Armenian women

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Cathy Berberian

http://www.cathyberberian.com/

Cathy Berberian (Attleboro, Massachusetts, July 4, 1928 - Rome, Italy, March 6, 1983) was a composer, mezzo-soprano singer, and vocalist.

From 1950 to 1966 she was married to composer Luciano Berio, who deconstructed her voice in Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958) and wrote his Circles (1960) and Recital I (for Cathy) (1972) for her. In addition Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Hans Werner Henze and Igor Stravinsky wrote works for her voice.

She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music, Armenian folk songs, Monteverdi, The Beatles, and her own compositions. Her best known work is her Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds.

She is a trivial pursuit question for classic rock fan baby boomers: who is Cathy Berberian in the Steely Dan song "Your Gold Teeth" from the 1973 album Countdown to Ecstacy: "Even Cathy Berberian knows/There's one roulade she can't sing."

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Sergeant Ani A Berberian

Technical Sergeant Ani A. Berberian, clarinet, is a native of Brookings, South Dakota. Ani holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University, the Master of Music degree from Arizona State University and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music/German from South Dakota State University.

Prior to joining the United States Air Force Academy Band in 2003, she served as Professor of Clarinet and Music Theory at Southwest Missouri State University and Artist Faculty at the Missouri Fine Arts Academy from 1999-2002. As an international soloist and chamber musician, Ani has appeared in Norway, Sweden, Poland and Japan, performing in such venues as the Chopin Academy and Samtida Music Festival. She has also appeared at the 2000, 2004, and 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests and numerous US clarinet symposia. She has presented clinics on topics dealing with chamber music performance, clarinet pedagogy and contemporary clarinet techniques at high schools and colleges throughout the United States. An advocate of new music, she has collaborated closely with composers Joan Tower, Libby Larsen, Eric Mandat and Michael Murray. Ani is clarinetist with the Concert Band and the Rampart Winds woodwind quintet.

[Stefi]

barbita, если вы опять, будете выставлять тут проституток и статьи про них, получите предупреждение!!!

[Elena]

Stefi, а по какому праву вы тут кого-то называете проститутками?

[Elena]

Elena а номер аси не скажите этой мадам?

к сожалению не знаю

[Forget-me-not]

Некоторые "красавицы" здесь представленные значительно поднимают мою самооценку :lol:

Хотя топик полезный. Спасибо, barbita Надеюсь, будет продолжение

[Forget-me-not]

Stefi, а по какому праву вы тут кого-то называете проститутками?

Я что-то тоже не поняла где тут были проститутки, а тем более статьи про них...

Или это удалили?

[Stefi]

Stefi, а по какому праву вы тут кого-то называете проститутками?

К вашему сведенью, статья про развратные умения и фото порноактрисы были удалены!

[Stefi]

Я что-то тоже не поняла где тут были проститутки, а тем более статьи про них...

Или это удалили?

Это было удалено

[Elena]

а что тут было, ну покажите хотя бы....

ну Стефи джан...хотя бы в PM

[Stefi]

а что тут было, ну покажите хотя бы....

ну Стефи джан...хотя бы в PM

В PM

[Elena]

Молодец что удалила

[Samwelino]

Что-то странная эта барбита Как-то настораживает то что её интересуют только армянские девушки... Может быть они ей чем-то не угодили...

[Stefi]

Молодец что удалила

Спасиб, джана

[smally]

Tak naoborot chelovek stol'ko poleznogo vilojil! Barbita, molodec! Mne lichno prigoditsya eta informaciya.

[barbita]

smally, СПАСИБО ТЕБЕ БОЛЬШОЕ!!!

[barbita]

вы это о ком? о Christy Canyon? вообще-то она актриса!

(born Melissa Bardizbanian on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, USA) is an American erotic actress.

...

From 1984 to 1997, Canyon appeared in nearly 200 adult films. Canyon has won several "best female performance" awards and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.

...

working as a host for Playboy radio, and selling merchandise on eBay. In 2003, she published her autobiography, "Lights, Camera, Sex" (ISBN 0972747001).

так устроит?

