- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (48 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Dance instructor Tamalyn Dallal's latest ethnographic program aimed at students of dance and culture travels to Ethiopia to document native costumes, customs, and dances. While teaching Middle Eastern dance at a circus school in the city-state of Addis Ababa, Dallal films their routines. Using simple props such as balls, hats, and ropes, the students defy gravity in solo and double configurations. Dallal also visits the Hager Fikir Theatre Dance Company, whose dancers perform pieces representing nine different regions, including the northeastern desert area of Afar, home to the world's highest temperatures (the performance here features intimidating props such as long knives and automatic weapons). The traditional accompanying music incorporates flute, drums, and stringed instruments such as the lyre-like krar. From Addis Ababa, Dallal heads north to Tigrinya, a pilgrimage destination, and west to Harar, where the elaborate preparations for Easter (Fasika) are in progress. In the former capital city of Gonder, she observes an Amharic dance in which participants imitate ecstatic chickens with rapid head, neck, and chest movements. Most of the people Dallal encounters are Christian or Muslim, except in Gonder where she stops at the Beta Israel village of Wolleka. -- notes, Tamalyn Dallal's website.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Filmed dance.
- Filmed performances.
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Note
- In loving memory of Richard K. Harris.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
- Credits (note)
- Edited by George Achi ; background music by the Hager Fikir Musical Group ; Tamalyn's dance music, Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar (Scheherezade L'Andalous, from Made in Zanzibar and Afkari, from 40 Days and 1001 Nights, Bellydance Music for Tamalyn Dallal).
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 5092
- OCLC
- 911270391
- Title
Ethiopia Dances for Joy! / filmed, produced and directed by Tamalyn Dallal.
- Production
2013.
- Country of Producing Entity
Ethiopia.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file streaming H.264
- Access
Patrons can access this streaming video file online.
- Event
Videotaped during a visit to Ethiopia, Africa, 2013.
- Credits
Edited by George Achi ; background music by the Hager Fikir Musical Group ; Tamalyn's dance music, Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club of Zanzibar (Scheherezade L'Andalous, from Made in Zanzibar and Afkari, from 40 Days and 1001 Nights, Bellydance Music for Tamalyn Dallal).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Dallal, speaker.
Dallal, filmmaker.
Dallal, producer.
Dallal, director.
Achi, George, editor.
Hager Fikir Theater Dance Company, performer.
Hager Fikir Theater Dance Company, composer.
Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club, composer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 5092