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The blessings of heaven granted to humanity represented in the Sea of Music through the turns of the Dervishes of Cairo (06/07/2008)

Founded to preserve and disseminate traditional and popular Egyptian music and especially dancing Sufis, the Dervishes of Cairo, coming to the festival La Mar de Músicas to demonstrate their culture.

The group The Dervishes of Cairo are over forty dancers practicing the dance tannoura, named after the name of the skirt they wear and helps them to rotate on its axis, facilitating altered states of consciousness and mystical ecstasy, seeing God in every twist and identified with the rhythmic motion of all that exists.

The show will be at 22:00 pm in the Town Hall square.

It's free.

Dervishes of Cairo is training more than 40 members including dancers and musicians.

His strength and his marvelous ability to concentrate in dance, and the brilliant performance of music and trance rhythms has made them one of the groups of more security inside and outside the country.

Music is one of the most important practices of Sufism, a spiritual movement that part of the quest for inner enlightenment from the remembrance of God and longing.

Sufism is, therefore, the mystical branch, philosophical, scientific and poetic Islam.

The dance of the Dervishes of Cairo from the Mevlevi dervishes, who lived in Cairo since the fourteenth century in tekiyya, or alms house, near the citadel.

The last group of dervishes who left Cairo in 1940, said that pressure from an administration that is suspicious of his mysticism and suspected of possible involvement in political activities.

In their turns, the dervishes, meditate with the right hand extended to infinity and the left hand to the ground, symbolizing the blessings of heaven given to mankind.

Thus, the dancer becomes a mediator between heaven and earth, an energy channel is pierced by the divine energy.

The most advanced experience and achieve mystical states of contemplation.

The dances of the dervishes are combined with percussion instruments, wind, swinging strings and rhythmic breaths (ESMA).

Between inhalation and exhalation are pronounced ninety-nine names of Allah The ceremony ends with the reading of the Koran.

Ocean Film Begins

The cycle The Sea Film the magazine Cahiers du Cinema in Spain has done for the festival, to be presented to the media as Monday, the film begins with the prestigious L'Barge French director Claire Denis.

The projections are in the Nuevo Teatro Circo Cartagena, at 19:30.

Admission is free.

L'Intrus (The Intruder)

Director: Claire Denis.

2004.

France.

Duration: 130 minutes.

Screenplay: Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, on the memoirs of Jean-Luc Nancy.

Production: Humbert Balsan.

Photo: Agnès Godard.

Music: Stuart Staples.

Cast: Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva, Florence Loiret, Lolita Chammah, Bambou, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas

SYNOPSIS

A French citizen, and sixties, pulls out a large sum of money from a Swiss bank to cover his heart transplant.

After the operation, traveling to South Korea to discuss plans to build the boat of your dreams.

Later, the man will continue with a trip to Tahiti in search of a lost child.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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