Greek Bonfire
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Why can't you have several dance personalities? After all, they are just facets of you whether you think of them as that or different personalities/characters. You just have to choose which parts of your personality you want to show to the audience when you are performing.
Just for shaabi I've got at least three different stage personas; one of them is cute, fun and flirty (lately it has been inspired by Caroline's happy shaabi) and rather innocent. The other two are the opposite from this one. As I can't be coquettish more than seconds at a time without laughing, it is balancing on the very fine line of being vulgar. How extreme it turns out to be depends on the audience; if they are connoisseurs it canl become rather extreme (and perhaps too vulgar to delicate souls), if not I'm a bit more careful. I'll never do the extreme parts without a context or without a possibility to show off a more serious oriental as well in the same show. The last one is a sidetrack on the extreme side and is rather trashy. This one only occurs in my shaabi group choreography. In this choreography we all have different personalities and besides the trashy one, there are two coquettish divas, one hippie and the last one is cute and adorable and almost childish. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
Good point and a great idea. :clap: