I'll put them on my summer reading list. I vaguely recall enjoying the first book.
I don't think it was her body type da Sage, I think it was the total lack of grace. I have seen some videos of woman her size bellydancing that left me absolutely stunned at their skill. This just was not one of them.
Exactly and what's wrong with just being so.....Pretty cute performance- I like her sense of humor, but it looks like plain ol' burlesque to me.
It's... really... bad. OK, she is physically strong and that routine at the beginning, apart from the boob explosion, would make you pretty fit if you did it every day.That's what it looks like, a moving meditation. It is mostly quite good. I'm just going to draw a veil over the "veil" and the "belly dance" at the end.
What strikes me here though is the problem of stage craft and context. Look at how she was introduced and how she came on. BLAH. You can't do pofaced experimental meaningful dance coming on like that! Secondly, it looked to be midafternoon maybe at a festival, and people were talking all the way through. The music was far too quiet, there was no lighting... it was a theatre piece (albeit a quite poor theatre piece) plonked in the middle of a fair and it did not work for this reason alone.
If she'd been on a stage with decent lighting and the music cranked up very loud, and an audience in the dark feeling required to whisper at most, it would not have been good but it would have been a great deal better.
:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:In case you are not familiar with Venn Diagrams, the place where the circles overlap is the area of commonality. like such:
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Ok.... indulge me... what IS that bit in the middle????? :shok:
You could take the short cut and watch the movie. I think there were two made of the first book. No belly dance scenes that I can recall.
Sorry for getting a little off topic everybody!
In case you are not familiar with Venn Diagrams, the place where the circles overlap is the area of commonality. like such:
upon consideration and on rteading some of the statements by the dancer - I think that she may have personality issues. Is she still fair game for comment
But I am not allowed to say I see sh*%! :lol:
So what is art? and more importantly... what is Tribal fusion, Herbert someone bene big worms art? and what does this have to do with Middle Eastern art???
Help me...somebody...ray::lol: