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[alonewiththemoon]

man I adore Fifi Abdo.  I want to be her when I grow up.  Seriously, between her and Azza Sherif, I think I've found the direction I want my Egyptian-style dance to take.

(this doesn't mean I'm breaking up with Dina or anything--I think there's a lot of Fifi in her, in an evolved kind of way.  They're both dancers of the people, at any rate.)

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[nepenthedreams]

ah, dancer crushes :-). I'd like to see Azza. I haven't heard of her. Is she on youtube?

[alonewiththemoon]

I've never found any clips of her on YouTube--there's not a lot of footage of her out there, I think I own all of what's readily available. She retired at about the point where she would have been building top tier status (I have heard either she went to Mecca and took the veil or she was an alcoholic, maybe it's some combination of both), and somebody who knew her told me that she had no business sense whatsoever and thus didn't make the most of the opportunities that came her way. She just wanted to dance.