Moroccan Amazigh Dance Style - Chleuh Ahwash
Explore the traditional Amazigh dance of Morocco's Souss region
Class with Nawarra of Morocco
Moroccan Amazigh Dance Style - Chleuh Ahwash
Explore the traditional Amazigh dance of Morocco's Souss region
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The Amazighs are the original Inhabitants of Morocco and North Africa in general. There are various tribes of Amazighs in Morocco. Each Tribe has its own significance, tradition, and their own dialect as well.
In this workshop, we are portraying the Moroccan Amazigh known as Chleuh, that's the region of Agadir souss and surroundings. This Dance style is usually performed by men and women on opposite sides. Each is in lines shoulder to shoulder. The dance requires a lot of hopping steps, shoulder shimmies, and some hands/arms gestures. Usually, the lines follow the leader who is typically the singer, but can be the drummer.
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Hailing from Casablanca, Nawarra studied Arts and Drama at the University before taking the opportunity of moving to the UK in 1996 and continue her Studies in Leeds.
In Morocco, Nawarra was a member of Various Theatre Groups specialising in Sketch-shows and Comedy and also working with some of the Top Moroccan Comedians. She loves to entertain and bring a great passion, high energy and sense of fun to every performance.
Nawarra was privileged to be pointed at several times as the Moroccan Fifi and built her own dance style. She’s honoured to see her name more and more linked to anything Moroccan. She has taken part in enormous dance events all over the world for more than 15 years, from Morocco to Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Israel , Croatia, Turkey Greece, Japan, Ireland, Sweden and more.
She co-founded Funoon company – Venture spreading access to traditional Middle Eastern dance, and mainly seeking to introduce, not only Arabic Music but the Arabic language through either acting or introductions to every folkloric dance. This has drawn a high interest from the arab media. i.e. BBC Arabic, AlGhad Alarabi, Aljazeera and Hespress.
Her drive to keep Folkloric style alive is big especially the North African styles. “I will carry on doing it till my end.”