Practice music for slow American Tribal Style® bellydance that Jorunn will be using these tracks in her spring classes. Jorunn have included a short bio on 4 of the artists that may not be familiar to you. Enjoy!

  1. Diversion
    By Anouar Brahem, Barbaros Erkose, Kudsi Erguner & Lassad Hosni
    Anouar Brahem is a Tunisian oud player and composer who is widely regarded as an innovator in his field. Performing for primarily a jazz audience, he fuses arabic classical music, folk music and jazz. In playing style, Anouar Brahem is often compared to Rabih Abou-Khalil, though his compositions tend to be more mellow and spare. He has collaborated throughout his career and on several albums with other musicians.
  2. Ou Est Ma Petite Danseuse?
    By Gypsy Caravan
  3. Atlantis Coastguard Corruption
    By Ugress
    Ugress is an electronic music project from Norway by musician Gisle Martens Meyer. Ugress often use small snippets (sampling) of audio from older science fiction or horror movies in their songs. The music can be related to other artists like Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Propellerheads and Röyksopp, however Ugress are known to have a “rougher” style.
  4. End of the Road
    By Magic Carpet
    Magic Carpet was an innovative Anglo-Indian so-called psychedelic prog folk fusion band, that started in the early 1970s by three musical friends, Clem Alford (sitar), Jim Moyes (guitar), and Keshav Sathe (tabla). The Magic Carpet album has been described as “a psych folk gem – a unique and extraordinary fusion of east and west, Magic Carpet being one of the very first bands to truly combine Indian and western instrumentation”.
  5. Raks Sharqi
    By World Percussion Collective
  6. Curried Ripples
    By Ganga Giri
    Ganga was born in Port Fairy, Australia, and has gained the respect of Aboriginal didgeridu (yidaki) players for his unique approach to didgeridu playing. Influenced by many varied genres, including East Indian Tabla and African percussion, he has married indigenous Australian and world music with fat tribal beats and dirty funky bass lines to create a unique tribal-technological deep earth dance experience.
  7. Feed the Muse
    By Solace
  8. Moroccan 6
    By FatChanceBellyDance

http://www.last.fm/music/Anouar+Brahem

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/GypsyCaravan

http://www.ugress.com/

http://www.last.fm/music/Magic+Carpet

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/world-percussion-collective/id99434666

http://gangagiri.com/didj-info/

http://magnatune.com/artists/solace

http://www.helmmusic.com/music-shop-2.htm

Miriam Embla from Oslo Tribal Bellydance School

As we are now halfway through our winter ´13 classes, here is a little reminder that you can still drop in to the Monday evening Tribal Fusion class with Miriam Embla at Studio Orient from 17:30-18:30.

In this class we’ll sink our teeth into a different movement every Monday and drill that mo fo until we’re rocking it like Tribal Queens!

Read more about the Tribal Fusion technique class here

Photo: Tor Ole Ree

Treat yourself with a Tribal Bellydance history lesson and check out this playlist on YouTube collected by Ashara. Vintage videos of Jamila Salimpour and Bal Anat, FatChanceBellyDance®, Urban Tribal, Gypsy Moor Dancers… The roots of ATS®, ITS and Tribal Fusion.

Miriam Embla

Miriam Embla

Greetings fellow dancers. I hope this blog post finds you well and dancing. If you need some help to get you started, you can join the new Tribal Fusion class starting this Monday. Read more about it here. It’s going to be a fun technique class with lots of drilling, ending in a short combination.

In case you need some inspiration to get you going in your at-home practice, or just for listening pleasure, you should check out our new playlists at 8tracks.com. Listen here.

Latcho Drom

Music, dance and travelling. This is a wonderful movie about gypsy travels from India in the east to Spain in the west. Latcho Drom full movie, Tony Gatlif 1993.

Practice music for slow American Tribal Style® bellydance. Jorunn will be using these tracks in her winter classes. Enjoy!

Practice music for fast American Tribal Style® bellydance. Jorunn will be using these tracks in her winter classes. Enjoy!

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Tribal Fusion class

Get your drill on! Starting January 21st, 6 weeks of fun tribal fusion drills and short combinations featuring essential technique for the fusion dancer.

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Don’t dance for the audience; dance for yourself.

Bob Fosse quote

Of all the innovative and imaginative fusion dancers that abound in the fusion belly dance scene, Asharah stands out as especially hardworking and knowledgable in many forms of belly dance.

She has shared insights into her training and artistic development on her blog, and looking back at videos of her performances, an incredible development can be seen. From a decidedly dark kind of tribal fusion through experimentation with performing to prog rock and, most recently, her dancing has been greatly influenced by her studies at Suhaila Salimpour School of Bellydance. However, what we want to know is: what is YOUR favorite online video starring Asharah? Share from youtube, vimeo, wherever, as a comment to OTBS Facebook post about Asharah. We would love to see what inspires you!

Below is a video of Asharah to get you started and if you feel compelled to dance, you can always join our brand new OTBS Basics class. See the way she combines super isolated pops and locks with smooth arm movements and undulations framed with strong arms? Those are exactly the kind of things you´ll learn which you can take with you into whatever direction you want to go with your dancing.