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We have a specially selected and vetted series of 'Learn How' VCDs and DVDs. If you want to learn how to belly dance, play the oud or the darbukka, here is professional learning material, selected for their ease in understanding and helpful visuals.    

Hilary Live DVD

Hilary Live features film of the internationally admired belly dancer Hilary Thacker dancing with live musicians from snake charmers in Marrakesh to the table tops of Istanbul. Perofrming in hotels, parties, clubs and restaurants in Bodrum, Cairo and Edinburgh.


Exotic location footage sets the scene for the dancing.

60 minutes, Region 0, Worldwide format
    
  

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Belly dance with Özel Turkbas, one of the first to introduce bellydance to the United States. Özel gives you step by step directions for all her famous dance steps and movements.    
  

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Hilary Thacker shares her professional experience and knowledge in this Egyptian-style belly dance course which she has specially designed for advanced dancers. The colorful and charming staging makes learning easy. Each step and movement is clearly explained and demonstrated.

Hilary is a renowned professional Egyptian-style dancer performing and teaching throughtout the UK and Middle East and, for use in the privacy of your own home, Hilary has designed a unique tutorial that can be used as an advanced instruction video or simply as a performance video to sit back and enjoy.

Filmed with live Egyptian music Hilary explores four rhythms, Wahda Kebira, Maksoum, Saidi and Fallahi. First using the drums alone and then set to music, the DVD also features the songs Na'asa and Baladi with taksim and drum solo, plus finger cymbal instruction. 		   
  

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Hilary Thacker shares her professional experience and knowledge in this Egyptian-style belly dance course which she has specially designed for the intermediate level dancer.

The colorful and charming staging makes learning easy. Each step and movement is clearly explained and demonstrated.

A definite 'must-have' for dancers of all levels, whether you are just learning, or a seasoned dancer keeping up her training.

Hilary is an internationally acclaimed bellydancer based in the UK. Her performances have taken her to many exotic places where she has acquired extensive first-hand knowledge about the dance.

   
  

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Hilary Thacker shares her professional experience and knowledge in this Egyptian-style belly dance course which she has specially designed for the beginner level dancer. The colorful and charming staging makes learning easy. Each step and movement is clearly explained and demonstrated.

Everything a beginner needs to know to enjoy performing!

Hilary is an internationally acclaimed bellydancer based in the UK. Her performances have taken her to many exotic places where she has acquired extensive first-hand knowledge about the dance. 		   
  

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Baglama

If a single instrument was to represent Turkish folk music it would have to be he baglama. There is no region, no village in Anatolia which is not familiar with this string instrument. It is descended from the kopuz, which is frequently mentioned in the sagas of Dede Korkut, dating back to the 8th century.

Baglamas are tuned differently in different regions of Turkey and the structure of he folk song played and the strokes of the plectrum affect the tuning system.