and, dancey bits
IU's paper published an article on me and my dance troupe today... and it's actually not too bad. I've come to have really low expectations for anything that goes into newspaper print, mostly due to horrendous experiences of being mis-quoted, mis-treated, having things published without my permissions, and so on. But this article seems... insipid... for lack of a better word. Now to see how many of my students actually notice and talk to me about it.
Today I mailed in a performer application for Gothla US. I decided that even if I'm busy with exams next semester, it's really important to me to be able to get more involved with the dance community. So, with any luck, my metaphorical dance of metamorphosis, "Butterfly," will appear on a stage in SoCal in February.
Also, for my dance research, I am reading a volume of essays edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, titled Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, & Harem Fantasy. It's been really interesting so far, and I would recommend it to both dancers and scholars. My main problem with it is that the editing is horrible--I've encountered dozens of typos in the two hundred pages I've read so far, which is really a shame. I don't know whether I'd want my work appearing in something so crappily proof-read.
Today I mailed in a performer application for Gothla US. I decided that even if I'm busy with exams next semester, it's really important to me to be able to get more involved with the dance community. So, with any luck, my metaphorical dance of metamorphosis, "Butterfly," will appear on a stage in SoCal in February.
Also, for my dance research, I am reading a volume of essays edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, titled Belly Dance: Orientalism, Transnationalism, & Harem Fantasy. It's been really interesting so far, and I would recommend it to both dancers and scholars. My main problem with it is that the editing is horrible--I've encountered dozens of typos in the two hundred pages I've read so far, which is really a shame. I don't know whether I'd want my work appearing in something so crappily proof-read.