Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Hafla ... What is a Hafla?


still remember a friend asking what was a Hafla ...

A Hafla, whose name comes from Arabic, now and in the West refers to a type of event for oriental dances, and by extension, tribal dance, "which apart from presenting dance, featuring music, preferably live food-if it could be Arabic to plan better, couscous and other things to share: literary, artistic creations, knowledge and tricks of clothing, henna tattoos ...

hafla can be made more or less open to the public, with or without bazaar, depending on the desire of the organization or staff.

What is the difference between a hafla, and a gala?
Normally, in a hafla can access all kinds of audiences and dancers of various levels, from intermediate to expert-and usually be either free or low cost. There may be a guest dancer, but the excellence of hafla is that the rest are not invited, but that point and want to share their dances.

Instead, a gala is composed a number of dancers hired or invited, usually high level, including a foreign dancer, offered a show, and entry is usually average or above, and also often seen in theaters or similar special spaces to provide high quality performance.

addition, the hafla also other activities in interludes of music, attendees can enjoy food, ...

Moreover, within hafla have other modality that would be "open hafla"-American origin, but released by the Argentine especially.

is a hafla offered in a public place and open-air, so that there is no economic reuptake, and it can join all the participants who so wish, and the public also improvised. In addition hafla such air flows into the tribal spirit, sharing, breaking differences, both between dancers and between dancers and other attendees, where everyone can interact sharing. Upcoming

hafla Barcelona and Catalunya:
  • September 5, 21h. Summer Hafla Zaghareet organized by Tribal Troupe. Gava (Beach Dunes) I leave a link to more information that you see and what you have to bring http://zaghareettribalgroup.blogspot.com/2009/07/hafla-de-verano.html
  • September 27, 18h (venue to be specific, Barcelona) 2nd International Hafla (now comes the second, yes), to celebrate the equinox. The features are those of "hafla open" (almost like the Zaghareet too ^ ^). You may come again some live music, ad ... Here you have two links, that of MEM (organizers and coordinators of the idea and events around the world of HI) and facebook group to join the event, see updates and more information. You can also request information by sending an email to lisbushi (@) gmail (.) Com. I hope who decides to go to all, or at least to some.
  • And I leave a link as I was in Madrid the International Hafla, it must be recognized that in Madrid there were many, and they got something, break dancing academies differences. It was really nice, to see if you go the more you earn


Zaghareets and good summer!

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