Comments on: The Language of BellyDance Part ll http://bellydance-adventures.com/language-of-bellydance-part-ll/ ...Dance the dream... Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Julia http://bellydance-adventures.com/language-of-bellydance-part-ll/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Julia Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:22:24 +0000 http://bellydance-adventures.com/?p=1331#comment-198 This particular blog, with its mention of Isadora Duncan, one of my all time favorite dancers, ties in to my passionate feelings about culture, and how we can change it to suit us. Culture is ours. We make it. It does not have to be dictated to us. This particular blog, with its mention of Isadora Duncan, one of my all time favorite dancers, ties in to my passionate feelings about culture, and how we can change it to suit us. Culture is ours. We make it. It does not have to be dictated to us.

]]> By: Lady Nyo http://bellydance-adventures.com/language-of-bellydance-part-ll/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Lady Nyo Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:26:45 +0000 http://bellydance-adventures.com/?p=1331#comment-197 Another good article!!! The Moroccan video brought me to tears of JOY!! So did the Bulgarian one. I think we must expand the language of the body, and Isadora Duncan certainly did that ...for the time. We must continue to go forward, and mix it up with other cultural impulses. I hope you continue to write such articles. They are more helpful than you know! I work with students who are middle age with all the attendant issues of middle age and I think it the very best of therapies. Getting them to shake their breasts without giggling and embarrassment is a big plus! Getting them to move and express with their bodies recreates an empowerment they haven't experienced in their lives. Getting them TO CLASS is a biggie! LOL!.. Keep writing about the Spiritual extention, Kathreen, and I will too! Lady Nyo ...who is Teela when she dances. .-= Lady Nyo´s last blog ..<a href="http://ladynyo.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/some-easy-and-inexpensive-recipes/" rel="nofollow">Some Easy and Inexpensive Recipes….</a> =-. Another good article!!!

The Moroccan video brought me to tears of JOY!!

So did the Bulgarian one.

I think we must expand the language of the body, and Isadora Duncan certainly did that …for the time.

We must continue to go forward, and mix it up with other cultural impulses.

I hope you continue to write such articles. They are more helpful than you know!

I work with students who are middle age with all the attendant issues of middle age and I think it the very best of therapies. Getting them to shake their breasts without giggling and embarrassment is a big plus!

Getting them to move and express with their bodies recreates an empowerment they haven’t experienced in their lives. Getting them TO CLASS is a biggie!

LOL!..

Keep writing about the Spiritual extention, Kathreen, and I will too!

