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Oct. 12th, 2005 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonMy wings are absolutely beautiful--they are more irridescent than I expected, but that's good, as they definitely won't disappear on stage. M said they look like dragonfly wings :-) I twirled around the apartment as much as I could with them last night--I've got space booked at the Dance Complex on Friday to really take them for a spin (ha, ha). I am so in love with them!
In other interesting belly dance news, a couple of years ago, a dancer I "know" from online communities was hired to dance at a big new year's eve party in India. Some extremist Hindis attacked the decadent western party and a riot erupted that lasted for some time. It was obviously very frightening for her, and a real education into some of the cultural nuances of India. Well, her husband is a film-maker, and his proposal for a film on what happened that night was accepted for a new HBO series called The Pitch Room, starting in mid-November. I guess with the series, you see the process of getting a documentary film made from its first pitch to the end. Anyway, a description of his project can be found here, and the dancer will be doing a performance for the studio execs as part of the pitch. I'll be really interested to see how HBO treats this. I think it would make a fascinating documentary--obviously I'm biased about the dancing part, but the interactions of the various players--the extremists, the hired western entertainment, the hotel managers, government officials, soldiers, the regular people who just wish all the rest of them would go away--would be hugely interesting in a globally ethnographic kind of way.
In other interesting belly dance news, a couple of years ago, a dancer I "know" from online communities was hired to dance at a big new year's eve party in India. Some extremist Hindis attacked the decadent western party and a riot erupted that lasted for some time. It was obviously very frightening for her, and a real education into some of the cultural nuances of India. Well, her husband is a film-maker, and his proposal for a film on what happened that night was accepted for a new HBO series called The Pitch Room, starting in mid-November. I guess with the series, you see the process of getting a documentary film made from its first pitch to the end. Anyway, a description of his project can be found here, and the dancer will be doing a performance for the studio execs as part of the pitch. I'll be really interested to see how HBO treats this. I think it would make a fascinating documentary--obviously I'm biased about the dancing part, but the interactions of the various players--the extremists, the hired western entertainment, the hotel managers, government officials, soldiers, the regular people who just wish all the rest of them would go away--would be hugely interesting in a globally ethnographic kind of way.
