The video came in the mail today ( Read more... )

ZenFest was hot ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmm practice.
It would have been lessons but they both cancelled.
So practice - drills, and isolations, and isolation drills, and dancing, and Improv, and dancing, and conditioning, then more dancing.

The sharp quick stuff is seeming less painful - mentally anyway. And my left forward shoulder square is dreadful. But the more Improv I practice, ( Read more... )

I tried to practice today ( Read more... )

Just saw my performance from the Hips Noir V show....

I don't hate it, but...

And there are definitely some new good things going on in it but.....

....still.

Watched a practice video of myself last night and OMG my posture is horrible! And I was tucking my arms too much ( Read more... )

With the rising popularity of bellydance, and the rising fame of dancers like Ansuya, Rachel Brice, and Sharon Kihara (amongst so many others), there are more and more aspiring dancers fighting for the same jobs.
On one hand, this is awesome - more competition, in theory, should raise the general quality level of performers. The more commonplace ( Read more... )

Class last night - shimmy layer warm up, Layer of the Week, the Sera Combo, drills, arms, and cool down. I've discovered I love getting techy with advanced students on technique - things like keeping at hip down at the end of a hip drop to give it more gravity, and the opposite with chest pops - keeping them lifted at the end of the pop to give it ( Read more... )

Class last night was lovely. We did the Pisa combo, then touches back to Sera Cyclone from last week, then fluttered back and forth between the two, and during a particularly quick song we transitioned into drills, then back into the combos.
Good stuff. Gives me ideas for future teaching.

Went over solo dancing stuff once I got everyone ushered out ( Read more... )

I have a lot of stuff to get done this week - all of it fairly important, and all of which will need to get spaced out adequately so that I don't go crazy trying to get it all done at the last minute...

My goals for today:
• Update my gig notebook.
• Gym
• Finalize costuming for Saturday
• Practice - including drills, and going over music for Saturday, ( Read more... )