This footage is from a street performance at the 1904 St. Louis Expo:

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From the description on the site:
Princess Rajah performs an "Oriental" or belly dance, and a balancing chair act in her teeth like that often found in folk performances in various cultures from Northern Africa to Greece. Shot outdoors in a street scene at the St ( Read more... )

I just pinned 10 yards of ribbon to the hem of a new skirt I picked up at Goodwill.

It's not enough.

NOT! ENOUGH!

I think I'm only two-thirds of the way around.

Alas, this means that I shall have to visit Hobby Lobby again, tomorrow.

There was a photographer at the hafla on Tuesday night, who managed to get a really cool shot of me during my routine!


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I'm watching Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel, and they're in Istanbul, showing male bellydancers.

They've dressed Andrew Zimmern in the tassel belt/skirt and got him shaking his stuff with a professional troupe.

I saw a bunch of girls walking around in some seriously tasseled-out bellydance garb, yesterday. When I ran into one them in the elevator, I asked if she did ATS ( Read more... )

We started picking music for the summer choreography, this evening. I hadn't brought a cd, as all the music was stuck on my computer with its busted cd burner. So, when I got home, I sent everyone a bunch of YouTube links, instead. (;

One piece I would really like to do is a duet to Alanis Morissette's Uninvited. It's kind of a creepy-neat ( Read more... )

Thank you for the mojo, people! That, along with the miso soup got me through the hafla without barfing! Yay!!!!

I even ran for awhile on the adrenaline high, but then I crashed rather hard, and came home after only a little bit of socializing. (omg, that seemed like the longest three mile drive home, EVAR.  o_O )

My subterfuge worked, and only ( Read more... )

As I was driving home from class, last night, listening to my sweet little mp3 player, I had the most fabulous idea to choreograph a trio to Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

1. I will be in town, tonight, after all ( Read more... )

Spring Hafla

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