The Story
Discover the history of ancient Egypt as told through these beautiful dances.
Press Release An excellent overview of the production.
Premiere in Germany: Review Egypta first appeared on stage in 1996. Find out more about this early production.
Photos from the Field Museum Silk Road Dance Company presented selections from Egypta at the Chicago Field Museum.
Egypta Visits the West Coast Silk Road Dance Co. performed selections from Egypta for a gala event at Warner Bros. Studios
and at a concert in Van Nuys.
April 2003: Silk Road Dance Company dances selections from
Egypta to help the Chicago Field Museum launch a new exhibit
of Egyptian art.
Peasants celebrate the harvest
as the god Horus carries the sun across the sky.
Silk Road presented a 20-minute program for press and VIPs
after dancing and posting for TV spots with local news crews
to celebrate the opening of the exhibit, which features artifacts
from the British Museum on tour for the first time.
Dancers pose in the middle
of a joyful banquet dance.
Recreating a scene of worship
around a 5,000 year old statue of the goddess Sekhmet in the musem's
permanent collection.
Nuit, the sky goddess carries
the solar disk at night.
Building the pyramids.
Cleopatra takes a snake from
a basket borne by her handmaidens.
