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See you at Tribal Alchemy!

2007-10-23T18:54:12Z

can't wait to meet you ladies....and see you DANCE!!!!!

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New moderator

2007-10-18T03:18:54Z

It is with much excitement that I appointed Razi as the new moderator of the Tribe site for Troupe Malek. As I am now living in Louisiana I no longer can be up to date on photos and posts BUT please keep posted for photos of Razi and Idancing together at Tribal Alchemy this coming weekend!!!!
Fatin

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troupe malek and john harris

2007-06-05T11:10:49Z

This Sunday at the KY Ren faire Troupe Malek will perform with the accomplished and talented John Harris on drums. John Harris currently performs with the Louisville Orchestra as a percussionist as well as plays a variety of instruments with the Celtic Rock group "Men of Thunda." John plays traditional drums as well as the snare, tabla, jembe, congos and the occasional trash can lids and poles!
www.kyrenfaire.com.

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Tempest at Safiyyah's Benefit June 2nd Louisville KY

2007-04-14T02:19:31Z

Yes it is true!!! our special guest star!!!! Tempest.

Need I say how excited Safiyyah is to have her at her benefit?

Louisville Ky June 2nd 2007

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Understudies: live music performance oppurtunity and a good cause!!!! (Safiyyah's benefit)

2007-04-07T16:20:44Z

Hey there Troupe Malek and esp the understudies. June 2nd is the opening day for the Ren Faire and it is very possible that no understudies will be at the Ren faire the opening weekend. (We want to work out all of the first day kinks before we send you into the trenches) I want to encourage the understudies to come out and perform at Safiyyah's benefit. Many of you know Selimah (Pat Stanfield/ Mystic Hips) and her beautiful dancing daughter Safiyyah. What alot of folks do not know is that Safiyyah struggles with MS and there are times she can barely move let alone dance. On June 2nd is a fundraiser for Saffiyah with three live music groups. I want to encourage all understudies to join me in performing "Sadiya" (Zill and Tamborine piece) to live music at the benefit. I will be burning rubber to get to the benefit from the Ren faire. We will wear our Ren faire garb in the show (that way I don't have to change!!)
See the details below!

Keep Safiyyah Dancing Benefit
Saturday June 2nd
Doors open at 6:00 p.m
Show Starts at 7:00 p.m.
Saint Helens Catholic Church Gym
4005 Dixie Highway
Louisville, Ky 40216
Call Darkdove/Selimah aka Patt cell # 502-445-3178

From Selimah:
My daughter Safiyyah has Aggressive Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. This means she has had times when she cannot walk, or drive, or work, much less dance.
The Medicines she has been taking over the last three years are not working for her. The new medicine they are treating her with is very expensive. Not to mention her loss of work while recieving treatment.

We are having a Benefit Show to help her out, along with a silent auction.

We would like to represent the many styles of Belly Dance. And have lots of fun.

We already have Snakes Rising, Il Troubadore, Dale, Selimah, Soraya, Taletha, Laura, JaeJae, Belly -D and many more confirming every day!

Check this out:

snakesrising.com/_wsn/page12.html

Snakes Rising now has a fundraising page for the "Keep Safiyyah Dancing" benefit. Between now and June 2nd (date of the hafla) we will be donating $5 to $10 for every item purchased via this page.

Then we'll see you at the event, of course. You'll be able to win Red Tour tickets there at the auction/ raffle. too!

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Want to be a part of...

2007-03-21T15:05:13Z

Safiyyah's Benefit? Saturday,June 2nd, Louisville Ky
We still have room for more Belly Dancers in The benefit. If you want to help out by performing in Safiyyah's benefit, we have Snakes Rising, Il Troubadore, George and Firas, and Dale. Three sets of the greatest music you could ever want to dance to.
Lots of spots.
Let me know Personal message me.
~~Wiggles~~

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Ren Faire 2007 it is a DONE deal

2007-03-17T18:03:48Z

I just spoke with Ed from the KY Ren faire.....we are in like Flynn again. The contracts are in the mail. What this means is NO MORE missing class or rehearsal unless you are on fire!
Also, the understudies need a crash course on the Sisters Malek's story, 15th century Ottoman trader history and the Ghawazee. We will have our first crash couse and understudy rehearsal on 3-18-07 at my home at 1:30 PM. Also, if there are understudies that are not on tribe.net please join.
The whip cracks now!
Fatin

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Ghawazee Camp

2007-03-15T22:35:17Z

Hello to the new Aprentices as you join our site. Ghawazee Camp starts on March 18th at 1:30. At my home. Private message me to get directions if you don't remember how to get to my house. You can expect some rehearsal to learn some of our core dances, education on dos and don't of the Ren faire, costuming and history. Wear comfy clothes, bring an appetizer and a note pad and pen. I will be attaching links to articles for you to print out and read. If it is posted on this site I want you to read it ALL. The first attachment is to an AWESOME group called the Ottoman traders. Please read every page on the site
http://www.ottoman-traders.com/
There will be a test!

