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April 2017

East Koncept  and friends are pleased to welcome you to an artistic charity evening  on the theme of Movement, on Friday April 11 at 7 pm at the premises of Jevrejska Opstina, Kralja Petra 71/A.

  • From 7 pm, Movement of the pencil and arabesques on paper of the students of Ivona Pleskonja, tomorrow’s greats. Mingle between the easels and pick your favorite drawing.  You can acquire them at the auction.
  • From 7 30 pm to 8 pm, graphic and choreographic Movement through the performance of the oriental dance company “Les Jasmins”.
  • Presentation of the project «Održivo Svratište“(Sustainable shelter) by the Center for integration of youth.
  • Starting 8 pm, it is a Movement of generosity that we are inviting you to: participate at an auction sale of the artists of East Koncept .
The entrance fee will be 200 dinars for tickets bought before April 11 and 300 dinars for entrance the d-day at the gate. All of the benefits will go to the Center for the Integration of Youth.
The entire profits raised through the sale of tickets, and 40% of the profits raised through the sale of artwork will be donated to the NGO Centar za integraciju mladih (Centar for the integration of Youth). The Trag foundation, which supports the efforts of this organization in the development of various models of independent funding of the Center, undertakes to pay 2 ADDITIONAL DINARS to EACH DINAR paid into an account specially made avalaible by the C.i.M.
Your donations will be directed to activities and expenses related to the support of children in the Center throughout the year 2014. The donation of the Trag Foundation will focus on the lauch of social enterprises and second hand stores.
The success of the project depends a little on us, but a whole lot on you, so show up in large numbers.

The “heart” of the program

Veil manipulation for arms and back muscles srenghtening (you need to prepare to carry your baby and handle the stroller).

Ondulation – hips and belly

Contraction and release of the pelvis.

I am offering you, from september 1, to meet Mondays and Fridays from 12 to 1pm, in Funfit Club, Kralja Milana 4. You can bring your baby to class if you want!

I am avalaible for your comments and suggestions.

Girls, do you want to know the secret of a happy, fulfilled, fun, and sexy pregnancy (three in my case)? As you know, it comes from the head, however not only…

Having the double experience of motherhood in France and in Serbia, I can assure you that, despite all my happiness to live among the Serbs, I thank heaven to have started my career as a mom elsewhere!!!

As soon as my stomach began to show, I was regarded as an alien, a very friendly one indeed, but totally irresponsible! Then I realized, I who was expecting my third child (!) and behaving exactly like the previous two times – active from the first to the last day of pregnancy, full of energy and enthusiasm -how big the cultural gap between Serbian women and myself was.

I gave birth, in term, to a baby in great shape, calm and peaceful, which I could take everywhere with me and who turn into a sociable and curious child, open to the world.

Briefly, here are the benefits of the practice of oriental dance, during and immediatly after pregnancy:

  • Forcing you to leave home and get ready for your rendez-vous with the mirror. Oriental dance loves and respects curves, and a regular practice will prevent these curves to turn into undesirable overweight.
  • Give you a space to dare Thousand and one night outfits, both comfortable and ideal to highlight your changing body. This is the time to dare necklines that would cause car accidents

March 2017

Belly dance or oriental dance?

In Arabic, the dance is called “raqs sharqy”, literally meaning “oriental dance”.

Although it was performed, in the pharaoh’s times, as a fertility dance that emphasized the belly, we are almost sure the appellation “Belly Dance” is a western deformation of “Baladi Dance” (dance from the country).

The two pieces costumes, revealing made-up belly-buttons, appeared in Egypt in the Fifties as a response to the occidental expectation.

I have the feeling “Belly Dance” is better perceived than its French translation “Danse du Ventre” which, apart from being reductive (the whole body dances, not only the belly), lacks an artistic connotation.

For instance, you remember there was a fun belly dancer in this couscous restaurant, but you couldn’t say how she danced like, whereas you will make sure to get good tickets for your favorite oriental dancer’s next performance.

Maybe just a vocabulary issue, but in the marketing era, a very important one!

Soon, people call me Alex.
I am french, leo, arabophile, and thanks to an improbable twist of life, married to a Serb and expatriate in Belgrade where I teach oriental dance…in Cyrillic.I can say all that without taking a breath, but you, are you still following ?

No, seriously, I learnt the language, and believe me, to evoke undulations, shimmys, and poignant emotions in a language you can draw with a ruler, it’s not given to everyone, and just for that, respect, read what I have to say !

Since the emergence of my Balkan adventures, I promise myself to take notes, to make indelible all those caviar pearls accumulated over the years. Almost 10, I just can’t believe it !!!

Status of things in 2003 : salsa is showing off , not a single party without cuban dehanchés, but no oriental dance on the horizon.In 2013 (almost), glitter  has gained ground. My school, Nedjma, a star in arabic, never seems to empty, and the milky way ‘s spreading over neighboring countries.

Of course, there are filiations I claim more than others, but I must be honest, I am proud and happy with the success my mission as ambassador of the most beautiful dance in the world has.

I feel like telling you everything, why oriental dance, since when, against which prejudices do I have to crusade, what is my style, which inspirations feed it, which artistic metissage call me, etc…Ask me everything, I dream of this bridge between you and me, and I promise you lines and lines of delirant delight. Generally, I prefer curves, but for you, I will make any effort.

So I am expecting you, let’s meet,

Alex

La danse orientale a Belgrade, c’est de ma faute !

Très vite on m’appelle Alex.
Je suis Française, lion, arabophile, et grâce à un improbable rebondissement de la vie, mariée à un Serbe et expatriée a Belgrade où j’enseigne la danse orientale…. en cyrillique.
Moi je peux dire tout ça sans reprendre mon souffle, mais vous, vous suivez ?
Non,

February 2017

Knowing where the first civilizations appeared, we could say that, as soon as there were humans, and as soon as they started to dance, there was oriental dance. So our beloved dance finds its roots in prehistory!

Oriental dance through centuries

For what we can trace, in the fifth century, hunger made most of the Gypsy tribes leave India. Some left for Europe through Turkey and settled in Spain, where flamenco was born, a combination of Indian holly dance, Arabic and Andalouse influences.
Others followed the south coast, and, crossing Mesopotamia, arrived in Egypt.
In the pharaoh times, women were dancing in temples for the goddess of love and fertility.
This goddess, Ishtar in Syria, Aphrodite in Greece, Salome in the Bible, was taking possession of them, making them holy and ready to offer themselves to men.

In the nineteenth century, western men start travelling to the Orient and reporting their experiences. Bonaparte’s men, after their Egyptian expedition, talk about “endless desert, warm sand, and dark-skinned dancers who follow the army and abandon themselves to men’s pleasure”.
Delacroix paints a Jewish wedding in Morocco, Nerval and Flaubert talk about luxury and decadence. Light and landscapes emphasize women’s eroticism, men’s senses are overwhelmed.

Oriental dance in cinema

Then comes the cinema, in 1916, and with it, the western vision and fantasy of colonized women. In Charlie Chaplin’s parodies, dancers execute funny undulations with their hips. In “le Marchand de sable”, they are half naked. Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Liz Taylor and others interpret many Cleopatras and Salomes. Costumes are out of a fairy tale, an explosion of light and transparence.

In 1926, the Lebanese Badia Masabni opens the dance school and cabaret Casino Opera in Cairo. A lot of artists she coached make a career in the cinema.

Tahia Karioka is the one to introduce the shimmy in the steps. She probably got the technique from Brazilian samba which she danced as well.

In the Fifties, finally, the movie Ali Baba from Jacques Beker reveals a real dancer, with a well controlled

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