{"id":3425,"date":"2021-08-30T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2021-08-30T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:16:14","slug":"fakarouni-by-orly-portal-suzanne-dellal-august-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/?p=3425","title":{"rendered":"Fakarouni- by Orly Portal. Suzanne Dellal, August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Free spirited dancer and teacher Orly Portal has been part of the local dance scene's fring for a long time and is best known for her interest in Oriental dance, often referred to as Belly Dance, on which she developed her own interpretation, and became her stylistic niche. \u00a0In recent years she worked to stretch her lexicon by adopting components from other disciplines. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fakarouni\n (think of me, in Arabic) is a very famous\nsong of the late Umm Kulthum' repertoire. Although she passed away a quarter of\na century ago, she is still considered as a national icon in Egypt and beyond. Yet,\nPortal who created Fakarouni as an homage to her, goes on a  different artistic path which doesn't always reflects\nthe values that the revered artist had represented and Portal's own stage\npersona may challenge Umm Kulthum traditional devotees.   Through\na short old film projected on stage, Umm Kulthum comes across as an elegant,\nself retrained performer, which elevated the traditional music into a higher, more\nsophisticated level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portal\nwas set to explore her own performance goals. She starts by bringing on stage for\nthe first time, three energetic contemporary male dancers that came from varied\ndance disciplines, far from her own comfort zone. Most of the evening, the dancers;\nAnderson, Estman and Zohar totally ruled the stage with fast flowing moves\nbased on delightful  whirling and\ntwirling jumps and rich quick silver position changes. The dancers had grace\nand improvisational skills that kept us interested in their rapid shifting\ncompositions tinted with Oriental innuendoes of a sensuous nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portal\nherself showed up much later when the dancers rested on percussion boxes called\nKajon. From that moment on, Portal took over the show and left hardly any room\nfor her dance partners. Yes, they were still on stage but were used for practical\npurposes, portrayed as her admirers. Portal, aware of her obvious presence, used\nit to switch Fakarouni  from an enjoyable\nstage dance into a juicy act of 'Hafla', (Arabic for an informal party ). Being\nhighly charged, she played directly to the audience, encouraging them stand up\nand clap ecstatically to the music, while she shook her hips and rubbed her\nbosom, encouraged by the aroused audience.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately\nFakarouni had a real promising potential but failed artistically since Portal succumbed\nto a line of populist judgments and as a result, she also wronged  her own dancers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free spirited dancer and teacher Orly Portal has been part of the local dance scene's fring for a long time and is best known for her interest in Oriental dance, often referred to as Belly Dance, on which she developed her own interpretation, and became her stylistic niche. \u00a0In recent years she worked to stretch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[919,593,918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancetalk.co.il\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}