Kyria's journal

 My aunt took me to a theater dance show for my birthday. I was busy all day, starting with belly dance practice with the girls in Bussum. The 9/8 Mastika dance is coming along. Nansi choreographed it and it's not your typical 9/8, but a lot of fun nontheless. 

Around 17.30 I walked to my grandmothers place. She lives in a residence in Naarden, about 30 minutes walking distance from where we practiced. She was happy to see me and proudly showed me her new calendar with pictures of the family. February has a big picture of me and my dad belly dancing, that's so cute! Have to ask him if I can get that picture too. We had soup and pizza and we were out the door, on our way to the theater.

The group Ínternationaal Dans Theater'(Or International Dance Theater in English) is highly spnosored group of trained dancers, who have a new show every year incorporating dances from around the world. The last one I watched was 'Following the silk road'in 2007 or 2008. The show was gorgeous, both dance wise and theater wise. They took the personal stories of the dancers and musicians and added beautyful, soul touching live music to tell ths tory. Several dancers did solo's in specific folklore styles, like Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian and Cuban. Various groupdances spiced things up and I particulary liked the start of the show when every dancer was wearing a traditional Dutch costume and they did a mix of Dutch folklore dances. 

The Romanian part was fun, a dance off between 4 men who did not stick their butt out *LOL* The dancer telling about growing up among ROmanian gypsies was interesting, though did confirm several stereotypes. I highly recommend going to the show if you can, they're touring the Netherlands for two more months. Yes, that's right, they've been doing this show for three months already and they have two more to go. In order to get government funding, they have to do this. Can you imagine being in a troupe who'd have such a busy schedule?