TORE, TORE, TORE, did you say your video TORE??? OMG!!! Isn't that the most sickening thing? I've had two tapes get stuck in the same machine. I'm threatening to throw the VHS player away! I don't know why this happens to my most cherished tapes. Other tapes are not affected by this player, darned thing! Oh, I'm so mad.

I think there are video repair shops, but sometimes I wonder if a piece of Scotch tape would work just as well. It does for cassettes, but you do get a "blip" in the sound which I'm sure you would get on the tape as well.

But back to Horacio, the white costume and back bend and flutters sound familiar. If it's the same I was wholly amazed! It was like Horacio did this so effortlessly! Have you seen the drum solo one where he is wearing a blue and gold costume and doing a million super mini chest lifts amongst other incredible movements??? Good heavens! I never knew anyone could do such feats!

Azeeza

PS On a side note, when I mentioned to my husband that Horacio creates and makes Beata's costumes. My husband gasped and said, "He's not a man, he's a GOD!"

"I believe that songs, perhaps entire Oriental Fantasy productions, were written for them. I'll have to research it in the morning, though."

Most definitely not. They use some folklore songs- that have been around many many years before any of us were born! They also have a good number of Oum Kolsoum songs- written for Oum Kolsoum.
What they DO do is hire musicians to record the songs specifically FOR belly dance, which is lovely.