Performance Madness!

Ishani I began working on this DVD before the Hoover (old desktop PC) crashed and burned. The hardware difficulties created an issue for transferring the video from the tape to the hard drive and then processing the DVD. A new Mac Mini and several iterations later, the DVD is finally finished. Way back in March,…

Easing in seams sucks. Or rather, I suck at it. I had to ease in four seams tonight. Learned how to do it while doing it. You know there aren’t any good Web sites that explain how to ease in seams? I found some pictures. The people in my belly dance class tried to explain…

Finally, after a month, I made it back to dance class tonight! Imagine my surprise to learn that our next recital is in two weeks!! EEP! We’re still learning a new choreography to Madura’s Isdes. Fun fusion song. We might also do another dance to Bakara (not sure who that song is by). It’s fun,…

Wednesday night is my regular dance class. However, Thanksgiving is taking the place of dance class tomorrow. Just for fun, I emailed my instructor to see if she would like to come over for a lesson. She agreed. Whenever she comes over, we have something like a cross between a girls’ night out and a…

Today we had an extra practise for dance class. Three hours! This has been one of those amazingly full days. Knitting group in the morning from 10-2, dance from 3-7, and then work at home from 8:00 until whenver I fall over. We’re working on two choreographies: one that we’ve been learning over the holidays…

Jaia hosted a hafla (think open floor dance and music party) tonight. Talk about a blast! Mary Lou and I went and brought some food. Great food there too — people brought finger food that was really tasty. No potato salad or anything. Most of it was home-made goodness. Tasty. There was live music (and…