Oriental Dance on the Nile with Sahra C. Kent

Dahabeya Nilecruise with Sahra C. Kent

from october 22nd to 29th 2015

full immersion egyptian oriental dance classes with live music

Thursday 10/22/2015

arrive in Luxor, transfer to the hotel, dinner (depending on your arrival time), overnight stay in our hotel in Luxor

Friday 10/23/2015

after breakfast transfer to Esna, check-in on the dahabeya, lunch, 3 hrs dance class with Sahra (with live music), dinner, overnight stay on board

Saturday 10/23/2015

breakfast, visit to Horus temple in Edfu, after lunch 3 hrs dance class with Sahra (with live music), dinner while cruising to Kom Ombo, overnight stay on board near the island El Hegz

Sunday 10/25/2015

breakfast, visit to Sobek temple in Kom Ombo, after lunch 3 hrs dance class with Sahra (with live music), dinner while cruising to Aswan, overnight stay on board

Monday 10/26/2015

breakfast, 2 hrs dance class nubian style with Sahra (with live music), after lunch check-out from the dahabeya and transfer to our hotel in Aswan, motorboat-trip at sunset on the Nile, dinner

Tuesday 10/27/2015

breakfast, visit to Philae temple in Aswan, to the dam and the obelisk, in the afternoon 2 hrs dance class nubian style with Mohamed, dinner

Wednesday 10/28/2015

breakfast, transfer to Luxor, afternoon free time for you, dinner, closing party

Thursday 10/29/2015

check-out and transfer to the airport

on the dahabeya: full board (breakfast, lunch, dinner, soft drinks, tea and water included)

in the hotel: half board (breakfast with nescafé, tea and juice included, dinner – drinks at dinner are at extra charge)

price per person:

950 € (1.230 USD) EARLYBIRD (subscription until 1^st July 2015)

1.150 € (1.460 USD) subscription after 1^st July 2015

the package mentioned above includes:

3 nights in a shared twin room on the dahabeya with all inclusive soft, 2 nights in a shared twin room in a hotel in Luxor with half board, 2 nights in a shared twin room in a hotel in Aswan with half board, 13 hrs dance classes with live music, hafla with live music on board of the ship, closing party in Luxor with live music, visit to Horus, Sobek and Philae temple, visit to the dam and the obelisk, motorboat trip on the Nile in Aswan, transfers (hotel-airport-hotel, Luxor-Esna, Aswan-Luxor)

NOT included are:

flight to and from Luxor, entry visa to Egypt, drinks at dinner in the hotels, tips for hotel and dahabeya staff, tips for musicians/dancers, single room (extra charge 50 € / 65 USD for 4 nights) – N.B.: no single rooms available on the dahabeya!!

for informations about making the deposit to register by PayPal or international bank transfer, please contact: Simone Gerstgrasser - Italy, email: layalisharqia@gmail.com

Payment:

EARLYBIRD for subscription until 1^st July 2015

deposit: to register to the event and to make a confirmed reservation of your room, a deposit of 700 € (900 USD) is required

balance of 250 € (330 USD) to be paid cash in Luxor

for subscription after 1^st July 2015

deposit: to register to the event and to make a confirmed reservation of your room, a deposit of 700 € (900 USD) is required

balance of 450 € (560USD) to be paid cash in Luxor

Refund:

until 1^st september 2015: full refund of deposit will be given

until 22^nd september 2015: 50 % refund of deposit will be given

after 22^nd september 2015: no refund of deposit

Shaabi

This new trend in oriental dance all over the world.... even if it's not "new" in Egypt at all.
Shaabi music is a progression/development of baladi music. Already there we find a fusion of traditional arabic instruments with european instruments, brought inside Egypt by the foreign visitors (British for example). Typical for baladi music are accordeon and saxofon, maybe sometimes you'll find even trumpet. As these instruments obviousely had a western setting, which uses major and minor scales, egyptian musicians had difficulties expressing themselves and their music on them, as arabic music is a complex system of maqamat which includes also quarter tones. Over the years these instruments were "converted" to the maqamat-system.
New music and art of expression was born - baladi - urban style - western-arabic music fusion.

As mentioned above, shaabi music is a further development of baladi and was kind of "modern pop music" in Egypt in the 1970. It's first and most popular representative is Ahmed Adaweya. Some of his famous songs you will know are "Salameta Um Hassan" or "Bint El Sultan" for example.
Shaabi was - and still is - means of communication for egyptian people, raising their voices above political matters, daily live, frustration, love.....

