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Mar. 6th, 2005 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonI slept 12 hours last night. I feel almost human today.
Sharon Kihara's workshop yesterday was great--it was exactly what I had hoped for, a good introduction to Suhaila Salimpour technique in the morning and an introduction to tribal movement with an Indigo twist and cueing in the afternoon. We worked on those wonderful slow "sidewinders"--what I would call vertical figure 8s, opposing chest figure 8s and tribal snake arms. It will be a good addition to my gothic movement vocabulary. The Suhaila stuff literally kicked my ass, what with the totally glute-driven shimmies, but I'm looking forward to working more on that. The warm-up and toning that we did was pretty intense, but I'm happy to discover I'm not as crippled today as I had feared.
Last night's show in Weymouth went fine. The theme was Sacred Women, and we did a very cool number of ours, a clarinet-heavy piece with a woman's voice narrating over the music some words about what dance means to women in Arabic culture and the strength it provides them--it was written by a Lebanese poet, but I can't remember her name right now. Any of you who saw the big Eastern Journey show last spring saw this. The other dancing of the evening was, er, interesting. One woman crawled down the center aisle and pretended to be a cat, licking her hand and grooming her head. But everybody seemed happy to be doing what they were doing, so good for them. If they had been dancing this kind of stuff at somebody else's event, I'd be a lot more judgemental, but it was their space and I'll respect that.
Tonight we have another show--it's a Tsunami aid benefit at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center (41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge), doors at 7:30, show starts at 8. Minimum donation is $15, and all proceeds go to Oxfam. In addition to us, Sharon Kihara will be dancing, so I'm really looking forward to the show. It is a very diverse line-up in general, from strict raqs sharqi to tribal fusion and everything in between.
And now it's time to stretch my protesting muscles. This show marks the end of my five weeks of non-stop performing and rehearsing--I have enjoyed it all very much but god will I be glad to relax for a little while and get some sleep on the weekends. And perhaps even see some of you people. I miss you guys!
Sharon Kihara's workshop yesterday was great--it was exactly what I had hoped for, a good introduction to Suhaila Salimpour technique in the morning and an introduction to tribal movement with an Indigo twist and cueing in the afternoon. We worked on those wonderful slow "sidewinders"--what I would call vertical figure 8s, opposing chest figure 8s and tribal snake arms. It will be a good addition to my gothic movement vocabulary. The Suhaila stuff literally kicked my ass, what with the totally glute-driven shimmies, but I'm looking forward to working more on that. The warm-up and toning that we did was pretty intense, but I'm happy to discover I'm not as crippled today as I had feared.
Last night's show in Weymouth went fine. The theme was Sacred Women, and we did a very cool number of ours, a clarinet-heavy piece with a woman's voice narrating over the music some words about what dance means to women in Arabic culture and the strength it provides them--it was written by a Lebanese poet, but I can't remember her name right now. Any of you who saw the big Eastern Journey show last spring saw this. The other dancing of the evening was, er, interesting. One woman crawled down the center aisle and pretended to be a cat, licking her hand and grooming her head. But everybody seemed happy to be doing what they were doing, so good for them. If they had been dancing this kind of stuff at somebody else's event, I'd be a lot more judgemental, but it was their space and I'll respect that.
Tonight we have another show--it's a Tsunami aid benefit at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center (41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge), doors at 7:30, show starts at 8. Minimum donation is $15, and all proceeds go to Oxfam. In addition to us, Sharon Kihara will be dancing, so I'm really looking forward to the show. It is a very diverse line-up in general, from strict raqs sharqi to tribal fusion and everything in between.
And now it's time to stretch my protesting muscles. This show marks the end of my five weeks of non-stop performing and rehearsing--I have enjoyed it all very much but god will I be glad to relax for a little while and get some sleep on the weekends. And perhaps even see some of you people. I miss you guys!
