Egypt by Mo: Dance off

This is a quick post because I’ll let the pictures and videos do most of the talking for me. Otencia and her husband were going to attend one of the events that I missed with the school so they were kind enough to let me tag along. I had heard good things and Otencia said it was great, but didn’t know really what it was and what to expect. The location was a monastery that holds a Sufi dancing and music show every Saturday. Again like most of the things I see they don’t really come with a brochure or information, you’re kind of on your own to figure it all out, so this will be another thing I look into when I get home. My understanding is that it is a group of monks that put on a show through the cultural center to illustrate the traditional music and dancing. When you initially hear of monks dancing and singing I don’t know if you get excited but it’s not like the first choice of concert I would pick, but now I know why Otencia was so hush hush about everything because these guys could rock. It was kind of like watching a drum line or battle of the bands or something. There were about 20 performers most being musicians, a couple dancers and a singer. The performance was only an hour and a half, but it was full of energy. These guys were great and very entertaining. The dancers would just spin around, but one guy literally spun in a circle fast for about 15 to 20 minutes. They were making me dizzy but it was pretty cool what they were doing with their skirts. The pictures will show you more, but the big circles are actually cloth that they were spinning like pizza.

Note: a few more post still to come even though I will be back in the states. The connection was really slow so each of these post took about an hour to upload.