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Medea Mahdavi Dance Co.
e-mail medea@footwork.org

Medea Mahdavi and Philip Walker have published three books under the Footwork imprint. Numerous articles for publication in magazines and newsletters have been written by and about Medea, some examples are listed here. Medea’s work has been the subject of several national and local TV and radio programmes.

Books

Walking with Water (February 2004) is a pictorial record of the arts and education project of the same name which took place in Spring and Summer of 2003.

Ghazala (September 1998) is the first and only directory of Middle Eastern and North African published in the UK.
Fat of the Land (September 2003) is a collection of 31 essays comprising the proceedings of the 2002 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
       

Articles
Articles published in specialist dance, and general arts magazines include:

In Animated (Winter 2002)
Rising above Worlds An exploration of some of the issues surrounding Middle Eastern dance as it is perceived in the UK.

In Proof (Autumn 2000)
The World in or Woods, Medea Mahdavi interviewed by Kate Jago.

In Jareeda (October 2000)
Medea Mahdavi: Classical Persian Dance with a Modern Spirit, interview with Morgana Meg Smith.

In Habibi (Spring 1996 edition)
Raqqas or Jamileh: Contrasting Perspectives on Dance in Iran

Guiding the Ancestors Back: Noh Ruz, The Persian New Year

Videos
Copies of these videos are available for research purposes, on request.

  • ‘Doves’
  • ‘Dancing the Knife’, HTV Year of the Artist programme.
  • ‘Cooking with spinach’ BBC programme with Sophie Grigson.