mikhailsharqi
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i've recently started getting invited to here and there to perform at hafla's and showcase's sort of thing, my mother in her day was a folk dancer back in her home country, she had the oppurtunity to go round her country and countries to peform professionally but her father wouldn't allow it and now since i've become a student of oriental dance and started to perform she is proud to see her son up there.
my father and i, not that we don't get on but we've never been close, i've not seen him in a while and he calls every now and again to see me, see how i am. he wanted me to take go into the restaurant bizz with him, but rather i became a nurse like my mother. i'm proud that i've taken up a culturally rich style of emotive dance and become involved with my local bellydance community, and now dancing for people at these events that i started coming only to watch is lovely!
so i was wondering should i invite him along to one of the events, to see me dance, and i wonder how would he percieve it. i'm quite conscious how the the dance style can come across and still in its own countries it doesn't get the kudos it deserves as a performance art and dancers aren't often respect as such. i'm lucky to take classes with a Reda trained folkloric dancer who has instilled certain principle in me too and i feel confident in that.
i know if it was lady, being an italian red blooded man, he wouldn't discern between dance and sex, although the stylisation is different the moves are the same, how may he take it. would he be embarrassed / ashamed, or would he see the co-ordination, arm patterns, footwork, the emotive expression as well the wobbly shimmies chest pops undulations and accents.
i was thinking mention it in passing when we chat, then to email him a vid of one of my performances and then ask if he'd like to come see it sometime?
my father and i, not that we don't get on but we've never been close, i've not seen him in a while and he calls every now and again to see me, see how i am. he wanted me to take go into the restaurant bizz with him, but rather i became a nurse like my mother. i'm proud that i've taken up a culturally rich style of emotive dance and become involved with my local bellydance community, and now dancing for people at these events that i started coming only to watch is lovely!
so i was wondering should i invite him along to one of the events, to see me dance, and i wonder how would he percieve it. i'm quite conscious how the the dance style can come across and still in its own countries it doesn't get the kudos it deserves as a performance art and dancers aren't often respect as such. i'm lucky to take classes with a Reda trained folkloric dancer who has instilled certain principle in me too and i feel confident in that.
i know if it was lady, being an italian red blooded man, he wouldn't discern between dance and sex, although the stylisation is different the moves are the same, how may he take it. would he be embarrassed / ashamed, or would he see the co-ordination, arm patterns, footwork, the emotive expression as well the wobbly shimmies chest pops undulations and accents.
i was thinking mention it in passing when we chat, then to email him a vid of one of my performances and then ask if he'd like to come see it sometime?