Iraq Unity Academy Videos
Selection of Videos from Hip Hop, Ballet, Broadway, Symphonic and Jazz performances at American Voices historic Unity Performing Arts Academy in Erbil, Iraq July 13 to 23, 2007
Please also view an ABC Nightly News Report on the Unity Academy.
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Rhythm Nation
Live performance by over 100 dancers from Baghdad, Erbil and Suleimanya, Iraq
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4'20'' | 24083040 | Click to Download |
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I Got Rhythm
Gershwin's immortal song performed by over 100 Iraqi and American dancers and actors
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4'40'' | 21588945 | Click to Download |
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White Lions
A stunning hip hop choreography by the city of Suleimaniya's dance group, The White Lions
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3'57'' | 18385775 | Click to Download |
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Baghdad Ballet
The youthful dancers of Baghdad's School of Music and Dance perform to Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp
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2'40'' | 11768561 | Click to Download |
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Hand Jive
Broadway comes to Iraq in this hit from 'Grease' performed by Erbil's teen theater groups
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3'28'' | 16398198 | Click to Download |
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Wizard of Oz
We're Off to See the Wizard! with Erbil's children's theater groups
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2'30'' | 10535746 | Click to Download |
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Bring 'em Out
Hip Hop takes Erbil by storm in this energetic performance
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3'30'' | 20460518 | Click to Download |
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Forgy Morning in Dillard
The Unity Big Band under Gene Aitken performs this jazz classic
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5'52'' | 37997309 | Click to Download |
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Medley - Chalabia & C-Jam-Blues & Ashgar Bshama
Werner Englert Builds Jazz Bridges to Arabia in these performances with the musicians of the Iraq National Folkdance Company
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8'02'' | 43310991 | Click to Download |
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Kurdish Folk Song
Jazz Bridges to Kurdistan with our jazz students from Erbil and Suleimaniya
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7'08'' | 38444179 | Click to Download |
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Duke Ellington
The Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Gives a Rousing Performances of Ellington's 'It Don't Mean a Thing If It Aint' Got that Swing'
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2'17'' | 11562992 | Click to Download |
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Asa's Tod Grieg
The Iraq National Symphony Orchestra Performs Grieg's 'Asa's Tod' from the 'Peer Gynt Suite'
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4'06'' | 14870165 | Click to Download |
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Requiem
A Moving Performance by the INSO of an Iraqi Requiem conducted by Mohammed Amin
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4'24'' | 20198333 | Click to Download |
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Old Man River
Michael Parks Masterson joins with the INSO to perform this Broadway favorite by Jerome Kern
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3'38'' | 16934776 | Click to Download |
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Unity Youth Orchestra
Allegra Klein leads the Unity Youth Orchestra in a Chamber Orchestra arrangement of an Iraqi Folk Song
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2'02'' | 8790796 | Click to Download |
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Vivaldi Concerto in b Minor
Violinist Marc Thayer leads a chamber orchestra in Iraq's first performance in Baroque Style
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4'27'' | 22141184 | Click to Download |
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Holberg Suite
The Suleimaniya String Orchestra under the baton of Najat Ameen performs excerpts from Grieg's Holberg Suite
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3'05'' | 18480213 | Click to Download |
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Bald Mountain
The Unity Orchestra, uniting Iraq's four symphony orchestras, performs 'Night on Bald Mountain'
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2'45'' | 20879240 | Click to Download |
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Viking Symphony
The Unity Orchestra performs excerpts from Najat Ameen's 'Viking Symphony'
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4'20'' | 26023766 | Click to Download |
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Iraqi Folk Song
The Unity Orchestra performs 'The Iraqi Bolero'! The orchestral arrangement of the folk song, 'Pass By Us When You Leave'
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6'54'' | 38791665 | Click to Download |