Comments on: Sweating in the cold

By: Shaia Fahrid

Shaia Fahrid — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:37:18 +0000

We have an active community of hoop dancers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of my friends/students just completed her first 6-week session with them, and is already doing belly dance/hoop fusion that knocks my eyeballs out! Who knew that those years spent hooping as a kid would pay off in our “old age”?

By: Mala

Mala — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:03:06 +0000

I guess practicing this choreo )or any) for a long time gets your brain to connect the music and the moves. I no longer have to remember the moves because the music asks for it. And you get to know the song so well, you can anticipate what’s coming next. I usually listen to a song I’m working with a zillion times in my iPod, doing the moves mentally!

The song Blanca uses is Ifrit. It’s from The Flame and the Shadow by Tim Rayborn. Were you expecting it in mail?

By: Sajia

Sajia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:01 +0000

I can’t remember exactly where, I just find it hard to go smoothly and precisely at once. I keep missing moves while trying to do it to the music – btw, what’s the name of the song? I didn’t receive it in the mail.

By: Mala

Mala — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:59:39 +0000

You do so much Sajia, it makes me dizzy. What parts of the Venus choreo are you stuck with?

it seems to be alarmingly warmer everywhere this year. WE have had a two-day cold wave so far. The rest… perfectly manageable.

By: Sajia

Sajia — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:41:49 +0000

We’re off the Pacific coast, so usually we get warm currents that make for a relatively mild climate. This year though, the fall was warmer than usual but we had heavy snowfall in the last few weeks.
I might do an improvisation on Friday night, because I’m getting frustration and stage fright with the Blanca choreography. What’s made my temper off is that my quarterly tax refund check got delayed, which meant that I couldn’t pay to go to the two tribal fusion workshops I was planning to this week. Inshallah, though, I’ll get the check today and go to my new kathak class.

By: Mala

Mala — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:05:57 +0000

Ok, that is COLD. I’d die altogether.

So what are the unfinished bits in the choreography right now?

By: Sajia

Sajia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:43:11 +0000

I live in Vancouver. I’m not sure the dance is actually ready, but I think I’ll wing it.

By: Mala

Mala — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:51:33 +0000

Aw! I hope the snow doesn’t stop your concert… it sounds so very nice. Where are you, I forgot. Would you believe, I’ve never seen snow? Well, I have from a distance, but I feel too cold to deliberately get anywhere near a snowy place and it certainly doesn’t snow where I live. Thank goodness too; it would be chaotic. It’s bad enough if it merely rains!

How nice that your Blanca choreo is already ready to show off. I always get “Oh my god, that’s so graceful!!” for this choreography. Of course, now that Blanca herself likes it on me, I’m doubly thrilled with it. The only part I can’t do well at all is the fast arabic hip walk she does.

By: Sajia

Sajia — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:55:16 +0000

That sucks Mala! I remember I was so disappointed when I waited for nearly 2 months for my copy of Luscious to show up, only to learn my order had been canceled due to a computer glitch. Finally I found a copy in a local HMV store.
It’s snowing so badly here, they had to cancel classes at my college. And I”m holding a concert at my home on Friday night, but if it’s this bad I wonder if my friends will be able to come. And I was hoping to show off my Blanca choreography too!

By: Mala

Mala — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:21:59 +0000

Dina, no..I haven’t got my Bahaia DVDs yet. Nor the Tanalyn Dalal. They went to the wrong address or something. So it’s a long wait.