Dancing in Detail: Brooklyn?s Traditional Dances in Practice

?Dancing in Detail: Brooklyn?s Traditional Dances in Practice, 2007-2008? presents each dancer in a brief interview followed by a close, on-the-body dance demonstration. The video was made to create a record representative of traditional dance forms practiced in Brooklyn in the early 21st century.
Below are excerpts of Trinidadian limbo demonstrated by Euston James and Egyptian tannoura performed by Yasser Darwish.

Euston James with Nicholas Charles (drummer), Trinidadian limbo. Video: Treva Wurmfeld

Egyptian tannoura, Yasser Darwish. Video: Treva Wurmfeld