Tag: Dabaka

Adham Wanly, Nocturne Dabaka Dancers 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2i

Mar 12, 2019

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Zaidan Art Blog

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The dabka, literally ‘stamping of the feet’ is a type of line dance popular at weddings and celebrations throughout the Middle East. In Wanly’s work the figures are gracefully depicted, appearing almost to float across the canvas. Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was an Egyptian painter who learnt in the atelier of the…