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Dancing has always been part of me. Long before I took my first ballet class at age six, I liked to fling myself around the living room to music, preferably with filmy garments draped over me. Since then, I’ve tried almost every kind of dance you can think of, except for tap. (Not that I [...]

  1 Day until Mosaic, the belly dance fusion show in which I’ll be performing with my belly dance troupe! 3 group numbers I’ll be dancing in with the gorgeous ladies of Invoketress; 9 guest performers/groups gracing us with their presence tomorrow; 3:24 minutes of solo I’ve choreographed to a well-known pop song (hint: I’ll [...]

Gripe: My blog DISAPPEARING for a week. Now that I’ve looked at my stats, I can see that it was a blank, unviewable page for seven whole days (even though I didn’t realize it for the first few). Scary. Hype: It’s back! My daddy fixed it!! Yay! Dear blog, I apologize for updating your plugins [...]

I thought y’all might enjoy this video of (some of) our dance troupe, Invoketress, dancing our interpretation of the story of Lillith to Apocalyptica’s cover of Metallica’s “One”. We performed last weekend at the Bellydance Bizarre, hosted by DownHips of Cambridge. What a fantastic show: all the dancers bring their most funny/weird/creepy numbers to the [...]

Whenever I’m feeling like I don’t quite have a handle on everything, it’s time to make a list. Just putting stuff next to bullets makes life seem more orderly. I am a chronic overcommitter. I’m performing tomorrow with Invoketress for the Belly Blush – a veil piece with a princess theme, ooh pretty. I have [...]

I’ve uploaded the sequel to Mission Impossible Baby, just to showcase the diversity of E’s talents. Here, he avoids grass by striking poses that you will note are very similar to sculptures of dancing Hindu divinities. In my belly dance class, we’ve been learning some Indian-inspired choreography, and how it’s all about the bends in [...]

Yesterday I attended my first official clothing exchange party. It was smashing! (The good kind.) Now, read on, and see if you can guess what that big F-word up there means. I’ve been at events where clothing was exchanged, but this was hard-core. A belly dancer friend of mine invited me – and I guess [...]

The show was a great success!  We danced our hearts out, any costume malfunctions were minimal, everyone got to their places on time, and we all had fun.  And the drum choreography was a total hit. Plus, E was an absolute angel.  I mean, he’s always an angel, but this was even when faced with [...]

2 days I’ve missed blogging (but I shall atone!!  by doing extras… in a few days) 1 day until the belly dance show 3 numbers I’m performing in 3 costumes I’m pulling together 6 (or so) hours of group rehearsal this week 28 colour number of “nutmeg”, on a box containing… 3 bottles/steps my sister [...]