Darbla
New member
Again, Rachel is calling her style Dark Cabaret.
Yet she wears a lot of tribal jewelry, and does a lot of movements that aren't seen in cabaret. And really she does so much different stuff, none of it can wear the same descriptive label.
I was in a weekend-long workshop of Ansuya's a couple months ago. I remember her saying (and I'm paraphrasing) that a lot of people get hung up on what to call the dance they're doing when we should just relax and enjoy the dance. I think I'm just going to call what my troupe does "Middle Eastern and modern dance with influences from _______" since we'll do anything that's fun and interesting, but since that's a mouthful we'll just have to settle with "bellydance" for advertising. After all, "Bellydance Superstars" do more than just bellydance.