Lady Nyo …who is Teela when she dances.
Lady Nyo´s last blog ..Some Easy and Inexpensive Recipes…. My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Delilah http://bellydance-adventures.com/language-of-bellydance-part-ll/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Delilah Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:53:26 +0000 http://bellydance-adventures.com/?p=1331#comment-195 Thanks Kathreen! I love your writing. You really do speak to me thats for sure! Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Ruth St Denis, Le Meri, have always been deep inspirations. As well as Maya Deren who taught me about the value of trance dance. Which is a big part of those 55 minute night club dance sets at Haji Baba in the old days! Ha! These days everything is mostly sound bites and dancers don't get to know what this experience is . Though much of my dance has been done to traditional Arabic music, with costumes and stylizations, (actually much of it still is, I have a rare and amazing 6 piece Arabic band I dance with in Seattle called House of Tarab). Oops! back on tract: However, I have as many people know, my more visionary side too. I have since the beginning of my belly dance experience understood (as in reference to your last article), the language of the dance. Thus, throughout my career, I have taken the liberty to say a lot more with my dance on stages and at parties than the average dancer. Some dancers think you are suppose to just smile and look pretty. Hmmm? Not good enough in my mind. My desire was to share more meaning through the artistic tool of belly dance. Even though I felt like Isadora Duncan did, an ancient echo from the past moving me. I also recognized this meant taking the dance in forward territory that was not as cultivated by others (yet). Intimacy on stage was not about sex, it's about barring ones soul. This often results as a powerful transformative and profound experience for me and my audience. Again, I have to say it was Maya Deren's book "Divine Horsemen" about Haitian trance dance that helped me understand this experience. One of the most meaningful comments after one of these performances was made to me by a famous theatrical playwright. He said "That was a really great performance Delilah, it was not pretty". His observation spoke to the dimensionality that I was compelled to express. So in response to this quality, I my company was named Visionary Dance. Today this work is now being channeled widely into my groups called the The Neighborhood Temple Priestesses. We are growing all over the world now and have a yahoo group dancers can join and learn more what we do. This year 2010 it's the theme for my annual January Hawaii Retreat. . . (see web sites). Anyways, We do deeply inspired dance works utilizing belly dance, unique veils dances, out door nature dances, shadow play, guided moving meditation, symbolic themes, festive ritual, aroma therapy, energy work, mythology and story telling. We are pretty diverse and do a lot of charity fund raising. Our goal is to connect, transform and bring our audience (many times mostly women like that Moroccan film clip) into that collective joy you speak of Kathreen. By moving from our hearts we move other hearts. Delilah NOTES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2lameri.htm http://www.visionarydance.com http://www. delilahs-belly-dance-retreat.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Neighborhood-Temple-Priestess Thanks Kathreen! I love your writing. You really do speak to me thats for sure! Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Ruth St Denis, Le Meri, have always been deep inspirations. As well as Maya Deren who taught me about the value of trance dance. Which is a big part of those 55 minute night club dance sets at Haji Baba in the old days! Ha! These days everything is mostly sound bites and dancers don’t get to know what this experience is .
Though much of my dance has been done to traditional Arabic music, with costumes and stylizations, (actually much of it still is, I have a rare and amazing 6 piece Arabic band I dance with in Seattle called House of Tarab). Oops! back on tract: However, I have as many people know, my more visionary side too. I have since the beginning of my belly dance experience understood (as in reference to your last article), the language of the dance. Thus, throughout my career, I have taken the liberty to say a lot more with my dance on stages and at parties than the average dancer. Some dancers think you are suppose to just smile and look pretty. Hmmm? Not good enough in my mind. My desire was to share more meaning through the artistic tool of belly dance. Even though I felt like Isadora Duncan did, an ancient echo from the past moving me. I also recognized this meant taking the dance in forward territory that was not as cultivated by others (yet). Intimacy on stage was not about sex, it’s about barring ones soul. This often results as a powerful transformative and profound experience for me and my audience. Again, I have to say it was Maya Deren’s book “Divine Horsemen” about Haitian trance dance that helped me understand this experience.
One of the most meaningful comments after one of these performances was made to me by a famous theatrical playwright. He said “That was a really great performance Delilah, it was not pretty”.
His observation spoke to the dimensionality that I was compelled to express. So in response to this quality, I my company was named Visionary Dance. Today this work is now being channeled widely into my groups called the The Neighborhood Temple Priestesses. We are growing all over the world now and have a yahoo group dancers can join and learn more what we do. This year 2010 it’s the theme for my annual January Hawaii Retreat. . . (see web sites). Anyways, We do deeply inspired dance works utilizing belly dance, unique veils dances, out door nature dances, shadow play, guided moving meditation, symbolic themes, festive ritual, aroma therapy, energy work, mythology and story telling. We are pretty diverse and do a lot of charity fund raising. Our goal is to connect, transform and bring our audience (many times mostly women like that Moroccan film clip) into that collective joy you speak of Kathreen.
By moving from our hearts we move other hearts.
Delilah
NOTES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren
http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2lameri.htm
http://www.visionarydance.com
http://www. delilahs-belly-dance-retreat.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Neighborhood-Temple-Priestess

]]> By: Petite FiFi http://bellydance-adventures.com/language-of-bellydance-part-ll/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Petite FiFi Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:47:00 +0000 http://bellydance-adventures.com/?p=1331#comment-194 Morrocan Road Trip is in order! I have seen this video and adore it. It makes me embrace my belly even more! Look up Morrocan Trance dance on YouTube for more... I would recommend checking out Lee Ali and taking one of her classes if she is ever in town. She is amazing! Woohoo! Petite FiFi Morrocan Road Trip is in order! I have seen this video and adore it. It makes me embrace my belly even more! Look up Morrocan Trance dance on YouTube for more… I would recommend checking out Lee Ali and taking one of her classes if she is ever in town. She is amazing!

Woohoo!
Petite FiFi

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