The Luscious and Love Potion experience continues through one more delicious bellydance feast, Hard Candy. The preview explains it all in detail, as always. “Two candies in one wrapper”, Neon calls it. Fitness and bellydance. The music is particularly lovely and sounds quite inseparable from the dancing. I totally look forward to it.
I’m thinking back to when Combino-graphy was first announced, long ago. Without meaning to, I formed a set of expectations about what it should contain. What I wanted to see was instruction and ideas on how to take combinations and come up with my own variations on them – choreographing combinations. The concept of Combino-graphy, on completion, actually turns out to be broader. It also turns out to be remarkably like the Improvisation Toolkit, created by Nadira Jamal, earlier. Meanwhile, videos with lots of smaller combinations, like Luscious and Love Potion, go some way to showing me how to create variations on a theme.
A few minutes into Combino-graphy, I found myself wondering if this was a remake of Improvisation Toolkit. Further into the video, It turns out it wasn’t; but there still are many descriptions, phrases and exercise formats we saw first on Improvisation Toolkit. [Read more →]