| Cinema |
Cinema
Tunisian cinema was born on a
particularly fertile ground, nurtured by a love of cinema and
admiration for the great works of world cinema. As early as 1922,
Samama Chikly, a forerunner of Tunisian cinema and a dabbler
who shot the first submarine and aerial (from a hot-air balloon)
pictures, made a short fiction film ("Zohra") and
the medium-length "Aïn el Ghazel" in 1924,
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| Dance | Dance in Tunisia
Tribal sword dance
Dancing with swords is an ancient skill in
North-Africa. Especially bedouin dancers of the sahara used to do it
as a sing of the women that they carry the honour of their husband.
Some tribes had sword dancers at their wedding to bring good luck. A
few paintings and engravings of the french artist Jean-Léon
Gérôme (who stayed in Egypt in the 18 th century) show
sword dancers balancing an sabre on their head.
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| Plastic Arts | Plastic Arts
In Tunisia, the sculpture knew its hour of glory at the Roman reign. Nowadays, it is less practiced by the Tunisian artists in spite of the presence of sculptors of talent such as Marzouk and Hedi Selmi, whose several works appear in the museum of modern art of Tunis. It is the pictorial art which is most representative of the visual arts.
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| Theater | Theater
The theater started to belong to cultural landscape of the country at the beginning of the XXème century, partly thanks
to the contact théatreavec the Masters of the Egyptian theater come at the time to Tunisia. This report quickly gave rise to a pleiad of theatrical figures which dissociated European theater, already present in the country, by a claiming conscience of the Tunisian and Arab identity.
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Tunisia Music has earned a
popularity among a wide audience base. Music of Tunisia is
well known in the world for a particular kind of music known as
Malouf. This genre of Tunisian music bears similarities to the
types of music prevalent in other North African countries.
