PROGRAM CONTENT:
“A Doll’s Love…”
Dancers: Syn, ToySurprise
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Syn, ToySurprise
A girl who is rapidly approaching her teen years is given a mysterious gift – a doll. Deeming the doll an unworthy and childish gift, the girl largely ignores the doll. But love can come in bizarre forms, and love cannot be denied….
“Piety”
Dancers: Tom, Saviya, Eve
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Eve
The pitfall of pious faith and devotion is that one can be blindsided from unexpected sources…and the power struggles ensue….
“Darkness”
Dancer: Frederique
Choreography: Frederique
Concept: Frederique
Costuming: Frederique
Frederique has been belly dancing tribal style for 9 yrs. and is an original pioneer in the Urban/ Fusion tribal belly dance movement that is sweeping the belly dance nation today….All the way from Oakland, California
Give it up for Dis Funky Bitch!
“Snip Snip”
Dancers: Syn
Choreography: Syn
Concept: Syn
Costuming: Syn
….Another delightful German fable devised to keep naughty children in a well-behaved fearful state….
“Tension”
Dancers: Saviya & Sina
Choreography: Saviya & Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Sina
The love triangle between sadism, masochism, and dance – the masochist’s desire for her own suffering, the sadist’s desire to inflict that suffering, and the dance that is born of it….
“Spinster”
Dancers: Lorraine, Ida Clare, Tova, Janel
Choreography: Lorraine
Concept: Lorraine
Costuming: Lorraine
As a toxicology major, Lorraine happily worked in an entomology lab with dangerous critters. Now she aspires to work in a prison, giving the inmates prescription medication as well as bellydance lessons. She is disheartened with her mother’s belief that ballet dancers are far more worth watching than creative bellydancers. Her piece tonight depicts the beauty of the poisonous pest known as the black widow…
“Nixies”
Dancers: Saviya, Sherri, & Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya
In German folklore, there are a breed of Fae who largely cannot be distinguished from humans. No wings, no pointed ears, no dresses made of flower petals….the Nixies, as they were known, were lake and river-dwelling faeries with an inclination for kidnapping human children, as the changeling mythos goes….
“Unfaithful”
Dancers: Katerina, Brankasha (Huntsman: Craig Paulson)
Choreography: Katerina
Concept: Katerina & Sina
Costuming: Katerina
Once Upon A Time, the unfaithful queen of a great country gave birth to a child of less than suitable blood. As the tale goes, the Mirror, her guilt personified, tells the queen what she must do. The queen summons her head huntsman to kill the child in order to conceal her indiscretion, but then she must face the horrors reflected in the Mirror.
“Cuckoo”
Dancers: Eve, Tom, Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Sina
The cuckoo bird is widely known in nature to be a brood parasite, laying its single egg in the nest of another, typically smaller, breed of bird. The unfortunate young of the nest parents typically will starve, as they are out-competed by the nest intruder, or very often, even physically ousted from the nest by the intruder, falling to their deaths. What is not widely known is that this brood parasitic behavior can also happen in the insect world.
But when nature’s laws have become twisted and blurred, producing a creature who is not-quite-bird and not-quite-insect, to what extent might a cuckoo’s deception go?
“Untitled”
Dancers: Heather Stants
Choreography: Heather Stants
Concept: Heather Stants
Costuming: Heather Stants
Urban Tribal Dance Company has been performing their unique fusion of traditional and modern movements, under the direction of Heather Stants, in San Diego and beyond since 1999. They have become a major innovative force in the world of tribal belly dance. Their style is a blend of middle eastern and other world dance forms fused with modern american dance influences, creating powerful performances which reflect and inspire current culture. Urban Tribal was named "troupe of the year" by Zaghareet magazine in 2003 and 2004.
“Medusa’s Mirror”
Dancers: Djahari & Cassandra, Desert Sin
Choreography: Djahari
Concept: Djahari
Costuming: Desert Sin
Medusa was cursed because of a grudge between Poseidon and Athena wherein Poseidon lost the city of Athens to the Goddess. To defame Athena, Poseidon lay with Medusa in Athena's temple, and because of this insult, Athena cursed Medusa. Here we focus on the ultimate loneliness of this curse and the struggle between the beautiful human she was and the fearsome immortal she became.
“Plan 9, Take 2”
Dancers: Ida Clare, Jalilah, Janel, Tova, Jesse Kingsley
Choreography: Amara
Concept: Amara
Strange things are afoot at the Cemetery.
