Moha-El-Hocine Achibane: The Ahidous legend

SNR00167
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Moha-El-Hocine Achibane: The Ahidous legend

Collection title

Màha El Hocine Achibane

ID

SNR00167

Source

SNRT (MA)

First broadcast date

03/02/2005

Production year

2005

Abstract

The U.S. president Reagan called El-Hocine Achibane “the Maestro” when he saw him at Disney world in the United States, during an artistic tour in which the “Atlas Eagle” gained the admiration of the American people. The Maestro’s name was linked with a dance called “Ahidous”, a popular exhibition art famous in the Middle Atlas for many centuries. According to researchers, it is a dance performed by men and women in a circular pool to express a mass joy to celebrate the peasants’ life in the mountains and plains, in the region of the Middle Atlas. Despite his age reaching ninety years, Moha-Walhoucine Achibane is still able to move on stage with a young man’s agility and lightness : he is an artist who summarizes Morocco’s rich heritage of music and art, a magic country, diverse with its geography, civilization and artistic components. In spite of his worldwide fame, the Maestro is still living with his two wives and his family in his remote simple village in the Atlas.

Type

video

Production companies

  • SNRT - Own production

Broadcaster

SNRT - AlAoula

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Personalities

  • Moha El Hocine Achibane Ahidous' band chief
  • El Idrissi Abdelaziz Professor researcher

Primary theme

Music and songs

Secondary themes

  • Landscapes and environment
  • Society and way of life / Family and related

Credits / Cast

  • Mohamed Reda Elleili - Director

Period of events

  • 2005

Map locations

  • Morocco - Atlas mountains - Khenifra
  • Morocco - Atlas mountains - El-Kebab

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

25m18

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