Its Been a while

but I'm still here... Have a Happy Day! :)

Do Dee Dum dumm

Heh, Got my music, got my coach. Life is bliss...............

Ooooooops

I did it again. Since Lillies of Valley is canceled. Looks like I'll be entering Wiggles of West Competition. I'm only two months behind in preparation and have no idea what to wear for a costume.... but I'm a smart gal and I'll figure it out....

email list (Workshop Series)

I am putting together an email list to promote my classes/workshops and events I'm sponsoring.
If you would like to be on it. E-mail me at aratia@msn.com with your email address and I will
put you on the list if I have not sent you an email already to Opt out... I don't want to be sending
my info to people who are not interested..

I am currently developing a workshop series Titled: The Art of Belly Dance.
and will soon be starting with my first workshop titled: What it takes!
What it takes is inspired by the Actor Frank Langella and his philosophy
on Acting. His beliefs can be directly applied to the art of dancing...
This was a big AHHA moment for me and I am excited to share this information
and apply it to belly dance.....



Other workshops for this series in-development are for Fusion dancing, musicality interpretation, Creative dance.
and tools for developing choreography's. Unlike most workshops these workshops will be
limited to smaller number of people based on content of workshop. I feel it is more important to teach and
apply concepts to smaller groups so dancers can walk out of the workshop with practical knowledge and appliance of
principles. If that makes sense.

Any hoooo if you would like to be on the list let me know.....

Its that time of year again (Artist's Way III)

Every year at this time, I begin the journey a new by doing the Artist's Way. This will be my third time going through the book and exercises. Each year it gets better and better. I am looking forward to the new discoveries and seeing how much I've changed or not changed. This year I am going to read my Morning pages from the previous two years. I have never read them so it will be exciting to see how my dance and life has progressed or not progressed. Either way it will be a growing experience... :)

What a strange morning

Sunday morning was very strange. I woke up at 3:00 am and my mind became flooded with a lot of information. It started first with my own personal development and improvements on my defects of character. I am going to keep that information private and all my thoughts and realizations which it pertains to, but it brought back into my mind a self help book that had read many many years ago. I can not recall the name of the book at this moment but in it, it describes how Benjamin Franklin also became aware of his short comings and how he made a plan to improve and change his bad habits. I am now instituting his concept into my life. I consider that the most important information i received for a solution to my current life problems.

The flood of information wasn't just about personal character development, it was also about my dance and about instructing and doing workshops. I was given ideas for subject matter and content for workshops. I soon realized that all this information was just to important for me to turn over and go back to sleep. So I got up, and began writing it all down on paper.

I was flooded with information how to improve my dance, workshops, adding to and or changing the structure of my lesson plans. Ideas for analogies for describing movements, I was given ideas for new dance combinations. Important tid bits of information which was given to me by my instructors which I over looked or had not applied and now taking some of that information to the next level and applying it on a broader spectrum.

I spent three and half hours of just writing it all this information down on paper and could have written much much more, but when I finally looked up at the clock and it said 6:30 am, I had to force myself to stop and say enough. I needed to get my proper rest so I could teach my first belly dance class. I owed it to myself and my students. Giving a class when your tired and exhausted from the lack of sleep is not the way to be a good instructor so I forced my self to go back to bed.

This has never happened to me before. I believe everything I received was the universe, God, giving me the answers to my prayers. So shall you ask, so shall you receive.

Facebook

if you are on Facebook please add me as a friend. It is more friendly for posting events/sending messages than Tribe.
You can find me as Angela DiCaprio on facebook.

Warning beware what you pray for

So feeling lonely last night I prayed for someone to enter my life. Today's Horoscope: Someone may come storming into your world today. From out of the blue a relationship I had resigned to give up comes back into my life. She found my number and got the nerve up to call me. We had a nice chat... Should be seeing each other soon. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

My Baby Girl

Is officially Engaged!!! Woo Hoo!!