да вообще-то по какому праву , уважаемая, ты называешь ее проституткой?

о каких развратных умениях вы это говорите?

"ловкость рук - никаких особых умений", убедить сама

я считаю, что о такой ЗВЕЗДЕ необходимо упомянуть!

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Elena Bonner

From Armeniapedia.org

Elena Bonner is the wife of the legendary Russian physicist, Soviet-era dissident and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Andrei Sakharov.

Elena's father, Gevork Alikhanov, was a prominent Armenian communist and a secretary of the Comintern, the "general staff of the world revolution." Her Jewish mother, Ruth Bonner, was born in Siberia, joined the Communist Party in 1924, and was dedicated to bringing culture to the masses.

Upon returning to active life from an arduous and long exile in Gorky, Russia, Sakharov and Bonner campaigned tirelessly in defense of self-determination for the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh and for all the peoples of the former Soviet Union.

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Zarouhi (Holopigian)

From Armeniapedia.org

Atlanticville, NJ Aug 18 2005

Sharing the art and beauty of 'undulating' Belly dancing is emotional, communicative, dignified, Zarouhi says BY SUE M. MORGAN Staff Writer

SUE MORGAN Photo: Professional belly dancer and instructor Zarouhi shows her students how to move to the beat of Egyptian folk music and dance with colorful, swirling veils during one of her classes.

To be a good belly dancer requires soulful expression using isolations of circular and undulating movements of the body, according to Zarouhi, a professional dance artist.

"A good belly dancer must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity," Zarouhi said, quoting Tahia Carioca, a famous Egyptian dancer in the 1950s.

Carioca's words contrast with the image of belly dancing that Zarouhi, named for her great-grandmother, grew up with as a child in an Armenian family living in Bergen County.

In those days, her uncles would often gossip and snicker over certain belly dancers they had seen perform in New York City nightclubs. The album covers of the Middle Eastern music associated with belly dancing that she enjoyed listening to at home often featured photographs of scantily dressed women, creating the impression that the dance itself was scandalous at best.

Yet Zarouhi, while training in ballet, tap, jazz and other techniques, still thought outside of the harem when it came to watching belly dancers perform. Rather, she perceived its undulations of stomach and hips as emotional, communicative, graceful, and most of all beautiful. And yes, dignified.

Today, Zarouhi, known informally as "Z," is convinced she had it right all along. The Fair Haven resident now shares Carioca's words with her students who come to learn how to circle their hips slowly, take a step at a time while allowing a long veil to flow behind them, and even walk like a camel.

"Belly dance is my life and breath," Zarouhi said. "This is my passion."

Having studied and performed belly dancing since the 1970s on both coasts with a variety of nationally and internationally known dance artists, choreographed routines, and even judged competitions, Zarouhi now instructs women from all walks of life to grab a hip scarf and long veil, pick up the finger cymbals and move to the rhythms of various stringed instruments and drums.

Students come to her classes, now offered at Fair Haven's Go Figure 4U and other facilities, mainly for exercise, but also to let go of stress and to enjoy moving to the music, Zarouhi said.

"I'm passing on and presenting an art form," said Zarouhi, who also performs at nightclubs, private parties, weddings, and other venues. "It's learning to move your body in response to different sounds."

One class description written by Zarouhi indicates that students learn how to use the entire body in harmony with music and respond emotionally to the drumbeats and instruments they hear. Belly dancing in short "leads to increased flexibility, agility, stamina, grace, and generally tones the body," the course description reads.

"Whatever you want, we welcome you to class," Zarouhi said. "Students come in all shapes and sizes and come from all ethnic backgrounds and are all ages."

Unlike some exercise classes, prospective students do not need any dance or athletic training. Nor do would-be students necessarily look like they spend all their time working out at a commercial gym, Zarouhi explained.

"I've even taught men," Zarouhi said.

To give them more of an authentic feel, students wear decorative, colorful hip scarves with hanging silver or gold coins that jingle when the dancers perform certain steps. Later in the course, Zarouhi also adds in work with finger cymbals and of course the flowing veils. Her technique and style are Egyptian, she added.

