
• Make a Shrug
• Overskirts: Overskirts add color and texture and protect expensive costume pieces.
• Tassel Belt Pattern

Encyclopedic Dictionary

• American Tribal, born in America and danced everywhere.
• Belly Dance: many kinds, many stories, much history, lots of costuming!
• Ghawazee Dance, Music and Costuming
• Jamila Salimpour, circus performer, belly dancer, and the mother of American Tribal dance.
• La Meri, American Ethnic Dancer: the world was her stage during the Twentieth century.
• Mata Hari, Extraordinary Beauty and Fatal Choices
• Melaya Leff: vivacious and flirty. Look but don't touch!
• Orientalism: has Has Mata Hari left the building Yet?
• Shamadan and Candle Dancing: dancing with fire safely and effectively.
• Sol Bloom: the Chicago World's Fair was just a short chapter in an extraordinary life.
• Ted Shawn: Father of American Modern Dance

Bollywood Louisville

• Bharata Natyam, a Classical Indian Dance Art.
• Bollywood: precision, energy and beauty.
• Kathak, the visible expression of rhythm.
• Devadasis, servants of God and women of power.
• The Third Sex: the dilemma of the Hijras, despised but auspicious.

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