Photo: Jenny Johansson

Swedish Oriental Dancegroup ISIS Perform with Egyptian Folklore and Bellydance ISIS has since 1990 performed on folkloric festivals and other cultural events all over Scandinavia, such as for example Falun Folkmusic Festival, Oriental Dance Festival of Finland, the Waterfestival of  Stockholm and Stockholm '98.  ISIS has also produced performances of their own in theaters. Members  New members (now with pictures)! Dance personality of the year! We contribute in the new book on "Belly Laughs"!         Contact: Britt Thellberg, phone +46-8-646 14 97 or  mail: isis.dancegroup@telia.com Our new URL: http://move.to/isis We got it for free at http://come.to

Members of the dancegroup ISIS, in order of appearance in the picture above:

Ann, solo performer and dance teacher, Chairman of the Board of SODA
Karin, former secretary of SODA
Marja, solo performer and together with Ann and Karin also helpful in producing Bahi Barakat's book on Oriental Dance, the only one in swedish so far (she left the group in -98).
Britt, former Chairman of the Board of SODA 90-95
And we all perform in the different group dances, that we present some of them in "Repertoar".

The members of ISIS have since the middle of the 80's studied for internationally well-known teachers and choreografers such as Bahi Barakat (till he much too early passed away, we were all members of his dance group The Nile Dancers), Yousry Sharif, Morocco (New York), Shereen el Safy (California), Denise Enan (Canada), Leila Haddad (France), Issam Abo-El Nasr, Fayrouz (Germany), Samir Gaber, Mahmoud Reda, Farida Fahmy and Rakia Hassan (Cairo).
 

The costumes we usually buy during our trips to Egypt, some of them used by the stars down there, and some specially designed and made for us by the famous "Madame Abla" of Cairo.  Our specialty is to do folklore in such a genuine way, that people from Egypt "feel at home" eventhough they live in Scandinavia!

New members:

Since the summer of -98 we work together with two more dancers, and they will now perform as members of ISIS from the beginning of -99!  Here we can introduce Leena and Anita from former group CLEO. They are both brilliant choreographers and they add so much inspiration and experience to the group!!

Picture: Noel Pottier
This is Leena and Anita doing a candelabradance, a Shamedan.
Now we do it all five of us in a new choreography.
Five candelabras, with lit candles, this is rather unique!

And here Leena and Anita are performing a Saudi-dance:
Picture: Pelle Aronsson
We will all work on a new ISIS-choreography  now,
in these typical embroidered costumes in different bright colours.

Finally a  cane-dance, in a couple of nice pictures, taken by Lotta Krus:


Welcome Anita  and Leena!
 

Mahmoud Reda, who made about twenty percent of ISIS' choreographies has written the International Dans Day's Message of  this year! We congratulate him of this honour for himself, his work and this artform!

During one recent gala-performance with a mixture of lots of Oriental Dancers, we got this comment:
 - "Compared to most of the other sweet little innocent dancers, so fascinated by themselves and their own appearance, there's a difference with ISIS . The members of ISIS seem more mature and knowing the facts of life, and they also involve in so much more than just dancing, it shows on stage too."

ISIS has experience from shorter performances of 20-30 minutes up to a full show.
We have a repertoar of more than 20 different numbers. We also take part in bigger shows as a separate number among others of different character, cooperate with other dance groups and solo artists, such as for example Yousry Sharif, Morocco and As-Sayf.

You are welcome to contact us for a discussion about your needs for a festival, gathering or performance. Please note that we prefer to make plans on travelling abroad at least 3-6 months ahead, to match our schedules. But if you have some urgent ideas, please try us! Especially during the winter and if it's in a warm, sunny place...

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