It is much more easier to get to know the art of any People, if to try to be imbued with the Heart of this People and with its Philosophy.
In the process of the teaching practice I made sure that this point in fact gives rise to the great interest of the public.

The culture(3) of the Orient Peoples is very rich and beautiful. But, unfortunately, it isn’t very much intelligible for the majority of representatives of the “European” society.

In the point of fact, one of the main reasons of lack of understanding – this is “the deficiency in information about the object of attention”. The absence of information or the distorted information also put obstacles on the way of understanding.

It is just that point, which leads to tearing away and to discords between people, groups, races, etc. It is just on that ground there are put obstacles and elevated the walls between them.

In case, if it isn’t “the Principle game “I don’t want understand”, it is possible to understand everything.
It will be enough to collect more information about it.
But it is important to consider on which points you accent your attention when collecting the information, since it is possible to make both the attractive selection of facts and the repellent one.

And what kind of information about the Orient Peoples has the overwhelming majority of representatives of the “European” society at the present moment?

Unfortunately, there exists a large gap at this space.
And the information, which is received by means of media, in general has the negative, destroying character. It is clear that this is just the manifest of Intention of those, who give the information to masses, and a good way to involve the public in their “Game”, - if to take the comparison of the Life with the Game.

But is this Game really that one, which people would like to play?
And if to try to realize the following point: “What we, People, do now, will turn into “the Cultural Heritage” (4) and will be inherited by our children”, then …which “games” we really wish to play?

May be “Feeling and Love” is also an interesting “Game”?
May be “Understanding” and “The Beauty of Relations” – these are excellent?

“The sincere wish to understand” and “the Intercourse” bring to “the Understanding”. And “The Intercourse on the level of the Art” breaks even the language obstacles.

The Art of the Dance is an integral part of the Culture of the Orient Peoples.
And one of the main purposes of the Program “Harakat” is to bring to people by means of the Art the Information about the Beauty and Multiformity of this Culture.

At the given moment there is carried on the work at the formation of the School “Harakat” in Ukraine.
And I hope very much that this will be a modest contribution in such games as “Understanding”, and “Feeling and Love”.

With Love,
M e r i a m

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1. Art – creative reflection, reproduction of the idea in images (“Explanatory Russian Dictionary” by Ozhegov, 1st definition)

4. Heritage – phenomenon of the spiritual life, mode of life, having been inherited, apprehended from the previous generations, forerunners (“Explanatory Russian Dictionary” by Ozhegov, 1st definition)