Currently showing: Four videos. Accidental Altars. Dance Triptychs.
A glimpse
Style: Egyptian Raqs Baladi
Monica's post-performance dance along with the fine folks attending Salon Hala, San Francisco, Summer 2024.
Show produced by Mama Ganuush
Video by Jeff Vengeance
Venue is Queer Arts Featured
Style: Pan-Mediterranean / Experimental Folkloric
Monica performs an Arab/southern Italian piece at the Brava Theater in San Francisco.
Fall 2024
Sponsored by The Hala Collective
Style: Freeform / Experimental folk
A moment to the sounds of the street as I cleaned out a cabinet at a studio I had taught at for over 20 years.
Style: Egyptian raqs sharqi and raqs baladi
Well, not the DAY day, but another day. Live set with Sirocco in 2008.
August 3, 2008, San Leandro, California
Dancer: Monica of San Francisco Musicians: Armando Mafufo, Paul Ohanesian, Michael Gruber
Producer: Tatseena
Some altars I make on purpose, some I see by accident.
Snippets from a dance life, in threes.
Photos by Jeff K. at Salon Hala
Photos by Carl Sermon