Ya Helewa! is one of the most flexible Middle Eastern dance companies, performing a varied repertory of traditional and experimental improvisations and choreographies. They have held several regular dance jobs at Pars Restaurant and Moun of Tunis and are featured on several videos including IAMED’s Belly Dance Rocks!, BDTV, and the EEMED series. Other appearances also include Musée des Femmes, Cafe Beledy, One Enchanted Evening, The Knitting Factory, Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball, An Evening of Music and Dance, and An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance.
“HREX”
Dancers: Sherri, Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Sherri, Sina
The term “HREX” is the scientific anacronym for “human radiation experiment”. Human experimentation has been practiced for centuries. There are recorded cases of vivisection (or live dissection) of gladiators and slaves that happened as early as the Roman era. Usually the human beings used for experimental purposes were—and still are, to some degree—orphans, prisoners, the mentally retarded, soldiers, veterans, those in asylums, and those in state-run hospitals.
When former President Clinton ordered the declassification of the government-sponsored human radiation experiments and ordered them to be published on the internet in 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was forced to disclose the notes of 425 human radiation experiments conducted by the DOE and the Atomic Energy Commission during the 1940’s to the 1970’s. An alarming majority of these experiments never documented any informed consent of the subject of the experiments. Indeed, T.S. Chapman, who worked in Manhattan District Experiments at the University of California during the 1940’s, went on record saying that it was a commonplace to use patients in plutonium, uranium, polonium, lead, or radium injection and ingestion experiments without their knowledge and without asking them to sign any release or consent waivers. Resultantly, it was also protocol to schedule false-pretense surgeries to obtain samples of bone tissue, spleen tissue, liver tissue, and extraction of whole teeth to measure retained radioactive concentrations.
If you’d like to think of these HREX’s as a thing of the past, to help you sleep better at night, know this: a doctor at Yale University in February 2005 said that “Children in orphanages, children in homes of the mentally retarded, these are all good populations from the sense of medical research, because you have an easily accessible group of people living in controlled circumstances, and you can monitor them……It would even be an advantage in applying for grant money, because you don’t have to go to the problem of recruiting subjects.”
Sometimes you don’t have to seek out fantastic tales of gruesome monsters for a good scare. Sometimes you only have to look to the left or right of you.
“A Doll’s Love…”
Dancers: Syn, ToySurprise
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Syn, ToySurprise
A girl who is rapidly approaching her teen years is given a mysterious gift – a doll. Deeming the doll an unworthy and childish gift, the girl largely ignores the doll. But love can come in bizarre forms, and love cannot be denied….
“Piety”
Dancers: Tom, Saviya, Eve
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Eve
The pitfall of pious faith and devotion is that one can be blindsided from unexpected sources…and the power struggles ensue….
“Darkness”
Dancer: Frederique
Choreography: Frederique
Concept: Frederique
Costuming: Frederique
Frederique has been belly dancing tribal style for 9 yrs. and is an original pioneer in the Urban/ Fusion tribal belly dance movement that is sweeping the belly dance nation today….All the way from Oakland, California
Give it up for Dis Funky Bitch!
“Snip Snip”
Dancers: Syn
Choreography: Syn
Concept: Syn
Costuming: Syn
….Another delightful German fable devised to keep naughty children in a well-behaved fearful state….
“Tension”
Dancers: Saviya & Sina
Choreography: Saviya & Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Sina
The love triangle between sadism, masochism, and dance – the masochist’s desire for her own suffering, the sadist’s desire to inflict that suffering, and the dance that is born of it….
“Spinster”
Dancers: Lorraine, Ida Clare, Tova, Janel
Choreography: Lorraine
Concept: Lorraine
Costuming: Lorraine
As a toxicology major, Lorraine happily worked in an entomology lab with dangerous critters. Now she aspires to work in a prison, giving the inmates prescription medication as well as bellydance lessons. She is disheartened with her mother’s belief that ballet dancers are far more worth watching than creative bellydancers. Her piece tonight depicts the beauty of the poisonous pest known as the black widow…
“Nixies”
Dancers: Saviya, Sherri, & Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya
In German folklore, there are a breed of Fae who largely cannot be distinguished from humans. No wings, no pointed ears, no dresses made of flower petals….the Nixies, as they were known, were lake and river-dwelling faeries with an inclination for kidnapping human children, as the changeling mythos goes….
