Now, all Iraqi women, according to my friend, want to dance like this and dance the Kawleeya way at social events. However, as my friend tells me, after the war things have changed and the gypsies rose to become artists that represented Iraq. It was only performed by common people, by gypsies or by prostitutes (many of which in Iraq were Kawleeya), hence the bad reputation of this dance.
Kawleeya is a gypsy group in Iraq and Kawleeya literally means Gipsy.Īn Iraqi friend of mine, Jeanan, told me that, before the war, Kawleeya was a disgraceful dance. Daila is a great bellydancer and moves in ways that seem almost humanly impossible!Īs for the Kawliya dance, it seems to be characterized by the shoulder shimmies and the head rolls and energetic hair flipping. When I first saw one of these videos, I was amazed. You can see an example of her performance below.
KAALA DOORIA SONG DANCE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE PROFESSIONAL
I have become aware of this particular form of Middle Eastern dance from Iraq called Kawliya (also known as Kawleeya), through Yutube videos where Daila performs this genre.ĭaila is an international award-winner professional belly dancer based in the Czech Republic. Iraqi Kawliya has much faster hair tosses from back to front with faster footwork.” Kawliya from Iraq Khaleeji is very fluid and involves a simple drop step with swaying symbolic hand gestures. Khaleeji style is done in a thobe dress which is used as a vital prop in the dance. Shirley (pictured above, who teaches in Newport, Wales) has summarised the main differences between these two genres very well, saying: “Though both styles involve hair tossing, they are radically different. This movement seems to be also common to many Middle Eastern and Northern African trance dances, such as zaar from Egypt, and those dances that may have their roots in trance dances, such as Moroccan shikhat.
They come from two regions that are not too far from each other and also they have some movement patterns in common, such as the tossing of the head and spinning of the hair.
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