Mediterranean Festival!

Hi guys,

Well, I always feel kinda weird talking about my dancing, I feel like people maybe think I'm just all about me when I do...

But hey, who am I kidding? It IS all about me! :-)

So with that said, just want to post a little bit about the big festival this weekend that's an annual occurence, the Mediterranean Fantasy Festival. It's a festival of bellydancers and also promotes any kind of eastern dance. I am performing twice, Saturday morning at 10:48 a.m. with my Indian dance troupe on the indoor stage and then bellydance at 2-something on Sunday on the outdoor stage with my troupe and some of my teacher's students.

I find that people often confuse Indian dance with bellydance, so let me enlighten. There are many many forms of Indian dance, my company combines the classical Indian Kathak dances with modern Hindi film dancing. Kathak originates in India from the time of the Mughal empire and the word Kathak means "storytelling". Traditional Kathak "tells" stories about the Hindu deities from the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedas.

Modern Hindi film dance is derived from Kathak but pulls from lots of folk dancing and western style dancing such as salsa, hip hop, bellydance, jazz, etc.

I figure most of you probably know what bellydance is. ;-)

Anyway, always happy to have people come to my performances or ask questions, I love to talk dance!