Dance Experiences

Bambi

Bambi
 

 

 
Learning to dance by phone and synching up videos...

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Back in the mid-nineties when I had newly discovered American Tribal Style (ATS) belly dance*, I was so excited that I'd phone my dance pal, we'd synch up our Fat Chance Belly Dance (FCBD) videos, and we'd chatter on for hours about what we saw on the tape and the possibilities we saw dawning on our dance horizons.  Invariably, one of us would say, "Did you see that?"

Quickly we'd rewind to the segment of tape, eager anticipation filling our respective living rooms. We visually dissected the costuming. We soaked up the knowledge like sponges. We couldn't get enough!

* The dance form had been around much, much longer, but information takes time to filter from the west coast to the east.

The infamous shower curtain costume...
I thrive on costuming challenges. Once I even made a costume out of my shower curtain! It looks good, doesn't it?

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