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Moha-El-Hocine Achibane: The Ahidous legend |
Collection title
Màha El Hocine AchibaneID
SNR00167Source
SNRT (MA)First broadcast date
03/02/2005Production year
2005Abstract
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
videoProduction companies
- SNRT - Own production
Broadcaster
SNRT - AlAoulaAudiovisual form
DocumentaryPersonalities
- Moha El Hocine Achibane Ahidous' band chief
- El Idrissi Abdelaziz Professor researcher
Primary theme
Music and songsSecondary 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
ArabicMedia running time
25m18Additional information
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