Blanca’s visit here is nearly over. I miss her already. She so turns out to be what I imagined. Fun to be with, beautiful, spontaneous and wholehearted in her enjoyment of things, sensitive, sweet - and a powerful dancer even when not doing a whole performance. Even when she’s showing me a move or [...]
I have admired Blanca and her beautiful dancing for so long. I would never have imaged though, that I’d actually get to meet her. I imagined even less that I would actually meet her right here in India. And I imagined least of all that I’d meet her here in my own dance room! But [...]
Somewhere along the line, I got a bee in the bonnet about sensuality. Actually, soon after I began belly dancing I went on a big hunt for videos that taught “slow moves”. The sensuality bug was reinforced when I happened to see a video clip of Blanca.
There are many words that come to mind [...]
Things got serious when I started to figure out that my isolations still had a long way to go. They needed depth and control. And luckily, a series of new tribal fusion videos began to be released.
East Coast Tribal
With this wonderful video, I think I moved to another level. I saw with the sinuous snaky [...]
Shira’s Yahoo Belly Dance Video Group played a huge, huge part in my dance journey. Not only because we’d alert the group about new videos, but because of the discussions, analysis, sharing, exploring and support for everything from knee problems to weight loss. We’ve talked about many aspects of dance and dancers.
Most of all, what [...]
I couldn’t believe my luck when a friend, totally in passing, mentioned his wife was going to join ballroom dancing class. I had no idea there were any ballroom classes in Delhi! In fact, was there anything other than bollywood and bhangra in the country?
Of course there was, but clueless Mala didn’t know that. Anyway, [...]