Finger Cymbals: Play Them Correctly
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Finger Cymbals: Discover how easy it is to play Finger Cymbals. This book helps raise the "barre" by educating Middle Eastern dancers and students on the playing of zills correctly. Play exactly what the body is accenting when dancing. Play exactly what the drummer is playing, live or on CD. Never get off rhythm again. You will understand the rhythms used for the belly dancer.
Morwenna Assaf
Morwenna Assaf is the Dance Director for both Art/Dance Academy and CEDAR Productions. She has been a Middle Eastern (Belly Dancer) dancer, instructor and choreographer for almost 40 years. She studied in New York City with the late Ibrahim Farrah (her mentor and friend), the foremost proponent of the dance in the world. She continues to study to this day America’s top instructor of Egyptian dance. Plus she sponsors and studies the works of the Master Mr. Mahmoud Reda of Cairo, Egypt. She sponsors several seminars with known names per year. . Morwenna is a member of NDA, APPHERD, CAPHERD, CID-UNESCO and the National Association for Teacher Certification in Middle Eastern Dance - NATCMED. She has taken management courses and seminars with Rhee Gold of MA and the Dance Studios Mastermind Group with Sam Beckford in Vancouver, BC. Has taken numerous courses in colleges and various private groups.. But her forte and that of the dance company is the Eastern Arabic (The Levant) countries, namely, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Palestine. She was inducted into the American Middle Eastern Hall of Fame in New York City in 1994 for her contributions, choreography and research in this art form. She was nominated Best Instructor 2001 by Zaghareet. She has written several books to further the studies of those interested in Middle Eastern Dance Studies. She has been on the staff of several dance magazines throughout the country. She has taught dance workshops for CAPHERD for the past 16 years in both Palm Springs and Riverside, CA. She has also taught for Amani in Lebanon in 2011with a request to return again. Every year or so, she does a teaching tour of New England. Plus Morwenna teaches in Mexico on a regular basis. She currently teaches her Elite Circle of dancers, regular students and is on the staff fro Mira Costa College. Research and writing are at the base of her learning curve at this time. She has completed several books for Middle Eastern Dance Training.
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Finger Cymbals - Morwenna Assaf
Original painting by Elisabeth Clark, MA www.elisabethclarkart.com
TALES 1001 001.jpgFINGER CYMBALS
PLAY THEM
CORRECTLY!
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©2011 by Morwenna Assaf
All rights reserved
First published in 2006
1001 Tales
Published and Printed by C*E*D*A*R Productions
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in any way whatsoever, without permission, except in the case of brief quotations.
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Finger Cymbals
Play Them Correctly!
RAIS Teaching Syllabus for Belly Dancers
Learn to Play Zills to Arabic Music
FOR THE BEGINNER STUDENT OR PERFORMER
Play exactly what the body is accenting.
Play exactly what the drummer is playing.
Never get off rhythm again
Dedicated to the memory of the late, great, master-teacher and choreographic genius. My friend and mentor!
Ibrahim Farrah (1939-1998)
Why be good when you can be great.
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Thank you to all my friends and students who over the years have made the world of Middle Eastern Dance make sense. Thank you to my teachers who are the wonderful people who made the journey all worth while. And finally, to my husband Walid, my partner in life and business, without whom, nothing would be possible. Habibi!
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This program that prepares you for the next step.
Dance to the drummers beat
Morwenna Assaf
DISCLAIMER
This book is designed to provide information about the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that we offer no guarantees as to the outcome. Finger cymbal playing is not a easy subject to accomplish as neither is dance in general. You must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Zills do not