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Leila Haddad
Leila Haddad who dances her own choreographies both as soloist and with her company, aims above all at proving that oriental dance is a major form of art, very far from the trite cliché of cabaret dance.
She has pioneered a break with convention that has renewed oriental dance. Such revitalizing change that has been the experience of all other dance forms. In the early twentieth century, for example, Ruth Saint-Denis and Isadora Duncan liberated contemporary dance, while Antonia Merce (known as “La Argentina”) transformed flamenco.
There is nothing ethnographic in Leila Haddad’s exploration of original folk dances, as she builds bridges between past and present, and between oriental and modern, even contemporary, dance.
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