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Jul. 21st, 2005 03:03 pmI hate it when you finish lunch only to realize that you are still ravenous. I blame that lack of sleep chemical imbalance thing.
My brain has gone numb. I thought I had things to write... Well, it's confirmed that I'm dancing in the hafli following the Rachel Brice workshop on Sunday, so that's cool. Luckily I have something ready to go. Now I just have to be able to perform after four or five hours on Saturday with Amar Gamal and four on Sunday with Rachel Brice. The way to build endurance is to push yourself, I guess! I hope Rachel Brice stays for the hafli. At least I think that's what I hope. I'm doing Pull Up the People again.
I'm also dancing again at the Middle East on Sunday, July 31 at 11pm and the following Sunday at a time tbd. Also, Za-Beth has asked those of us who did the Oojami show if we would do some kind of tv show with her, a cable access thing I think. And I'll be performing at the September 10 Kabarett 16-Bit and at Mass Morgue at the end of October, then with Sarab in Johara's contest Nov. 5 and with the Jewels of Jamal the next Saturday at a charity benefit hafli. Every week, I think "oh, in a few more weeks I'll have some down time." I have come to realize that this is not ever the case, that there's always some new gig on the horizon. It all feels manageable right now, we'll see what happens when winter rolls around and getting places becomes ten times harder.
I watched "So You Think You Can Dance" last night, as my previous entry indicated. What a strange show. I missed the part where Isis the belly dancer introduced herself and said her fake boobs were the best accessory she ever bought. Ugh. She wasn't a terrible dancer but she wasn't great, either--the women I know from Boston who went are better, but I guess they just hadn't made the right accessory purchases. On the positive side, though, it was good to see belly dance presented alongside all the other dances, and the judges did admit that belly dancers were real dancers, not just specialist freaks with their own unique niche. When the tribal girl walked out, she shouldn't have brought race into it, but I think she did have a valid point about the people who do well being from the sorts of social classes that can afford a variety of dance classes, outfits, shoes, etc for their children so that they are polished, professional level dancers by the time they are 20. (her comment was something along the lines of that the winners would be a bunch of rich white people doing the same old Western dances and that ethnic dancers had no chance against the show's criteria. she herself happened to be white, so she wasn't trying to say she was the wrong color to be picked) I also share the Internet's opinion that the judges were blinded by gender roles and expectations when it came to judging men who they deemed to be effeminate. That was painful. I don't know if I'll watch any of the rest of this show--the appeal of last night's show was seeing the variety of dancers who showed up for the auditions, and I didn't see a lot of variety in the dancers who progressed onwards. Apart from the one heavy guy, that is. I hope that he wins, just like the producers want me to. He really was a good dancer, though.
More building an arabic show workshop tonight. I think tonight is cane and beledi taqsims--I hope so, anyway. I am really liking those beledi taqsims. They can almost be a mini-routine in themselves.
There, I guess there was something in my brain after all.
My brain has gone numb. I thought I had things to write... Well, it's confirmed that I'm dancing in the hafli following the Rachel Brice workshop on Sunday, so that's cool. Luckily I have something ready to go. Now I just have to be able to perform after four or five hours on Saturday with Amar Gamal and four on Sunday with Rachel Brice. The way to build endurance is to push yourself, I guess! I hope Rachel Brice stays for the hafli. At least I think that's what I hope. I'm doing Pull Up the People again.
I'm also dancing again at the Middle East on Sunday, July 31 at 11pm and the following Sunday at a time tbd. Also, Za-Beth has asked those of us who did the Oojami show if we would do some kind of tv show with her, a cable access thing I think. And I'll be performing at the September 10 Kabarett 16-Bit and at Mass Morgue at the end of October, then with Sarab in Johara's contest Nov. 5 and with the Jewels of Jamal the next Saturday at a charity benefit hafli. Every week, I think "oh, in a few more weeks I'll have some down time." I have come to realize that this is not ever the case, that there's always some new gig on the horizon. It all feels manageable right now, we'll see what happens when winter rolls around and getting places becomes ten times harder.
I watched "So You Think You Can Dance" last night, as my previous entry indicated. What a strange show. I missed the part where Isis the belly dancer introduced herself and said her fake boobs were the best accessory she ever bought. Ugh. She wasn't a terrible dancer but she wasn't great, either--the women I know from Boston who went are better, but I guess they just hadn't made the right accessory purchases. On the positive side, though, it was good to see belly dance presented alongside all the other dances, and the judges did admit that belly dancers were real dancers, not just specialist freaks with their own unique niche. When the tribal girl walked out, she shouldn't have brought race into it, but I think she did have a valid point about the people who do well being from the sorts of social classes that can afford a variety of dance classes, outfits, shoes, etc for their children so that they are polished, professional level dancers by the time they are 20. (her comment was something along the lines of that the winners would be a bunch of rich white people doing the same old Western dances and that ethnic dancers had no chance against the show's criteria. she herself happened to be white, so she wasn't trying to say she was the wrong color to be picked) I also share the Internet's opinion that the judges were blinded by gender roles and expectations when it came to judging men who they deemed to be effeminate. That was painful. I don't know if I'll watch any of the rest of this show--the appeal of last night's show was seeing the variety of dancers who showed up for the auditions, and I didn't see a lot of variety in the dancers who progressed onwards. Apart from the one heavy guy, that is. I hope that he wins, just like the producers want me to. He really was a good dancer, though.
More building an arabic show workshop tonight. I think tonight is cane and beledi taqsims--I hope so, anyway. I am really liking those beledi taqsims. They can almost be a mini-routine in themselves.
There, I guess there was something in my brain after all.
