Recent content by ana_bat

**First, I hope this is posted here appropriately as I my question revolves around an issue of training and learning** Lately I've had this issue nagging at the back of my mind and I would greatly appreciate some perspective as I don't have many people I can ask about this in real life...

Recently I've realized that I no longer feel passionate about ATS which was what I thought to be a true calling. I'm looking for a change, but I find myself unsure how to proceed next. Basically I came to this realization that after 4 years I knew nothing about belly dance at all. I'm upset that...

A while back I bought a few Veda Sereem Dvd's because I'm very interested in the older (though I don't see how the 70's were that long ago :P) American Oriental/Vintage style. And I was wondering for those of you who were around back then, how close is Veda's style to what was done back then...

Greetings everyone! I feel like I'm in strange territory right now and I thought I'd share with y'all just to get some perspective/advice/feedback. So I've got 4 years learning mostly FCBD tribal, some BSBD and dabbling in my second favorite style of American Oriental, and I want to do a...

Yesterday I was having a chat with a friend of mine whom I'm starting a troupe with when something she said struck me as unusual. She was telling me that back in her home state troupes that performed out in public needed something like a dancer's or performer's license, or they would risk...

I've dabbled in belly dance for 3 years now but mostly Tribal (and Tribal Fusion) and now I've decided to seriously study Oriental Dance. I'm horribly confused and I really feel like I need some leads as to where I can get reliable information to understand the various dance styles out there (to...

Its a nice today not sweating buckets! ^^ About me: I love all belly dance, I'm in school studying sociology, ultimately I want to be a librarian so I love info, organizing it, storing it, researching, etc. ATS is my main thing, I study it with a good friend who has a sister studio, I take...