The first official Hafla in Estonia

**Khaira** · 03-25-2008, 09:45 PM

Hello dancers,

Im happy to announce that Estonia has just had it's first Hafla!
Me together with two friends and colleques of mine Berit Vill and Sandra Vokk have founded Müstika Maagiline Teater - a theatre for all magical arts (including oriental dance, tribal dance, stage acts, magics, fire jugglery, medieval arts).

And now we finally managed to pull together a Hala, a 4 hour long hafla

The best comment I received that evening was: "Oh Khaira, I wish they had oriental music in all Estonian nightclubs!"

Hopefully I can soon upload videos as well

Take care,

I'm off to UK to Khaled's festival! And Im very hungry for some workshops

**Suheir** · 03-25-2008, 10:47 PM

Four hours, wow! Congratulations!

Have a fabulous time with Mr Goldenhips!

**Safran** · 03-26-2008, 11:20 AM

I can brag that I was there, and it was cool indeed... We'll be looking forward to the next one, Khaira

!

**Tigris** · 03-26-2008, 12:49 PM

Hey, let us know about the next one

I´m just accros the sea. Are any of you estonians and other of course coming to Jyväskylä Festival in June?

Itämaisen tanssin kesäfestivaali 2008

**Safran** · 03-27-2008, 08:14 AM

Hi Tigris, the next hafla is planned for the 10th of May. And I am sure Khaira can share more details with you when she's back from Khaled's festival (who would ever want to return from Khaled's festival

)...

I'm afraid I won't make it to any of the Finnish events any time soon though

**gisela** · 03-27-2008, 08:16 AM

Hey Maariku! Did you perform at the hafla?

**Safran** · 03-27-2008, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by gisela

Hey Maariku! Did you perform at the hafla?

Yep, that was the baladi I was working on and talking about on the forum earlier. And now, I don't know if I am excitedly looking forward to the girls from Müstika to get the video of the hafla out or not

**Tigris** · 03-31-2008, 06:10 AM

Hopefully I could come on 10th...we are planning to come Tallinn anyway soon, well, we come quite often anyway, it´s nice "get-away-for-a-weekend" I just live the oldtown, eating out. Ít´s like being abroad but just 1,5hour from home

But I have never come to dance-events, maybe I will do that too soon.