Dancer 265 1

In this painting I painted Egyption belly dancer who was part of San Francisco Ethnic dance festival. Painting medium is oil paints. Here I enhanced... more

by Mawra Tahreem

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$3,000

Dimensions

18.000 x 24.000 x 2.000 inches

Title

Dancer 265 1

Artist

Mawra Tahreem

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

In this painting I painted Egyption belly dancer who was part of San Francisco Ethnic dance festival. Painting medium is oil paints. Here I enhanced the detail of her dress.The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival embodies what is best about living in the culturally rich Bay Area. Each year, its programs present extraordinary dance and music from over 100 world cultures and include many rare opportunities to experience cultural traditions that inspire and educate. The artists may live in northern California, but the dance traditions they showcase as part of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival come from all over the world. From Appalachian clogging to Egyptian cabaret and Eastern Indian Odissi to Brazilian capoeira, the participating artists become ambassadors sharing their traditional cultures one step at a time. As noted in the festival�s annual program book, the festival is about � . . . continuing a dialogue about the very essence of being human, and the diverse ways that people move together in rhythm towards a common experience of community.� Many people say that the San Francisco Bay area has such a strong ethnic dance community due to the work of World Arts West and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A really important part of the festival�s work is that most of the dancers who are sustaining companies, are going back and forth to home countries, relearning dances, and bringing them here. So there's this network of thousands of cultural ambassadors going back and forth across the world, keeping these traditions alive. Once they come here to America, there's lots of innovation that is transforming those traditional practices into new works, a lot of fusion. One great example is a dance piece created by a Bharatanatyam classical Indian dance company, Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, together with a Taiko Japanese company San Jose Taiko. Many people in the audience didn't realize it was two distinct cultural traditions, the choreography was so seamless and so well-integrated, keeping the authenticity of the elements and yet totally new. Many of the dancers were younger. It is the connection to their cultural roots that they value really deeply but they want it to be new and interesting.

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June 17th, 2016