Almée
Almée , of Arabic âlmet (“erudite”), designates an Indian woman who makes profession improvise Towards, to sing and dance in the festivals, while being accompanied by the Flûte, the Castagnette S or the Cymbale S.
They were selected among the most beautiful girls, and received a neat education. They were often called at the large ones to brighten the feasts.
The artists orientalists were often inspired by it for exalter a certain erotism released by the type by the Eastern dancer (just as the Odalisque S for the type of the woman to the hammam):
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Jean-Leon Gérôme (1824 - 1904): Almées playing failures (1870);
- Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901): dancing Goulue - Moorish Dance (Almées) (1895);
- Alice Guy (1873 - 1698): Short-measuring entitled Dance of the step of the scarves by almées (1900);
- Pierre Louis Bouchard: almées the ;
- Georges Bizet: Dance of Almées (1875), part for piano.
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