Last Saturday was Middle Eastern Mayhem. Although we had technical difficulties (the music wasn't playing loud enough), we did a good performance.
Hubby said once again that I was smiling too much. He prefers no smiles or semi-smiles when it comes to belly dancing because he thinks that it looks more mysterious. Well, I had people waving madly at me and I had to put a lot of effort so as not to outright laugh so I think that it wasn't too bad. Hubby also says that my smile looks like I'm having too much fun. Is there really such a thing? Well, nevermind what he thinks... ;op I REALLY enjoy dancing and it shows. So what?
Well, hubby is scared that I will not be able to pull a straight face for the solo that I want to do for the Nightmare on Marakesh Street. I think that I can pull it off. In the shows that we have done in the past, we wanted to convey happiness so I did. Now, I need to convey other emotions like sadness, hate, and scorn. I can do that. I will play the role and I'll play it well. I know that I can do that.
Well, back to the happy dance. After the Mayhem show was finished, it was open dance floor time. I was looking forward to it but when it came time to actually do it, I felt so self-conscious! My beloved teacher asked me if I wanted to dance and I started to say that now I felt self-conscious and was not so sure... right then, my dear friend Jen pulled me off my chair and said that I was going to dance. Laughing, up I went. I was really self-conscious for about 2 minutes. Then, I just did whatever the hell was coming to my head... and it felt good. I have been practicing doing just that (doing whatever I felt like to music) and so it was easier. I felt like I was constantly doing the same thing but I mixed it up and I'm pretty sure that it didn't look like the same thing as much as I thought it did (if that makes sense). My teacher commented that it did show that I practiced. Good!
Talking about practice... Boy, practicing is good for my legs! They are shrinking! Fast! Woohoo!
I got tons of compliments on my covered buns; I looked very anime-like. I loooooooooooved my makeup. I put some more time into it this time and blended, blended, blended.
There was a shift that happened too... I liked the turbans that we wore at Habiba but my tribe sisters got heaches all thanks to those. So we ditched the turbans, at least for the Mayhem performance. I definitely understood that it was best for my tribe sisters but I was disappointed because I liked the look. Well, wearing our hair whichever way we wanted with props like yarn stuff (in my case) or flowers or jewelry or whatnot looked way cool and was giving away more of each of our personalities. I think that my thing was more me... and I think that we looked like a group of individual talented dancers dancing together and it was cool.
Well, enough for now. Here's to us! Black Rose Caravan! Huzza!
Comments I had received:
From Haifa:
What fun!!It sounded like you had a blast!!! Open floors are so much fun to just get out there and let your body move to the music! As for getting up infront of people to perform... I usually have a straight face, out of being so nervous... but once I get into the actual dancing and start to relax, then the smile comes through. It sounds as if you have a bunch of fun loving friends that keep you all smiles. The other piece you want to do that is more... 'spooky'... I'm sure once you have that mind set and 'act' the part, you'll do fine and won't be all smiles. ;) Black Rose Caravan... love the name!
From Beth:
OH oh oh I had so much fun that night!!! I want to dance like that every dag gone day!! You didn't even look like you were nervous or self consious on the dance floor. You looked like you had been doing this for years. And I wouldn't worry about smiling too much. Alot of people in my troope don't smile when they perform and it looks like they are concentrating too much on their performance while if you're smiling you look like you are having a great time. When do you have classes i'm thinking about comming to a class. Your are a wonderful person and dancer I hope we have alot more performances together in the future. stay in touch beth
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