Banat Casablanca - Tinkerbell's Dance Troupe Sisters and Brothers
Tribal Style Belly Dance Troupe from Macomb, IL
Celebration of Women Arts Night, Sullivan Taylor Coffee House, September 2004
We performed to the song "Body Beautiful" by Salt 'n Peppa. Photos by Steve Hobson
International Bazaar, Western Illinois University, March 2004
The "Mysterious Ways" performance began with the Tabla Motown Remix, which is slow, sexy, and dreamlike. Banat Casablanca dancers perform a balancing routine with swords and baskets.
More of the Tabla Motown Remix of "Mysterious Ways" performance. Isabela Peri (front) with a sword, Tinkerbell (middle) with a basket, and Aurora (back) with a sword peform a shoulder shimmy.
Cut from the Tabla Mowtown Remix to the album rock version of "Mysterious Ways" halfway through the song. Banat dancers sat down their swords and baskets, removed their head scarves, and shook out their hair. The audience went wild! "On your knees, boy!" Astara Laila (front) and Isabela Peri perform an oasis pose.
Inanna, Aurora, and Tinkerbell (hidden by Aurora's hair) whip up a frenzy in the audience with more wild hair tossing!
Banat dancers finished the "Mysterious Ways" performance with improvizational tribal style dancing. The core group danced at the back of the stage. Dancers took turns in pairs or in threes to go up to the front and show off their style.
An interpretation of the Moroccan Berber tribe "chikkat" dance, the dance for "Learned Women" to teach brides how to move their bodies on the wedding night.
The Lebanese debke line dance. It's always a crowd-pleaser at every show.
Various photos: I will post more pictures as I get them.
Afsana with her snake, Oded.
Inanna dances with a basket.
Serida Bastet balances a cane.
Aysu wears a folkloric costume to the S.C.A. Banquet.
