This userpic? Is on the poster for Bloomington Belly Dances! (there's a pdf of the poster available on the website) The performance is this Friday night at the Waldron, doors at 7 and show at 7:30 and tix $10 in advance, and I'm super-excited to be dancing with Different Drummer and doing a solo (to songs by Solace from the Nagari CD ( Read more... )

Okay, time for a big catch-up post with pictures! And video links! And popcorn! No, just kidding on that last part.

So, first, I did a photoshoot at Tribal Fest wearing a bunch of anaar's designs, which I also performed in. Seriously fun and comfy stuff, I totally recommend her dancewear. Well, we got the photos back, and you can now see me as a model ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm finally getting around to posting about Tribal Fest 8, which took place in Sebastapol (Northern Cal), May 14-18 ( Read more... )

We are Different Drummer Belly Dancers, and we will pwn you!


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First, I am posting from my new MacBook! I've had a little trouble transferring some files--like old sentimental iTunes playlists and my Firefox bookmarks--but I figure this is an exercise in letting go. My poor iBook is just about dead, so I can only do so much data retrieval. Ah well. Look, a new shiny ( Read more... )

Well... I think I'm at least partway recovered from the Gothla! I'm going to post a few links/pics of general interest, and put a few other pics and the rest of my review behind a cut.

One person's pictures are here, and the ones of my performance start on this page.

One photographer has put up a slideshow here (none of me, but still very pretty ( Read more... )

Today's been a great dance-stuff day.

I taught my weekly class and had three enthusiastic students to torture with strengthening exercises. From there we worked on energizing our hands by creating tension in a push/pull manner, and then we made "dance sculptures" at the end by working with one another's tension-manipulating hands. I pimped Tribal ( Read more... )

Let it never be said that meddevi is not a sly temptress... it's her fault that I found out about Tribal Fusion Faire happening in San Luis Obispo this weekend, which is driving distance from the Valley (what, like, 3 hours? totally doable). Apparently my mom has planned a family Hanukkah party for Saturday night, so it looks like my best bet is to drive ( Read more... )

I'm massively excited about d_c_m's hafla tomorrow night (though, sadly, it may be running without d_c_m as she is sick, poor thing. People I know need to stop getting sick!).

I am performing a solo--to a remix of "Whatever Lola Wants" since my mom loves that song so I want to dance to it for her--and I am also performing with Different Drummer so we can ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )