{"id":178,"date":"2010-11-17T01:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-11-17T01:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T08:17:01","slug":"arabella-dance-queen-of-the-mahala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Arabella, Dance Queen of the Mahala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ut6nmjLCkpw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ut6nmjLCkpw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Arabella, denim-clad dance sensation of the <em>mahala<\/em> is mocked by her family and neighbors for her modern &#8220;disco&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romani.org\/romdance.html\">Romani style of dance<\/a>. While her father entertains with hoots and jeers, the mahala laughs but also watches. Perhaps in a few years, the children circling her now will dance as she does, learning, much the way she did: village gatherings, impromptu parties, adults twirling, swaying and shimmying around them. Little gestures caught by the eyes and heart. Arabella is the descendant of master interpreters; her legacy, to create new languages of movement. A lineage stretching from Rajasthan to Romania made up of bits and pieces of everywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Traditional <em>Romanes<\/em> mixes with the bumps, grinds and pops of the video vixens Arabella watches on satellite TV. The result is a fusion of old and new, rooted, looking back and moving forward and infused with the swing of her ancestors. Called forth by two polyrhythmic violins and a syncopated bass doubling as a drum, Arabella&#8217;s hips offer tiny kisses to the wind. Around her, the Rajasthani\/Romanian sands rise and warm her body, preparing it for the long night of revelry.<\/p>\n<p>Beyonce and Shakira have nothing on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabella, denim-clad dance sensation of the mahala is mocked by her family and neighbors for her modern &#8220;disco&#8221; Romani style of dance. While her father entertains with hoots and jeers, the mahala laughs but also watches. Perhaps in a few years, the children circling her now will dance as she does, learning, much the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doslunares.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}