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Grandmother's Secrets by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi (1999, Hardcover) 
Grandmother's Secrets by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi (1999, Hardcover)

 
Grandmother's Secrets by Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi (1999, Hardcover)

Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 156656302X
ISBN-13: 9781566563024
Product ID: EPID931596
Description: This is a personal memoir, a how-to guide, and a philosophical reflection about bellydance as an art form for women. Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi describes the secret language of bellydance choreography, explains the significance of movements f...
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Synopsis
This is a personal memoir, a how-to guide, and a philosophical reflection about bellydance as an art form for women. Rosina-Fawzia Al-Rawi describes the secret language of bellydance choreography, explains the significance of movements from head to toe, and discusses the many dances used to celebrate various stages in a woman's life, such as wedding, pregnancy and birth dances. Al-Rawi describes her own personal experience and shares her wisdom of a mystical, spiritual journey along the way.

Details
Publication Date:1999-03-01

Size
Length:158 pages
Height:9.8 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
"Come, next to me, " says Grandmother. "Take this chalk in your hand. Now draw a dot and concentrate all your energy into this one dot. It is the beginning and the end, the navel of the world." So Fawzia Al-Rawi describes her grandmother's first lesson about the ancient craft of Oriental dance. Grandmother's Secrets always circles back to this grandmother and this young girl, echoing the circular movements of the dance itself. Al-Rawi has written a strikingly graceful and original book that blends personal memoir with the history and theory of the dance known in the West as "belly dancing." It is the story of a young Arab girl as she is initiated into womanhood. It is a history of the dance from the earliest times through the days of the Pharoahs, the Roman Empire, to the Arab world of the last three centuries. It is a personal investigation into the effects of the dance's movements on individual parts of the body and the whole psyche. lt is a guide to the actual techniques of the dance for those who are inspired to put down the book and move. Al-Rawi conveys in this book not only the history and technique of grieving and mourning dances, pregnancy and birth dances but the spirit of these age-old rituals, and their possibilities for healing and empowering women today.

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