A dance blog eh?
A lot of my dancer-friend people on Facebook also seem to have a dance-related blog,
where they write about taking workshops, reviews of shows they've been to, general
choreography woe or inspiration...
So I appreciate those of you left following me on Livejournal probably won't be
interested in me posting on here solely about my bellydancing antics, especially as
I've kinda not posted on LJ for like, eons. But to that I say hoo-hah up yours :P
Im not promising riveting reading or anything to be eloquently worded, im just typing
this as it’ s falling out of my brain.
Soooo there's quite a lot to write about recently, im not short of material that's for
sure.
Sherri Wheatley Workshops in July
Doris arranged to have Sherri Wheatley (a fantastic LA-based tribal bellydancer) to
come to Peebles and host workshops, so we offered to host a couple in Glasgow as
well while she was here. Sherri is such a fun teacher - as well as being a foxy dancer!
Her dancing is technically brilliant with interesting combinations which she explains
with imagery that you can easily understand. Her dancing and costuming has an
earthy, sultry, mysterious tone which suits her well!
We did learn a couple of short choreographies although I’ d need to look at my notes
to try and recall them! My memory is fecking awful. It’ s nice to have combos that
aren’ t just 4 of this and 4 of that,, but that chop up your usual ATS-like movements
and combine them with level changes which gives it a whole new look and feel.
After the 1st workshop we had a hafla/show in the Winchester Bar, it was a bit
sparse in attendance however the crowd were great and appreciative of all the
performances. It was the first time I had seen Bex Priest and Alexis Southall dance
live (unfortunately we couldn’ t get Alexis’ music to work on the crappy CD decks at
the venue so she had to dance to something else) and they are both new favourites :)
where they write about taking workshops, reviews of shows they've been to, general
choreography woe or inspiration...
So I appreciate those of you left following me on Livejournal probably won't be
interested in me posting on here solely about my bellydancing antics, especially as
I've kinda not posted on LJ for like, eons. But to that I say hoo-hah up yours :P
Im not promising riveting reading or anything to be eloquently worded, im just typing
this as it’ s falling out of my brain.
Soooo there's quite a lot to write about recently, im not short of material that's for
sure.
Sherri Wheatley Workshops in July
Doris arranged to have Sherri Wheatley (a fantastic LA-based tribal bellydancer) to
come to Peebles and host workshops, so we offered to host a couple in Glasgow as
well while she was here. Sherri is such a fun teacher - as well as being a foxy dancer!
Her dancing is technically brilliant with interesting combinations which she explains
with imagery that you can easily understand. Her dancing and costuming has an
earthy, sultry, mysterious tone which suits her well!
We did learn a couple of short choreographies although I’ d need to look at my notes
to try and recall them! My memory is fecking awful. It’ s nice to have combos that
aren’ t just 4 of this and 4 of that,, but that chop up your usual ATS-like movements
and combine them with level changes which gives it a whole new look and feel.
After the 1st workshop we had a hafla/show in the Winchester Bar, it was a bit
sparse in attendance however the crowd were great and appreciative of all the
performances. It was the first time I had seen Bex Priest and Alexis Southall dance
live (unfortunately we couldn’ t get Alexis’ music to work on the crappy CD decks at
the venue so she had to dance to something else) and they are both new favourites :)