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Best New Ren Faire and Sisters Malek

2007-03-06T14:15:31Z

I am too excited!!!!!!
The KY Ren Faire was nominated as the Best New Renaissance Faire for 2006. As if that was not enough....drum roll please....The Sisters Malek (Troupe Malek) placed second overall in the Best Dance troupe catagory!!!!!!!
Here is the link. I am too excited!!!!!!
http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/awards/
Fatin

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Vintage Belly Dance music

2007-02-22T02:34:48Z

I found this web site: www.radiobastet.com that has vintage belly dance music. I have been listening to it for the last 30 mins and if you are interested in George Abdo, or other old style performers, then you need to listen to this site. The podcasts are free. Marisa is a dancer in Portland who has taken it upon herself to make these recordings. She is also on tribe.net!!

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Best New Ren faire of 2006 and Sisters Maek

2007-02-08T18:03:41Z

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Yahoo photos

2006-07-12T00:33:39Z

http://us.f369.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=2619_447501_3929_1522_55119_0_11798_79927_4023292273&Idx=3&YY=48201&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox

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Trailer on the faire

2006-07-12T00:28:22Z

A new film is coming out on Ren Faire's and the trailer was filmed at our faire!!!!!
See it on You Tube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz8SPgwg3Ig

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Some of our new friends

2006-07-12T00:20:46Z

I have added some of the people we have grown to love at the KY Ren faire! We will miss them so much but we will see them again next year!
Fatin

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Photo link

2006-07-04T19:29:15Z

http://www.henrycountyky.com/RenFaire/index.htm
Great photos of the Ren faire on the Henry Couty home page.....It's all about Tahira though.
Just kidding. These were taken on opening day when Ornah and I left Tahira all on her own while we found a "band"

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Lex Herald at the Ren faire

2006-06-28T02:20:41Z

Check out this link with photos from Lexington Herald. There are several of the Sisters Malek!
http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/multimedia/ren/fair.html

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Ren faire

2006-06-09T01:33:54Z

Okay, the first weekend is under our belts. If any one wants to post their thoughts or critiques feel free. From my perspectives here are some positives: Men of Thunda will drum for our 2:30 show (Awesome!) We are a hit in the parade and made alot of noise. We are a colorful addition to the Faire. The pub show set up rocks and we made super tips in the pub. We grew in our improv ability by leaps and bounds in ONE weekend. The site is beautiful and all of the entertainers are class acts.
Set backs: We had to haul all of our equipment in on our backs no driving the car right up to the gate to load and unload. There is no sound system. I bought a 170 watt system for when we are not working with drummers. The mud was horrid. The camping bathrooms are not completed. Our shows are at 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30 pant.pant.pant! The mainstage was awful lonely on Sunday very few patrons on this day. And finally a black head wrap on your head is like dancing with an oven mit on your head hot, hot, hot!
Fatin

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only 4 days and counting

2006-05-31T12:51:10Z

Only four days and counting until Troupe Malek or should I say the family Malek will descend upon the quaint village of Briarwood circa 14th century. The Malek family will be performing at the brand new KY Rennaisance faire every Sat and Sun June 3rd thru July 9th. We will perform 3 times daily as well as have an encampment off of "main street" so please stop by and join us for a cool drink and maybe I will read your cards!
Fatin
Visit us at:
www.kyrenfaire.com/
or
www.malekdance.com/

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New web site

2006-05-17T14:31:33Z

It's alive! The home page is now up! Please visit
www.malekdance.com/
and buy our designer a beer next time you see him.
Where is everyone?

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say hi!

2006-05-12T03:37:51Z

Everyone say HI to Hamzah and Marjhani!
These two artists are with OOjam and they recently performed at a California Ren faire and are a great resource in planning and organizing our troupe to perform at the KY Highland Ren faire. I have attached their Tribe.net site and the photos are LOVELY and they look like they had fun too!
Fatin

http://tribes.tribe.net/oojam

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Line up for KY REn faire

2006-04-28T02:15:05Z

Here is the schedule as it stands:
June 3: Liz, Tami, Patty
June 4: Liz, Tami, Patty
June 10: Liz, Tami, Carolyn
June 11: Liz, Tami, Carolyn
June 17: Tami, Abigail, Rebecca
June 18: Tami, Carolyn, Becky
June 24: Tami, Rebecca, Becky
June 25: Tami, Rebecca, Becky
July 2: Liz, Caroly, Sherri
July 3: Liz, Carolyn, Sherri
July 8: Patty, To be decided, To be decided
July 9: Patty, to be decided, to be decided
It would be lovely on the last Saturday if as many troupe and understudies can be there for the stage show!

