This is the first (I hope of many) Southern Mass NBDA sponsored haflas. It was a fundraiser for autism.

The following video is Moirae's performce: a choreographed sword dance to Helm's "Chiftetelli Unplugged" and tribal improv to Turku's "Sheydaii".

Moirae is made up of dancers Caitlin, Diana, and Rachel. When they met, it didn’t take long for the three to get in sync. They immediately liked each other and “fit together like a glove”. Moirae started as Phoenix Avathar’s student troupe and has recently made the switch to a professional troupe. They like to perform solo as well as together, with styles ranging from cabaret to tribal, from Gothic to Vaudeville, and everything in between. Their favorite quote: "It's all bellydance"!

www.moiraebellydance.com

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.

" ... our patchwork heritage is a strength ... "
- President Barack Obama during his inaugural speach, January 20, 2009

"You can't judge a scarf by the length of its thread; It's how you make it sway when you walk that matters..."
- Red Rob

"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