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From Many Tribes

The Origins of Bal Anat

by Jamila Salimpour

When I moved to Berkeley, California in 1967, it was alive with students who, stimulated by the Indian music of Ravi Shankar, were ready to listen to and look at yet another foreign import from the Middle East.

Jamila continued teaching in several locations in the area.

Jamila continued teaching in several locations in the area.

Jamila had spent many years dancing in restaurants where she meticulously studied, recorded and named the movements of her fellow dancers and their different.

Tired of traveling back and forth between two cities, Jamila decided to move to San Francisco permanently.

The first club I danced at was the Bagdad on Broadway, as Jamila Salimpour, my teacher, used to have student nights there, having been the previous owner.

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The reaction to my dance ads was encouraging, and I watched as students absorbed the movements and transitions, and began responding to the music. As my teaching techniques became more refined from the experience of teaching four classes each week, the students began to learn more quickly.

Three of my teenage students who were attending Berkeley High at the time taught what they had learned to all their girlfriends, and they in turn taught all their girlfriends. The ensuing result was spontaneity, yes, technique, no—but nobody seemed to care!

I was told that they were asked and did perform for their friends, but they were by no means “ready” to dance publicly.