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Astrid

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joined on 10/26/07
last updated 05/15/08
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May 10, 2008
I just checked out Astrid's Aala Dameeti performance part 1 and 2 and I love the way she has her own style and interprets the music. She's very womanly and sensual and-it sounds corny-but after watching the videos I actually had a tear. The Japanese people there seem so appreciative of her sharing her art-it's intimate and heartening. Belly dance used to be this way a lot, each woman her own style, a lot now, too much alike. The music is very nice as well.

Keep on dancin' Astrid!
January 4, 2008
About Astrid the poet . . .

“And if you want to know more about me, my poetry is maybe just about as naked as I get, emotionally”, you said, and that you need not to say to a man from orient twice. My dear Astrid: I die to see you naked as you get!

Well know I have been reading your love poems and I am very thankful to may to take a look at the colourful world inside you. Sometimes there is this intellectual woman’s voice I hear, she knows different perspectives and has her own surprising view about the world. The other time there is this suffering archetype lover burning in the fire of love and nostalgia eyes full tears asking for even more fire and pain.

But there is beyond and above this, there is a drunken poet in you, her creations are like magic, here is alchemic transformation on work. The poet colour the life with heavenly yet humanise metaphoric silky substances:
But you moved like a cat
And so I stretched my body
Under yours and relaxed . . .

Not the intelligent brain of the poet and not the echo of the burning prototype lover in pain but the drunken heart is talking to as, no even better, singing for us the hymen you only hear in the temple of the priestess wine of love worshipping:
. . .
And the violets are
Piercing their petals
Through the melting snow
Is when I will feel your hands on my skin
When the sky turns red
And the birds are silent
And the thunderclouds gather behind the horizon
Is when I will feel your lips touch my ear
When the lightning cracks
And the thunder rolls
Is when I will cry your name

And it is then that my heart trembling and I feel honoured, touched and (allow me to say it like it is) in love with the poet. I bow for you. Thou Art God.

With love and respect,

Shervin
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Turkiye Seyahat 6- Nargile Cafe Ölüdeniz

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Turkiye Seyahat 5- making friends ; )

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Turkiye Seyahat 4, Göreme restaurant 1

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Turkiye Seyahat 3- Inside a caravanserai

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Turkiye Seyahat 2- my Turkish road movie

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Turkiye Sevahat series- my Turkish movie

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dancing til I'm gone

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Dancing to a Nour Mehana song

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self-styled gypsy dancing Turkish Rom

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my take on Sheva- improvised drum solo

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a gift from a poet

there is a deep n
subtle longing
in your motions
there is desire behind the words
body
beyond
the concepts
in that body
there is
a intensive being
fire
in that fire of you
one need to burn
and by burning in you
touch you deeply . . .


love,
Shervin

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Dance, Lalla...abandon yourself

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dancing to Aynur

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Re: Flutters: How???? (in Bellydance Movements) tried to answer your posting, Indo..., look further down.
discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:46 AM
Re: Flutters: How???? (in Bellydance Movements) This posting above was addressed to the girl whos chest starts moving. Sometimes my postings get posted where I clicked for them sometimes further down, it is a hit and miss thing withy tribe, strange. I hope, this one will go right under the one ... read more
discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:45 AM
Re: Flutters: How???? (in Bellydance Movements) That means, your breathing is too flat. Funny, the way the dancer described it above is exactly how I have been doing it and nobody taught me, I just watched Farhana and some others.
discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:43 AM
Re: Troubles with Spotting (in Bellydance Movements) Look at your thumb in the direction of which you are spinning. Sufi students do this too when they learn dervish whirling. The thumb is a still spot in the whirl, it does not change places.
discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:41 AM
Re: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant (in I just finished reading...) Actually, in the beginning of the book there is a list. It is mostly books on things Jewish.
discussion post on Fri, May 16, 2008 - 5:37 AM
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My Blog

I found this article in the Japan Times yesterday which was taken from the LA Times. I am noone to keep harping on the days of the Nazis but this description of a good human being touched me deeply. May Irena Sendler rest in peace, we are grateful to her.

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Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strange... read more
Wed, May 14, 2008 - 6:24 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
I am making a road movie of my travel through Turkey. Here is part one:
driving into Cappadokia on the overnight bus. I added a soundtrack, too...
part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch
I am very proud of myself now. ; ) You can watch it here on my profile or on youtube:
part 2
www.youtube.com/watch
part 3
www.youtube.com/watch
part 4
www.youtube.com/watch
part 5
www.youtube.com/watch
Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:27 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
Today I arrived at Devadasi studio with a bad cold, coughing and with pains in my chest, but it was soon forgotten.
As soon as I started dancing, I noticed that the whole room was vibrating with energy. Mishaal has been working on her theme for tribal fest... Which is apparently something very esoteric.
When I danced, my whole body, which had been riddled with a cold minutes ago, was filled with energy, my spine feeling soft and pliant,. adapting to whichever way I wanted to move. In fact, ... read more
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 9:39 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
(part 1 is one of the first blog entries here, written on Nov.4th 2007)

Yesterday I went to the monthly meeting of the crazy English poets in Tokyo. When I arrived I told the moderator that since I had not written anything in several months and had, instead, done nothing but dancing, I thought, I might dance for them instead, today. He put me on the list, sandwiched between the only two other poetesses present, the first one of which read a very candid poem about the 4 types of men a woma... read more
Sun, May 4, 2008 - 10:17 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Words of wisdom from our Tango-L member Keith Elshaw in Canada:

The milonga WAS given to us by the gods to bless our souls with joy and happiness.

But, it seems to me, the essence of milonga is not immediately devined by
the new lover of tango. Milonga is like tango itself; also like what an
interesting woman may do to an ardent gentleman admirer: kind of retreat
behind a veil while the pilgrim makes his journey to a sufficient level of
understanding that the veil may be safely let ... read more
Sat, May 3, 2008 - 8:41 PM permalink - 1 comment
 
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