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Baseema

offline 78 friends
joined on 08/13/06
last updated 05/04/08
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It's all about ... ME

Gender
Female
Age
40
Location
about me
My sparkly friend, Nastasia, gave me my dance name. Baseema is Arabic for "smiling". Isn't that nice?!

I have loads of fun dancing around work, the grocery store, my house ...

I love my husband.

Engineering pays the bills, but I'd rather be dancing ...
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Baseema & *Samantha*

At Spirit of the Tribes 2008
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Honey-Bubble-Chip (by Samantha)

Honey Drop highlight + Double Bubble SF shadow + Chocolate Chip liner
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Phoenix Avathar with students

Rachel, Diana, Phoenix, and Caitlin at stART on the Street, Worcester, September 16, 2007. Picture by Phoenix Avathar.
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Blue, silk veil

Hand tie-dyed silk veil made by my friend, Felicia.
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"The Shimmy Queen"

Leyla Jouvana and Roland
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Keeping the Goal in View

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What my friends say about me ...

November 21, 2007
I love Baseema! She's a sweet, generous, caring and kind person. She absolutely loves belly dance and is always a joy to watch!
October 8, 2007
MY SWEET Baseema!
YOU ARE beau.ti.ful, smart, & STRONG!
ThankYou for who you allow urself to be!
July 1, 2007
Baseema....is a very interesting and enlightened tribe friend....warm and gracious
Very prolific and photogenic
November 14, 2006
I adore Baseema! She was my very first belly-girlfriend :-)
She keeps me occupied during work with many long and funny emails - she listens to trials and tribulations of work, men, perfecting the 3/4 shimmy and general nonsense! Oh, and she's been to Africa!

Huge sweetheart, always smiling, wonderful friend...I'm lucky to have her (and her hubby!) in my life!
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Moirae

Moirae, meaning "the Fates," is a dark tribal fusion student troupe made up of dancers Baseema, Cailtin, and Diana of Dancing Ember Studio. The three dancers got together in one of Phoenix's classes and worked so well together that they decided to form their own small troupe. They have performed at several Za-Beth events in Boston, Raks Spooki II, and the People's Choice Awards. They have won two awards - for best costuming and for most original choreography/performance at the Boston NBDA People's Choice Awards.

About the following videos:
The NBDA People's Choice Awards - Tribal Fusion to Solace's "Nataraja" - Choregraphed by Phoenix Avathar.
Za-Beth's Holiday Hafla (a fundraiser to collect toys for children at the Home for Little Wanderers orphanage) - Improved!

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NBDA People's Choice Awards

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Za-Beth's Holiday Hafla

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Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness

... has never danced in the rain - Author Unknown (Me, sword dancing at the NH Ren Faire, 2007)
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Freeze! - Wish I could have been there!

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Love the Body You're In

No media image can stand up to the certainty of nature. I’ve never considered a tree to be “too large” or its surface needing to be changed in any way. Nature thrives on variety and diversity; it is never too much or too little, too fat, thin, dimpled, wrinkled, small, big, hairy, ugly-it just is. Our choice remains to claim that most basic freedom: to just be and love who we really are.

Why do we, as a society, allow false notions to define us? Do you want to spend your life allowing others-the media, marketers-to set the standards by which you will be judged, to which you can never truly measure up?

Quoted from an article that appeared in Massage Magazine
“Images of Beauty” written by Sonia Osorio


You are wonderful
You are beautiful
Enjoy the person you spend time with when you are alone
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The above blog was stolen from Argyle.

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Favorite Quotes

"It's the Tai Chi of belly dance."
- Kat's Dad's take on tribal style belly dance

"The smile always brings out the sun, regardless of what's going on up above..."
- Red Rob

"If you can walk, you can dance."
- Zimbabwe saying

"Yay for science geeks in bellydance!"
- Lilya

"When you change the way you look at things ... the things you look at
change."
- W. Dyer

"Those who put in the mental energy, not just the physical energy, follow their goals from theory to mission accomplished.”
- PMC Founder Billy Starr

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Friends I Still Have to Meet