Aisha Azar
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Goth, etc.
Dear Moon,
Well, thank you very much!! (I look quite lovely in electric blue!!)
Regards,
A'isha
Dear Moon,
Well, thank you very much!! (I look quite lovely in electric blue!!)
Regards,
A'isha
Hey Ladies,
No comments on the video I posted? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBNk0nRXoko) ...
A'isha Azar said:Dear Moon,
Well, thank you very much!! (I look quite lovely in electric blue!!)
Regards,
A'isha
OMG they've got "my" avatar on their homepage! That picture is so NOT a gothic bellydancer (not a bellydancer at all actually...)
As soon as I reach 500, you should all have a piece of the virtual cake I'm going to postMarisha25 said:Wow Moon, you posted 430 times!
What is your avatar? You mean the picture is yours? I thought that was Tempest herself.
it seemed to me that Goth subculture is not exactly encouraging of sunny dispositions. As for Jehan's explanation of her controversial performance I had a similar feeling to that when I read Sashi's explanation about her dancing with the pierced metal wings...I felt that they used a lot of rhetoric but never really addressed the actual concerns raised and if you strip away all the pretty words it came out like "this is my dance, and I will do what I like"...grrr
Flowery language does not hide the fact that she is not even addressing the issues here. I think a major issue, especially for myself, is that this is not even a tiny bit bellydance. Her reply to that was that the two moves she did were "executed beautifully." Two moves does NOT make it belly dance. Because on that principle, many things would be included under the title of belly dance (even more than what already has been included) and the dance would eventually cease to have any defining properties. You could be square-dancing, add a hip-twist, and call it belly dance. As preposterous as it may sound, it could eventually end up that way.
The fact that Jehan chooses to hold her "spirituality" as a shield from criticism does not alter the fact that it was inappropriate, both in the context and intent, for a bellydance DVD.
Not the main picture on http://www.meddevi.com/gothicbellydance/main.html but the smaller one at the bottom.
It's not me (unfortunately) but neither is it Tempest or any other Goth, or any other bellydancer; it's Marilyn Monroe.
I'm going to change mine now though - I fancy a change so I'm going get my crayons out tonight and do something original!