Comments | katzedecimal: My dance, let me show you it

katzedecimal

My dance, let me show you it

Dec 15, 2008 23:41

Last night was the Shimmy Dance Productions 2008 winter hafla. I danced four dances, but due to battery issues were only able to record a few of them. So, we got one of my original choreographies, and the cane dance from the Tito workshop.

( Behold the powah of our undulations! Behold them, I say! Are you beholding? )

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runenklinge December 16 2008, 19:52:54 UTC

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katzedecimal December 16 2008, 23:19:43 UTC

Got that, yup. Links work, though.

runenklinge December 17 2008, 17:56:33 UTC

wow, this looks amazing^^

when I first read "cane dance" I thought of people in tux, top hat and cane in dandy 30s, 40s style, but this is so awesome!
Yay for sexy dancing^^

katzedecimal December 18 2008, 04:25:24 UTC

o/~ If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits, puttin' on the ritz o/~ XDDD

Yeahhhhhhh raqs al-assaya's only slightly different. It's a playful imitation of a men's dance (called Tahtib) that is in turn an imitation of a stick fighting training. But if you have some training in stick fighting, you can see which movements have the martial arts roots. Fun! XD I'm glad you liked ^___^

ellie_nor December 18 2008, 10:31:10 UTC

:-D You look like you're having a lot of fun!

katzedecimal December 18 2008, 19:48:38 UTC

I was! =DDD My first love is still jazz but this is a pretty good second place, and I'll certainly achieve my dream.

canistrotter December 22 2008, 08:20:44 UTC

OMG!!! So happy to see you doing so well. Major jealous too 'cause I'm on hold until my hip gets resolved. You look great. I noticed you are going without glasses too.

Oh - major stomach muscles *Kudos* ;~) gabi

katzedecimal December 23 2008, 03:01:38 UTC

Hey hey look who's crawled out of the woodwork XDDD

Yeahhhhh the glasses, that was an accidental thing. I have contacts but my prescription has changed so much, they're now agony to wear. So one day they bothered me so much, I took them out and went on to perform blind ....and realised that I was much less nervous because I couldn't see the audience *LOL* So I've performed 'blind' ever since. That was particularly so at the Wainwright show - I danced 'blind', couldn't see anything, just a big pool of black and spotlights on me. Then we got called out after Intermission and I forgot that I still had my glasses on. I look out and OMG the theater is almost FULL!!! There's gotta be more than a hundred people out there! (almost 150, actually) AND THEY'RE STARING AT ME!!! AAAAAGH! XDDDD ...So yeah, no glasses *LOL*

Hee thanks ^__^ I must admit, I am very happy with how my body looks now. Looks better now at not-quite-forty than it did at 16! XD

canistrotter December 23 2008, 06:03:25 UTC

ROTF - what a great idea. Yeah, I did also notice that you were smiling and even laughing totally natural. *Double Kudos*!!! Ditto on the body.

ps: I'm almost never home when you are on line - but I miss yakking, I'll see what I can do ;~)

axolotl_lan December 23 2008, 20:20:40 UTC

...... KATZ IS PRETTY!

Okay, sorry for the 'surprise' note but OMG you are prettier than I was thinking and that is again mean but wow... is jealous of the unbelievably nice stomach there and hair omg pretty!

*sucks in appearence gushing* Okay - the raqs is fantastic! your cane moves especially the twirls.

I also found my fave parts of the choreographed were the hindu arms aspect and the back bendy awesome and then I read the comments and it is like 'is the katz's idea'

Omg you are good!!! and those videos are amazing - gushes and would do so more but wants to watch them all again!

katzedecimal December 27 2008, 18:37:24 UTC

Awwww, sankyuu! ^__^

Stomach comes from the dancing (well it is bellydancing, donchaknow ^_~ ), hair comes from Louise Marie Longhairs.