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KY Rennaisance Faire

2006-04-26T23:25:31Z

Calling all aprentices!
Troupe Malek is signing on for six weeks (12-7 PM every Sat and Sun) as the belly dance troupe for the Ren Faire in Eminence KY. We will be sending 3 dancers each day that the farie is open. What this means is we need any willing understudies to be part of the fun. We will be taking the personna of a 1700's Ghawazee dance troupe from Egypt. We will be designing a more summer friendly Ghawazee costume and be learning more about being in the first person personna. This is a big deal and I am stoked.
Her si the web site:
http://www.kyrenfaire.com/
Fatin

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A Good story line for a Ren faire

2006-04-26T13:40:16Z

As we are shorring up our "Story" (how we got where we are, who we are etc) I though it might be helpful to hear other MED Ren groups stories for inspiriation..... I have the storyline from Oojam, a California Ren Faire dance and music troupe. Also, I have invited a few of their members onto our chat line for any pearls of wisdom that will be helpful to us in our caravan travels....
Oojam's story:

My father Mahmoud had grown ill and was unable to lead the caravan to the many faires to trade our spices, fabrics and jewels so his oldest daughter of his first wife and her husband Hamzah have decided to do it for him. His oldest son Azir was away fighting wars when we headed off, but we ran into him on the way so now he has joined us as well.

My character is a mid-wife (so when I'm absent I'm out delivering a baby). On our travels we came across a Jewish woman who was in labor. Her husband said if it was another girl he would have them both killed, so I lied and told him the boy child was born dead, then disappeared in the night with his new baby girl to save her and her mother from death. This is how we ended up with Hadara.

Then we were traveling the road and came across a slave girl who had run away,(Tamara), so we took her in and now we want to test her skill to see if she is worthy of being in our tribe. Then we make her dance and ask the audience's opinion. At this point the men fight over who will marry her, at which time, my dear sister-in-law Somatrdevi jumps up and complains that she has been waiting a long time to marry and why shouldn't she get to be the first to marry. At this point I make her show off her assetts (dance) and ask for a bridal price of X amount of camels from diffierent men in the audience.

On to Mercy and her daughter Lynnaya, their caravan was attacked on the road and they were the only 2 survivors left, so we scooped them up too!(Mercy dances in honor of those who she loved or in celebration of her good fortune to be rescued)

some of our drummers are soldiers in training, one who has a bad eye already plays,Halil, the man who saved Azir's life in battle and took a blow for it. Now they are close friends and he lives with us on the caravan route and is one of our musicians (drummer)

These are just a few of our story pieces. We try to add to it every weekend, so that at the end of the run we have told the overall story of Oojam.

Hope this helps! We even let the little ones (5 total from ages 4-6 yrs) run around the stage and even dance a set! This really gets the audience going!

The most important thing is to talk to your audience. I sometimes will just give them things to do during the show. I teach them to Zaghreet, or tell them to hiss if she is very snake like. I tell them that "Aiwa" means yes and "Hizzy, Hizzy Habibi: means to shake it my sweety or dearest. We even yell out" Yella, Yalla " which means come on! This makes them feel good to know how to respond to something they like.

Good luck and Please keep me posted. I'm anxious to hear how things go!

May the sun always shine upon you,
Marjhani

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historical belly dance

2006-04-24T13:34:14Z

Hi there, it's me again. I thought I'd start a new thread to post resources on historical belly dance. I hope that's not too presumptuous. Even if you're already aware of this stuff, perhaps having it all in one topic would be useful?

If you haven't seen the Belly Dance Museum already: http://www.belly-dance.org/index.html (click on museum) there's a specific gahwazee link under "historical stuff"

If some of you Ladies are SCA dancers, you're probably already aware of the SCA Middle Eastern Dance Tribe http://scamedance.tribe.net but I thought I'd post it to be sure.

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first person phrases and Arabic greetings

2006-04-19T01:49:55Z

Please check out the attached link for first person assistance on Arabic greetings and some great phrases in English such as
"Razi have I ever told you that you are the light of my eyes...the fruit of my liver?"
Not the liver again!!!!!
Fatin
http://www.ottoman-traders.com/language.html

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Fabric restictions for Ren Faire

2006-04-18T13:50:06Z

As I was in my bed, trying to sleep, I was thinking of costuming for the upcoming Ren Fest. (everyone knows how crazy I am about fabric) If we are truly Ghawazee from Egypt then we are not subject to the European codes of dress. So we can wear any color and any fabric that we find is close to being what would have been worn by 'us' in the 1700's. Maybe we don't have to be drab little peahens, but bold and bright pea hens!!!! I say we wear our black gauze pants, and our red or orange coats ( which color that we choose) and belts and (which ever) King James be damned!!! (As long as we are paid our 40 shillings)

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Razi as a child dancer

2006-04-13T20:03:07Z

http://www.ezprezzo.com/videoclips/belly_dancing_girl.html

Check this out. This is a video clip of Razi as a young dancer.....well it is filmed in Turkey. Razi you never told me you performed as a child in Turkey.

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Web site

2006-01-23T18:00:51Z

Ornah and I got a preview of the Home Page for the Web site and it is GORGEOUS! It has an "Adam Basma" feel that Tahira will love. It definitely has an Ethnic feel with a touch of glamour so I beleive it will be a nice represenative for our running statement on the left hand side of the home page:
"Malek is a troupe of independent artists representing the many faces of Middle Eastern Dance. We have performed since 2000 at Ethnic festivals, black tie galas and medieval banquets." Frank should have the home page up with an "Under construction" disclaimer on it by the end of the week.
Ou web addy will be:
www.malekdance.com

Fatin

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