Tarab is like being such an artist, being deep in your own sultinah, and then being able to effect the audience in an ecstatic almost hypnotic way. It is not a compliment you give yourself. It is called a gift from God by those who have studied and performed a lifetime and can sometimes go into the zone and take an audience with them. It is a height that one aims for. It is accepted in Egypt that the only artist who could attain Tarab every time she performed was Umm Kulthum. It is important to understand what this phenomenon is, and its place in Middle Eastern culture. It is important to train until your body can perform anything that your soul commands. It is important to work on improvisation so that when you go into sultinah your body will follow your souls interpretation. At this time you are not supposed to be thinking and remembering movement by your brain. A choreography is made/developed/crafted as a response to the music or feeling of one moment, maybe in a studio, maybe with no other people there, maybe to a CD that played the same way every time. But when you perform you are in a different space; if your goal is to perform a wonderful choreography then all is fine. But if your goal is tarab, to take a lesson from the homelands of tarab, you are supposed to relate to the immediate energy of the moment, releasing the brain and responding to the immediate music which is playing by a live musicians who are also playing from feeling. Then if God smiles on you, the music will be lifted, you will be lifted, the audience will be lifted; you wont remember what you did or what the musician played, you wont know if it was 20 seconds or 20 minutes. But the audience will remember that moment for years and cry when they recall it. It is not a name of a dance or music style, and not compliment you give yourself.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:39:56 +0000
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