While six of her advanced students have begun performing locally in public for family and friends, Zarouhi understands that everyone who comes to her classes has a different goal.

"I want my students to be the best they can be," she said.

The dance's isolated movements touch many of the body's nerve endings, which makes it a way of relieving stress and reviving energy, Zarouhi points out.

"It uses so many parts of your body," she said. "It transcends energy throughout your body."

Even if students begin a class stressed out from work, parenting and other responsibilities, they usually leave an hour later feeling more alert and energetic, Zarouhi pointed out

"It touches you and emotionally awakens you," she said.

Despite her nearly 30 years of study, and unlike ballet or tap, there is no known formal certification for belly dance, said Zarouhi, whose personal training with internationally known artists provides her background.

The term "belly dancing" comes from the French "du ventre" meaning "of the stomach," a reference to the undulating, in-and-out movements made by the dancer's waistline, Zarouhi explained.

Professional dancers often use the term "danse orientale" in homage to the times when the Middle Eastern portion of Asia was once considered part of the larger Orient and the Far East, she said.

Before learning belly dance, Zarouhi trained also in Afro Caribbean, East Indian and other international dances. Yet it was when she performed in an Armenian song-and-dance ensemble that the young artist's love and curiosity about belly dance was awakened.

One night, as a member of the ensemble, Zarouhi shared the stage with Rafael and Juliana, New York City's top belly-dancing team at that time, who caused quite a stir.

While attending a party months later, Zarouhi watched awestruck as a beautiful blonde undulated to Middle Eastern music "in a way I'd never seen."

Upon inquiring as to the dancer's identity, Zarouhi learned that the performer was a belly dancer who was famous in her native France.

"I knew I had to dance that way," Zarouhi said of the French dancer.

Many years of practicing yoga turned out to be instrumental in creating movements called "embellishments," while learning the actual belly dance steps, Zarouhi said.

Street fairs, concerts, dance festivals and Renaissance fairs on the West Coast offer more outlets for professional and amateur belly dancers, said Zarouhi, who returned to New Jersey five years ago. Through teaching and performing, she hopes to raise awareness of the art form and see similar venues for the dance come about outside of New York City.

Joining with several of the musicians that accompany her performances, Zarouhi and business partner Chris Marashlian of Toms River have formed Creative Artists Productions, as a means of promoting belly dancing and the rhythmic music that features bass guitar, violins and Middle Eastern instruments such as the oud, kanoon, and the tabla, a type of drum.

On Tuesday, the company will showcase Zarouhi, her six advanced students, and another professional dancer known as Aisha in an evening of "Middle Eastern Music and Dance," featuring Marashlian, a bass guitarist, and other musicians at Elements at 1072 Ocean Avenue in Sea Bright. The event, running from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., is open to the public; tickets are available from [email protected].

Creative Artists is now working on a compact disc of Middle Eastern music, which can be used by belly dance students.

And now, it is Zarouhi who is on the cover, Marashlian said.

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Alicia Ghiragossian

From Armeniapedia.org

Poet Alicia Ghiragossian of Glendale has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, making her the first person of Armenian descent ever nominated in any of the categories. "At times, I feel like I'm walking on clouds --- I have not totally awakened to the fact that I've been nominated," she said. She was born in Argentina to Armenian parents and has made her home in Glendale for 18 years. Although this writer is not widely known in the United States, she has been published regularly in Armenia since 1067, and is one of that country's national treasures. Her nomination was supported by hundreds of intellectuals and the highest representatives of the Republic of Armenia, headed by the president of the nation, Dr. Levon Ter-Petrossian, as well as the presidents of the National Academy and others. "I've been loved and honored by the Armenian people for three decades," she said. Ghiragossian also said that she likes to spend her free time with her 23-year-old daughter Lara, who is a political science major at San Francisco State.