“Unfaithful”
Dancers: Katerina, Brankasha (Huntsman: Craig Paulson)
Choreography: Katerina
Concept: Katerina & Sina
Costuming: Katerina
Once Upon A Time, the unfaithful queen of a great country gave birth to a child of less than suitable blood. As the tale goes, the Mirror, her guilt personified, tells the queen what she must do. The queen summons her head huntsman to kill the child in order to conceal her indiscretion, but then she must face the horrors reflected in the Mirror.
“Cuckoo”
Dancers: Eve, Tom, Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Saviya & Sina
The cuckoo bird is widely known in nature to be a brood parasite, laying its single egg in the nest of another, typically smaller, breed of bird. The unfortunate young of the nest parents typically will starve, as they are out-competed by the nest intruder, or very often, even physically ousted from the nest by the intruder, falling to their deaths. What is not widely known is that this brood parasitic behavior can also happen in the insect world.
But when nature’s laws have become twisted and blurred, producing a creature who is not-quite-bird and not-quite-insect, to what extent might a cuckoo’s deception go?
“Untitled”
Dancers: Heather Stants
Choreography: Heather Stants
Concept: Heather Stants
Costuming: Heather Stants
Urban Tribal Dance Company has been performing their unique fusion of traditional and modern movements, under the direction of Heather Stants, in San Diego and beyond since 1999. They have become a major innovative force in the world of tribal belly dance. Their style is a blend of middle eastern and other world dance forms fused with modern american dance influences, creating powerful performances which reflect and inspire current culture. Urban Tribal was named "troupe of the year" by Zaghareet magazine in 2003 and 2004.
“Medusa’s Mirror”
Dancers: Djahari & Cassandra, Desert Sin
Choreography: Djahari
Concept: Djahari
Costuming: Desert Sin
Medusa was cursed because of a grudge between Poseidon and Athena wherein Poseidon lost the city of Athens to the Goddess. To defame Athena, Poseidon lay with Medusa in Athena's temple, and because of this insult, Athena cursed Medusa. Here we focus on the ultimate loneliness of this curse and the struggle between the beautiful human she was and the fearsome immortal she became.
“Plan 9, Take 2”
Dancers: Ida Clare, Jalilah, Janel, Tova, Jesse Kingsley
Choreography: Amara
Concept: Amara
Strange things are afoot at the Cemetery.
Ya Helewa! is one of the most flexible Middle Eastern dance companies, performing a varied repertory of traditional and experimental improvisations and choreographies. They have held several regular dance jobs at Pars Restaurant and Moun of Tunis and are featured on several videos including IAMED’s Belly Dance Rocks!, BDTV, and the EEMED series. Other appearances also include Musée des Femmes, Cafe Beledy, One Enchanted Evening, The Knitting Factory, Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball, An Evening of Music and Dance, and An Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance.
“HREX”
Dancers: Sherri, Sina
Choreography: Sina
Concept: Sina
Costuming: Sherri, Sina
The term “HREX” is the scientific anacronym for “human radiation experiment”. Human experimentation has been practiced for centuries. There are recorded cases of vivisection (or live dissection) of gladiators and slaves that happened as early as the Roman era. Usually the human beings used for experimental purposes were—and still are, to some degree—orphans, prisoners, the mentally retarded, soldiers, veterans, those in asylums, and those in state-run hospitals.
When former President Clinton ordered the declassification of the government-sponsored human radiation experiments and ordered them to be published on the internet in 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) was forced to disclose the notes of 425 human radiation experiments conducted by the DOE and the Atomic Energy Commission during the 1940’s to the 1970’s. An alarming majority of these experiments never documented any informed consent of the subject of the experiments. Indeed, T.S. Chapman, who worked in Manhattan District Experiments at the University of California during the 1940’s, went on record saying that it was a commonplace to use patients in plutonium, uranium, polonium, lead, or radium injection and ingestion experiments without their knowledge and without asking them to sign any release or consent waivers. Resultantly, it was also protocol to schedule false-pretense surgeries to obtain samples of bone tissue, spleen tissue, liver tissue, and extraction of whole teeth to measure retained radioactive concentrations.
If you’d like to think of these HREX’s as a thing of the past, to help you sleep better at night, know this: a doctor at Yale University in February 2005 said that “Children in orphanages, children in homes of the mentally retarded, these are all good populations from the sense of medical research, because you have an easily accessible group of people living in controlled circumstances, and you can monitor them……It would even be an advantage in applying for grant money, because you don’t have to go to the problem of recruiting subjects.”
Sometimes you don’t have to seek out fantastic tales of gruesome monsters for a good scare. Sometimes you only have to look to the left or right of you.
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