September 10th, 2007
One of the people that Lady Cocoa mentioned to me when she was describing the belly dancing was Tarik Sultan. In the below clip, you see some of the great control, but what I find amusing is the section around 3/4 of the way through, when the music changes and he does some hip isolations. […]
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September 9th, 2007
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend two Middle Eastern Dance workshops as a student at a camping event. The first class was taught by Phedre of Madison, WI, and the second by Lady Cocoa from Chicago.
In the first, we learned basics of posture, foot position, and then the standards of hip circles, figure […]
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September 5th, 2007
“I knew, in choosing Pablo Veron as principal dancer and co-choreographer, that the secret architecture of the tango would be central to the movement vocabulary of my production. Not the sleazy over-dramatised tango of so many shows (the tango that the Argentineans themselves call ‘tango for export’), but the underlying forms of the dance for […]
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September 2nd, 2007
My degree is in Dance. Specifically, I was in the Interarts Technology Program at the University of WI- Madison, and studied with people such as Li Chiao-Ping, Jin-Wen Yu, Peggy Choy, Phil Zarrilli, and my primary mentor, Douglas Rosenberg. This was in the heady Dot-Com Boom, and I was loving my work integrating dance […]
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September 1st, 2007
I’m going to my 20 year H.S. reunion in a month, and it amuses me that under “hobbies” I get to put “Burlesque Performer.” It’s very true; I spent the latter half of travel on thursday night choreographing a new number for the Peach Pies, where I get to sing “All I Care About” from […]
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