Are you free on Saturday?!

Turkish Ottoman Harem Style and Turkish Gypsy Bellydance with The Amazing Ozgen

Saturday 3rd May at Edmund Hall Spondon
Derby 2pm-5pm
£25.


Ozgen has performed with the ‘Sultans of the Dance’ travelling show in Turkey and is trained in many different styles of dance from Turkish belly dance to Salsa.
An amazing performer, and great teacher. Don’t miss the Ozgen Experience!

To book contact me by email or phone. Advance booking required, places limited.

Mehifsa workshops- (Hafsa and Diana Mehira)
There are still places left for this!
Be quick and come join the fun!

‘Dancing to the beat of the drum’- Sunday April 20th, -Nottingham, 11-2pm, £20.

‘Egyptian and Turkish styles with floor work’
Derby- Edmund Hall, 2-5pm Sat July 5th.
Nottingham- St Andrews Community Hall 11-2pm.
Both workshops £25 each.

Contact mehifsa@yahoo.co.uk
For details and booking

Gogol Bordello

Ahhhhhh...
They were rather marvelous!
It actually felt like they were enjoying themselves and were bothered about the kind of night that we were having....
Go see them if you can!
Great crowd too...Long live Rock City.

Sunday, Sunday

and what a lovely dancetastic one it was too...
A whole 3 hours of intensive instruction in a mirrored studio from Donna and Lezlie, with a private individual feedback session too....it was really useful, with some pleasant surprises about what I CAN do! (a novelty!)
Then in the evening Desert Jewels - new venue at FiveLamps in Derby...featuring Raven, Tatty, Diana and Ozgen......pictures to follow....though I have a video of Ozgen for private viewing..........;)

Tarab

Phew.....3am......just got home....
Lovely night and a beautiful show. Drank far too much wine though!
Well done all those dancing and all the scurrier arounders....
Hope there will be another event like this again soon!

Hafla...

Had a lovely time at the Hafla in Stoke! Thanks to everyone who helped to make it happen. Good food, pleasant friendly bar staff, lovely things to buy, lots of varied performances from lots of different people. Everyone there made us feel really welcome! Thankyou! It was also great to get my ATS improve groove on again...feels like AGES since I last performed with the tribal mussis as a tribal duet! Just hope it didn't look too rusty!

Kitten

Ahhhwwwwwwwww.....
Monty the kitten......
Belongs to neighbours, not me...
Not throttling him.....though it sort of looks like I am.....
He's 7 weeks old.....

Haflas

There are just so many at the moment!
Went to a lovely one on Saturday in Nottingham (thanks Tatty).
I really liked the venue, even if it was a bit chilly! There were mugs of tea and coffee to warm up with.
Real effort had been made to create a stage area with 'wings' to enter from, and large lengths of fabric created a canopy to dance under. One of our little student caberet gang won the Luxor holiday prize in the raffle, which was very exciting too!
We also got little boxes of chocolates for our performance! Nice!

That There London

So at the last minute Paul is too ill to go.
We've paid for the coach seats (a Repton to Marble Arch and back locally arranged thingy)
so I think sod it, I shall go alone..... bit late to ask anyone to join me (7am....due to leave in an hour)
So I wandered around trying and failing to shop and settled on the British Museum in the end. Sat around in there drawing dragons with other people who wanted a sit down but not a cup of tea.... meandered around Africa and the Americas for a change...bugged the desk about First Emperor exhibition...sold out again. Wandered around King's Library, love what they've done with that. Had a nice chat about museums with a curator then headed off to Oxford Street. At the gate I met someone with a spare ticket to the exhibition, so I bought it from him - ta where-ever you are....hope you found the tall blonde brother/cousin person.....- and had a lovely wander round that. After that it was all shoes and doughnuts in Selfridges.....

Left Behind

Booooooooooooo......
Everyone's going to Belly Dance Congress and I can't cause of no stupid money and smelly work.
The giant said we could have congress at home instead, but it's not the same........
also don't think he meant anything to do with dancing.....

Poi Joi and all things bare-foot......

Had a loverly damp time.......
Love doing that poi business!
Cats transfixed by my demo to giant when I got home.... 3 sets of whiskers following those tails!
Glad I can swing 'em and laugh at the same time!
Thankyou weeeeeza and co for all the headaches you had.... will post daft photos after hot bath number three!
Think the photos will tell a better tale than my typos! X