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Lessons learned from belly dancing

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I had a big performance last night. I danced at a big dance show at a theater at Washington University (not at a bellydance-community event, but at an event where there were dancers from all over the city, and people payed $20/ticket to see the show!

 

Our school danced to two songs, the first was more traditionally bellydance, and the 2nd was to a song that was a cross between arabic and afro-cuban styles of music, and the dancing was a blend as well. It's super-cute. I was in the traditional piece. There were 5 of us dancing with veils, and we formed a semicircle type shape around 3 dancers with swords. I was the center veil dancer, which was most cool.

 

As a completely unrelated aside, the ballet dancers wear the ugliest crap backstage... baggy sweatpant overalls, grungy insulated socks... oh those poor things, too skinny to keep themselves warm. :wub: Also some of them were grumbling about how the cosumes we and the Indian dancers were wearing were a lot cooler than theirs. I would be grumbling too if the skirt of my dress was cut to look like mis-proportioned flower petals.

 

Anyway, so right up until like an hour before the show, the veil dancers are still going over stuff. At rehersal yesterday afternoon, my veil shrink wrapped itself to my face while I was dancing. We were all anticipating a disaster. But when we got on stage, it went off without a hitch. Our teachers take on it was, "Have you guys been shitting me for the last 3 weeks? Did you guys just know it all along and mess up in practice just to freak me out?" I twas awesome. The audience was clapping along with our music, it was great.

 

I learned a lesson from it too: We thought we were unprepared, but we had practiced hard, and when it came time to do it, adrenaline pulled us through. I think that's where I'm at with my exam: If I make a solid push of studying these last 10 days, and I consitently do well on my practice exams, then adrenalyn should help me pull through with enough of a margin to feel pretty confident about my score.

 

Also, my micro roses are developing buds. I'm going to have real live roses that I grew all by myself on my balcony!

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Congratulations! The dance performance sounds like it was awesome -- and what a rush to have it all fall together on stage. I think the collective energy when you're with a group of people and you're all "on" is just about as good as it gets. What a great break from the studying routine, and I think you're spot on about adreneline taking you to an optimal level.

 

Micro roses? How teensy are they? Sounds interesting. I do love spring.

 

Congratulations again!

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:P

 

Congratulations on a shrink-wrap-free performance! We all knew you would rise to the occasion.

 

Once upon a time I was one of the waddling ballerinas (though never one of the 5% body fat crowd, thank goodness) and remember how awkward it was to sit in one of those two piece tutus (top part was corset-like, bottom half was the rotary saw of tule). I would've traded in my leotards for a belly dancer's getup anyday.

 

And I'm excited about your roses too! I love it when the things I try to grow don't keel over (we're currently at about a 60% success rate).

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