Tribal Thursday – Excerpt taken from The Tribal Bible. The next step towards today’s interpretation of American Tribal Style Belly Dance came from one of Jamila Salimpour’s students, Masha Archer. Sychronized group improvisational choreograph in the belly dance world began its development by default in San Francisco, California, in the 1970’s when Masha Archer left… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – Excerpt taken from The Tribal Bible. The credit for naming this style of Jamila’s as California Tribal or American Tribal should go to Morocco of New York. Morocco felt it was an apt name for this new style that was uniquely American in its fusionary approach, since it did not accurately represent… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – Excerpt taken from The Tribal Bible. Building from last week on the introduction of Jamila Salampour and BalAnat. It is important to keep in context the fact that during this time the world and especially SanFrancisco, was on the cutting edge of experimentation, undergoing a modern renaissance if you will. It was… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – Excerpt taken from The Tribal Bible. The root of tribal belly dance began in the late 1960’s in the SanFrancisco Bay area of California. Jamila Salimpour is credited for beginning this eclectic fusion approach to MidEastern dance in her presentations at the Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire with her seminal group Bal… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – Excerpt from The Tribal Bible on the origins of Tribal belly dance. The root of this dance began in the late 1960’s in the SanFrancisco Bay Area of California. Jamila Salimpour is credited for beginning this eclectic fusion approach to Mid Eastern dance in her presentations at the Northern California Renaissance Pleasure… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – Last week we defined Ethnic and Folkloric according to The Tribal Bible. This week we continue with Theatricalized Folkloric and the term Tribal. Be sure to check out the video of the Reda Troupe from the 60’s at the end of the post! Theatricalized Folkloric – refers to modern versions of folkloric… Read more »

Tribal Thursday – I am currently reading The Tribal Bible by Kajira Djoumahna. For our Thursday Tribal fact I am hoping to systematically list a fact each week from something I read in the book until I am through the book. At the very beginning of the book before it gets into history it lists… Read more »