Me volunteering to dance in a function

[Laila]

ohhhh AMAZING! proud of you!

Was it for Cultural Day or something?

[spogmai shaglay]

Beautiful Samima..... i loved it especially when the pashtun music starts..... and i want to own one of these beautiful attire....Pishwaaz as it is known as i guess....

may i ask on what occasion did u all perform this???

[spogmai shaglay]

Samima i really loved.. and i am going to save to it learn it and teach my sis and cousins tooo.........will u help me?????

[Laila]

I've done it to represent Afghan culture on many occasions. Even in the Gym..I love my culture.

did you really like it or are you just saying that to make me happy...?

Nice, of course i liked it. Actually, I loved it. I am so proud of anyone that does something like this to represent our culture, especially when many others can learn and experience from it.

[Laila]

If you do not mind, may i add something?

[Laila]

^ Okay...when you girls have the qataghani music...you girls should most definitely do the qataghani dance. Like in the second or third song that was playing...two girls should pair up each, and do qataghani with one another...but form a circle all together. It will look really nice.



Are these the same girls here:

YouTube - Afghan girls-attan

[spogmai shaglay]

Great....i will love to see it toooo.......may be i can do something similar in my college tooo....at least show a glimpse to my college what my culture is about...so i will be saving this video and also more that u share...

Thanks Samima for ur respect....i would love to learn from u.....and to tell u i have learned a lot from every member here in PF including u....and here i am only Spogmai, a family member... whatever we are to the world, whatever designation we have in the outer world, we our just ourselves when with our family....so in PF family only Spogmai.....

Manana Samima.....

[Laila]

laila many of the girls that were good dancers refused to dance..they were too shy..they wanted too and we didnt have much rehearsal time..i know it was horrible. but I tried, i couldnt let our culture not be represented. its really hard to be on stage laila.

No Sammo...i am quite impressed by it. It was well put. You girls did very well, i have to tell you that i am so proud of you. Really, i am.

I know how it feels to be on stage. You get so nervous right when the music starts, and your stomach feels like its being twisted...and you feel like you regret agreeing to it, and feel like running away from stage. Believe me, i know the feeling. But i am proud of you to sticking to it, and representing us.

Afareen jan

[Laila]

Great....i will love to see it toooo.......may be i can do something similar in my college tooo....at least show a glimpse to my college what my culture is about...so i will be saving this video and also more that u share...

Thanks Samima for ur respect....i would love to learn from u.....and to tell u i have learned a lot from every member here in PF including u....and here i am only Spogmai, a family member... whatever we are to the world, whatever designation we have in the outer world, we our just ourselves when with our family....so in PF family only Spogmai.....

Manana Samima.....

Spogmai, if you would like, i can help you too.

[Mayana]

^ Okay...when you girls have the qataghani music...you girls should most definitely do the qataghani dance. Like in the second or third song that was playing...two girls should pair up each, and do qataghani with one another...but form a circle all together. It will look really nice.

Lailo gakem, isn't what you're describing there Qarsak? =/
The way I know it, that dance has a special tune to it, as well, the melody is played such that after a certain period in time (usually from one chorus to another) the pair sits down and another pair gets up. There are certain Qarsak songs, such as Qarsak Panjsher, Asheq'e Dokhtar'e Khaana, Charkh bezan etc. to which one dances such,

Qataghani is danced individually rather than in pairs.. and one isn't surrounded by a circle.. you know the regular dancing on the dance floor at weddings, as far as I know =/


But then, of course, our culture is so intertwined that there are no separating lines. However, this is how I know our dances..
Qarsak - group sits in a circle, one pair dances in the middle
Qataghani - people dance individually
Logari - stopdance, you dance and stop when the music stops, occasionally squat..
Attan - step dance in a circle.. we all know and love it <3

[Laila]

Lailo gakem, isn't what you're describing there Qarsak? =/
The way I know it, that dance has a special tune to it, as well, the melody is played such that after a certain period in time (usually from one chorus to another) the pair sits down and another pair gets up. There are certain Qarsak songs, such as Qarsak Panjsher, Asheq'e Dokhtar'e Khaana, Charkh bezan etc. to which one dances such,

Qataghani is danced individually rather than in pairs.. and one isn't surrounded by a circle.. you know the regular dancing on the dance floor at weddings, as far as I know =/


But then, of course, our culture is so intertwined that there are no separating lines. However, this is how I know our dances..
Qarsak - group sits in a circle, one pair dances in the middle
Qataghani - people dance individually
Logari - stopdance, you dance and stop when the music stops, occasionally squat..
Attan - step dance in a circle.. we all know and love it <3

LOL ha ha no i was talking about qataghani. What many do, is pair up with someone and dance qataghani. As you are doing maida maida, the person you are with, is also doing it with you. But opposite of you. Such as i am doing my qataghani, and you are doing your qataghani in your own way. I have seen many girls do it with guys. I had gone to a wedding in Kabul. And what the families did was there was a big circle. And each girl had a guy in pairs. And they would do qataghani with each other. Its hard to explain lol

Also qataghani is also meant to be a funny dance, when you kind do the oddest maida maida moves. That is why you will see many men doing the funniest things in qataghani dance.

Qarsak is totally different. Everyone is in a full circle, dancing around clapping. Then they all squat, and clap forward up and down. Then one person goes up to the middle and dances their own moves....while the people still in the circle are still clapping, WHOOing and whistling

[Mayana]

Ohhhh haha ok ok I misunderstood you. Yeah, Qataghani has an amusing effect.
It also makes me want to take the keyboard and smash it on the singers head after the 7th time a Qataghani tune is played at a wedding. But that's a whole different story LOOL

[Laila]

^LOL its okay

ha ha Mayana jan, in Kabul, the whole wedding night they play qataghani over and over again lol

But now, there is a new style of qataghani moves...its a little bit slower, cant explain lol

and remember, you do not spin in qataghani dance

[Laila]

here is a great example of qataghani

YouTube - Rameen & Omar Sharif's New Qataghani Song AFGHAN SONG

only thing is, your not really supposed to spin....though many still do

[Mayana]

I don't dance Qataghani, ever.
The only Qataghani I ever dance to is Hamelaket ba Gardan.. And I'm not gonna lie, I spin while dancing that. But that only because he speficially says "Allah tu Charkhe bezan dami Saaze Qataghan" <3