Paul Clinton's article in the Glendale News Press on Sep/6/96

Diana Der-Hovanessian

From Armeniapedia.org

Cambridge (MA) poet Diana Der-Hovanessian got some far-flung publicity recently. Her book, "Selected Poems," was being given out on Minnesota Public Radio to donors of $66 during its recent fund-raisier. Der-Hovanessian said she heard about it from her publisher, Sheep Meadow Press in New York. "I guess it's because of Garrison Keillor; he uses things from my books on `Writer's Almanac,'" she said, referring to his syndicated morning show, which is not carried in Boston. Keillor often reads the poem "Shifting the Sun." Der-Hovanessian is president of the New England Poetry Club.

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Anahid Aramouni

Anahid Aramouni teaches Armenian Language and Literature courses as part of the Grigor Narekatsi Chair of the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC). Dr. Aramouni is a member of the Society for Armenian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Arvest Art and Literary Association. From 1970 to 1977 she was a member of the Literary and Theatrical Divisions of the Etchmiadzin Cultural Center. Anahid Aramouni received her BA in Armenology from the University of La Verne in 1993. She received her MA in Philology from Yerevan State University in 1997 and in 1999 she received her Ph.D. in Philology, from the Institute of Literature of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. From 1980 to 1987 she served as the executive of the Art and Literature Division of the Armenian Society of Los Angeles. From 1986 to 1988 Aramouni was the executive editor of the 80s Literary Group. In 1999-2000 she has been honored by the UCLA Armenian Student Association for her dedication to teaching with the Person of the Year Award.

Anahid Keshishian Aramouni was born in Iran and repatriated to Armenia in 1970. From 1975 to 1979, Aramouni worked as a researcher at the Museum of Ararat Valley in Etchmiadzin and in 1977 she became a Certified Researcher of the Armenian Ethnographic Museum. From 1977 to 1979 she worked as a member of the excavation team for burial sites at St. Hripsime, Metzamor and Vagharshapat, for the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography. From 1984 to 1986 Anahid Aramouni worked as the assistant manager of the Armenian Observer. In 1986 she became the editor of the 80s Social Literary Magazine. From 1987 to 1988 she worked as a research associate at the Armenian History Archives of the Armenian Review, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1989 she became the Curriculum Developer of the Davitian-Marimian Educational Foundation. In 1997 Anahid Aramouni became a lecturer at the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures where she presently offers courses in the Armenian Language and Literature.

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Aracy Balabanian

Greatest Brazilian actress- cinema, theater & TV

[Stefi]

вы это о ком? о Christy Canyon? вообще-то она актриса!

(born Melissa Bardizbanian on June 17, 1966 in Pasadena, California, USA) is an American erotic actress.

...

From 1984 to 1997, Canyon appeared in nearly 200 adult films. Canyon has won several "best female performance" awards and is a member of the XRCO Hall of Fame.

...

working as a host for Playboy radio, and selling merchandise on eBay. In 2003, she published her autobiography, "Lights, Camera, Sex" (ISBN 0972747001).

так устроит?

да вообще-то по какому праву , уважаемая, ты называешь ее проституткой?

о каких развратных умениях вы это говорите?

"ловкость рук - никаких особых умений", убедить сама

я считаю, что о такой ЗВЕЗДЕ необходимо упомянуть!

Уважаемая, вы получаете предупреждение!

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мама и жена президента Ливана - Emile Lahoud, (President of Lebanon, former Lebanese general who united the religious factions of the Lebanese army.

Lahoud is half Armenian and his wife is full Armenian. )

ну и многих др. полит деятелей: Зураба Жвании и т.д.

мама мистика Гурдиева (GI Gurdjieff) (Armenian(mother)/Greek)

мама GARRY KIMOVICH KASPAROV (Armenian(m)/Jewish)

( Chess Ranked #1 in world. Serving in Russian Parliament. Was defeated for the first time by a chess computer built by IBM.)

мама Alain Marie Pascal Prost (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France, is one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time. During his Formula One career, which lasted from 1980 to 1993, he won 51 Grands Prix (a record until Michael Schumacher overtook this total in 2001) and won four World Drivers Championships. )

Allen and Albert Hughes (Their mother is Armenian their father is Black This directing duo known as the Hughes Brothers has directed American Pimp, Menace II Society and Dead Presidents.)

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[Angel Boyz]

а я понял про что она говорит,2-ая фотка и статья была..всё верно!