 Other well known shaabi singer are Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Saad Soghayar or Mahmoud El Lithy.

Shaabi, typical Cairo neighborhood music AND dance. Egyptians love to celebrate and making party, they celebrate outside the houses, on the street, between one neighborhood and the other. They put on a stage with lots of colorful little lights, take some seats out, bring some tea and.... go with the music.... LOUD music... yallaaaaaa!
If there's a wedding or a moulid - doesn't matter - every occasion is welcome, to celebrate and to forget hardness of live for one evening.

Shaabi is danced by both - men and women. Depending on the traditions, maybe men and women in separate places or if it's close family circle, maybe all together. Doesn't matter... the most important thing is having fun and enjoying themselves. Shaabi is a simple, genuine dance, expressing happiness and joy - no particular tecnique necessary - have fun and keep going yay!

After revolution in Egypt, shaabi - music AND dance - changed. As it is an urban style popular dance, it is closely connected with every change of politics, way of live, economics, peoples satisfaction of their lives and so on.
Now "electric-shaabi" - mahraganat - is born in the poor popular neighborhoods of Cairo. Speaking as usual about politics, of being tired of the revolution, of banalities of daily live, about sex and love.
If before in shaabi music we found musicians playing, now most of the times, the musicians have been replaced by electric keyboards and computers and even during wedding parties often instead of the music band you'll find a DJ.

And here some videos of shaabi dancing in Egypt. As sayed, it's a popular dance directly from the streets in Cairo - so, it's little bit strange putting it on a stage. But as it's "modern" now in western dance world, everybody wants to copy it. In my eyes, also when putting a dance on a stage, the most important thing is to respect its origins, its genuine character and its soul - which is the most difficult of the dancers part.

 

Tarab

questo sconosciuto.....

la nuova "moda" di proporre stage di tarab?!? mah.... 
tarab è quell'estasi, quell'elevazione della mente, del cuore, dell'anima e dello spirito che prova, chi suona, balla, ascolta la musica - preferibilmente araba.
La Dea del tarab - Om Kolthoum. Ascoltando la sua voce, lei, che era capace di esplorare i maqam in ogni loro singola nota, facendo con la sua voce quello che solitamente i musicista fanno con i loro strumenti.
Loro, entrando in sultana mentre suonano, creano la base per far nascere tarab.
Questa emozione che ti travolge come un'onda....

E' difficile da spiegare, ma non da provare e non c'è modo migliore per provare tarab sulla vostra pelle se non in Egitto, ascoltando la musica dal vivo, ballando con la musica dal vivo.
Provata a fare questa esperienza in una vacanza studio unica nel suo genere... in piccolo gruppo, in diretto contatto con i maestri danza e con i musicisti.

 

 

Eshta!!! cosa vi aspetta??

Il pacchetto "Eshta!!!" comprende  

• soggiorno di 7 notti con mezza pensione in stanza a due letti
• 10 ore di lezioni di danza 
• accompagnamento musica dal vivo con la nostra orchestra 
• 2 serate con hafla con musica dal vivo (e possibilità di esibirsi insieme alla nostra orchestra)  
• 2 escursioni guidate (valle dei Re / tombe dei lavoratori e dei nobili 
• guida, biglietti di entrata e transfer per le due escursioni
• transfer aereoporto Luxor-hotel-aereoporto Luxor

costo pacchetto a persona: 690 €
quota accompagnatori senza lezioni di danza: 500 € in stanza condivisa (volo extra)  


NON sono compresi nel prezzo sumenzionato:  

• volo Italia-Luxor andata e ritorno 
• visto (ca. 18 €) 
• le bibite (sono inclusi nescaffè, tè e succo a colazione) 
• altre escursioni non indicate nel pacchetto sopra 
• eventuale guida turistica per visite extra 
• mance per staff hotel, musicisti, ballerini, guida (ca. 50 € a partecipante) 
• altre spese personali 
• supplemento stanza singola (50 € a settimana)  

Partenza: 9-15 novembre 2014

YAY! only one month left for leaving to Egypt!! 
Happy to see my friends again, happy to have lots of time to improve my dancing.
THIS will be awesome again - as always!
Dance classes every day - live music ..... oh my gauche! if you ever had the possibility to be in Egypt and listening (and dancing) to live music. You will know you get goosebumps .... tarab tarab tarab.... I LOVE this feeling!
Want to feel it to? come and try it out!
Dance holiday starts on 9th november!!! :-)
We are waiting for you!!