Dance update- theater stuff and my classes are starting

Lots of things going on, so let's count down:
1. The oum kolthoum project performed at the Kunstfactor Live! Festival this friday. We did good, despite the lack of theater lights. We drew the waiters and cooks from the kitchen, and the police orchestra that played before us and packed up to leave, stuck around. Good for us! Despitethe bad news about our creative director's trouble with the theater that she's working at closing down. We got some nice artsy group shots in the blinding white futuristic hallway that I will share later.

2. Got a call for a private gig on friday, for...friday night. The good news: it was fairly close to my house, about 25 minutes by car. I said yes, showed up to a huge farmhouse turned into a house. It was a dinner for a group of friends who were going to Morrocco together and I was the suprise. I did an okay version of Talisman, habiby ya eini and got everyone up to dance. It was fun :-)

3. Practiced for the LAT project today, a 40 minute bely dance cross- over theater project. We did the run through, which went horribly for me,mprobably due to my unwose decision to go to a birthday party last night and getting back at 3 am. I do not regret this, as the party was awesome. We scheduled an extra hearsal next Saturday morning. The performance is on Sunday.

4. Next week: Asli Sharqi festival! Meaning workshops with Tito, Anasma and Khalida. Fabulous shows and performances, and all that jazz. I look forward to spending a weekend on dance and meeting dance friends. I'm afraid that this means I'll be crap at work on Monday, and I'm already feeling that I'm making too much mistakes right now. Understandable with y grandmother and everything, but it still sucks to feel incompetent because you know you are messing things up.

5. My weekly classes start tomorrow and all three are on! Meaning that I'll be teaching between 18.30 and 22.15 every monday, after 8 hours of work and 2 hours of travel. I am excited and slightly scared at the same time. The beginners group has a cute choreography. This semester I'm focusing on teaching the reversed camel first. Because I secretly loath the reversed camel and believe it makes you look like you are throwing up. In an attemot to change my point of view, I will start by teaching the reversed camel tomgive my students a chance to decide for themselves. The intermediates will get assignments for creatig their own choreography, combined with an Aziza choreography that I learned two or three years ago in Duisburg to a Nesma song. So they can enjoy her sheer genius through my rather poor example. I'm patting myself on the back for taking decent notes and videotaping the whole thing at the time. It appears that doing your homework really pays off.

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