{"id":1583,"date":"2011-12-12T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2011-12-12T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:47:37","slug":"hermeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/hermeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermeen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hermeen – Unsung Golden Age Dancer<\/h1>\n
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Hermeen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I adore watching old videos of classic Egyptian dancers. The costuming is so inspirational, and it makes me want to hit the drawing board to create unique and retro designs. Recently, I decided to hunt down a relatively unknown, but extremely accomplished dancer, Hermeen.<\/p>\n

Information about her is quite slim. According to most bios, she was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Armenian descent. \u00a0Hermeen became a professional dancer and appeared in at least 24 movies. Sometimes she was just a dancer, other times she had small acting rolls. She later married her frequent co-star Egyptian actor Shokry Sarhan. \u00a0Other than these few facts, there has been little written about Hermeen.<\/p>\n

What we can tell from surviving video clips is that she was an accomplished and versatile dancer. In the following clips, you will see her dance in a variety of styles including a fantastic Spanish dance with castanets ablaze! There are also examples of her dancing with a cane, and in one scene we catch a glimpse of her flexibility with a few seconds of floor work. Her spins are to die for, she has an amazing range of motion in her hips, and her connection with the music is undeniable.<\/p>\n

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Hermeen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Check out this collection of her videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Kedbet Abril (April Lie), 1954 \u00a0–\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/Y5XIV7EZzFI<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out her back bend, a moment of floor work and swords in this clip from\u00a0Kedbet Abril (April Lie), 1954 –\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/ysShmMcdQT4<\/a><\/p>\n

This clip has an amazing spin sequence! \u00a0From\u00a0Qoloub Al Nas, 1954 –\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/u6uNFx1G4Us<\/a><\/p>\n

In this clip, she dances with a cane \u00a0–\u00a0Aashat Lel Hob (She lived for Love) from 1959 –\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/aTx-OIvXacU<\/a><\/p>\n

And to demonstrate how versatile Hermeen was, here is a Spanish dance: –\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/_9Na_zCr2zU<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out the amazing backbend Hermeen performs in this clip from\u00a0El Donia Lamma Tadhak, 1953 \u00a0 –\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/3sxgXC6J9PM<\/a><\/p>\n

Dance clip from\u00a0Kedt Ahdem Baiti (I Almost Destroyed my Home), 1954 –http:\/\/youtu.be\/7Gd69u6ARYU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Hermeen\"<\/a>

Hermeen – Unsung Golden Age Dancer I adore watching old videos of classic Egyptian dancers. The costuming is so inspirational, and it makes me want to hit the drawing board to create unique and retro designs. Recently, I decided to hunt down a relatively unknown, but extremely accomplished dancer, Hermeen. Information about her is quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-12-at-6.29.04-PM.png?fit=236%2C295&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2YZtR-hermeen","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}