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[alonewiththemoon]

I survived the Morocco workshop and hafli performance.  I had forgotten what a toll her dancing style takes on my feet--there's a lot of shimmying while up on the ball of the foot, so basically you are microstomping your foot for hours on end during a workshop.  The lack of sleep and overabundance of gin and tonics I had last night did not make things any easier.  But as I said, I survived and even learned stuff.

My performance went okay.  It was of course better in rehearsal than on stage--for one thing, I never dropped the cane in a rehearsal, but on stage--yep.  At least it was just a moment when I was standing with the cane resting on the ground, so it didn't go flying into the crowd or anything like that. I am told I made a very cute face at it when it fell over.   All in all, it didn't go too badly for a first cane solo.  I think I really like cane.  I wonder if there's any way to do goth/cane fusion...  There was a nice variety of performers, and Morocco put on a great show.  I can't believe the woman is 65.  I was all fan girl and asked her if i could take my photo with her--not only did she say yes, but she hugged me and kissed me on the cheek.  yay for supportive legends of dance!

I tried on a pretty damn amazing leopard print costume from Anatolia that I have more or less commited to buying via layaway.  It has laticework on the legs which I did not think would really suit me until I tried it on and was quite pleasantly surprised (in fact, my reaction when I saw myself in the mirror was 'hot damn, that's *me*?').  Seyyide somehow thought it looked too much like my copper coins and leopard print costume, but I don't really see that, and neither did the other people who were there who had seen me in both costumes.  The coin costume is earthy and fusion-y, this one is all glamour and sequins and cabaret.  I'm trying not to think about how much it costs; even on layaway it will be a few months before I own it.  but hey, how often do I buy fancy costumes?

now I think i will follow Morocco's post-workshop advice and take a nice hot bath.  If you never hear from me again, I fell asleep and drowned ;-)

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[nepenthedreams]

Did you see labellemargaux there? She told me she was going to the workshop too.
We discussed last night plots to become a bellydancing troupe. We will all have to get together some day.

[kambriel.livejournal.com]

If you do start a local troupe, please feel free to let me know if you want any costuming help... I've been very inspired to create "Raks Gothique" inspired additions to my Kambriel line!

[alonewiththemoon]

Ooh, absolutely yes... For a little while it was looking like I was going to need a patchwork skirt for a performance in May and I was getting excited to order one from you, but the costuming for that number changed. I'm sure there will be another time I'll need something though, after I've finished paying for the leopard extravagancy. I've got to show you my corset belt, although you're not allowed to look too closely at the stitching. I can make pieces of fabric stick together, but it ain't always pretty on the reverse side ;-)

[alonewiththemoon]

I did indeed see her--she helped enable me to buy the costume ;-)

Yes to troupe plots! I'm sure you are pretty busy yourself right now--my schedule clears up a bit in June, if we wanted to try to get together in the summer to work on things. I'm pretty sure we could get a performance slot at those Kabaretts I perform in at the Zeitgeist. I still have nebulous thoughts swirling around in my head for a sort of goth hafli for the first hour of Ceremony some night...