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reward for Zoes thingys! Anybody got a lead???

ZoeCablooey — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:59:15 GMT

Our car was broken into on thursday, and David and I and are trying to recover our valuable and irreplaceable performance gear. We just want it back, we are offering a reward, and no questions asked. The items are: a turkish banjo with a thin neck and a round wooden head, with a pick-up 3 dance costumes heavily decorated with coins and beads, one black and white, one gold-ish, and one black with fabric floral elemens and old keys on it. All are covered in antique jewelry About 12 large and heavy silver indian bracelets, antique as well Two metallic scarves-covered in silver thread with designs A metal box with fancy trims and rhinestone flowers in it We need these things to perform, and without them we are having hard times indeed! Please if you can help us, we will be so grateful!!!! ZOe

Tribal LA workshops with ZOE this weeked!!!!!!

ZoeCablooey — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:36:44 GMT

Check out www.tribal-la.com I am teaching 2 workshops, one saturday at 11 and one sunday at 9! A two day celebration of tribal bellydance, taking place at the: Glendale Civic Auditorium 1401 N. Verdugo Road in Glendale, CA 91208 Saturday, September 27 * 12:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. * 8:00 p.m. (Evening Show) Sunday, September 28 * 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. * 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. (Bellydance Superstars Auditions

EAST COAST tour dates for fall (and San Francsico)

ZoeCablooey — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:32:00 GMT

September 2nd-19th: US Tour with the Yard Dogs Road Show: 9/6 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA 9/11 Georgia Theatre Athens, GA 9/12 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA 9/13 Orange Peel Asheville, NC 9/14 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN 9/19 The Birchmere Alexandria, VA Oh, and my new website is gonna Kick Serious ASS!!!!!

Beats Antique needs a pro drum kit for Spirit of the tribes!!!!

ZoeCablooey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:16:19 GMT

Help! Calling all bellydancers with drummer boyfriends (theres lots of ya right?) We are trying to get a professional quality drum kit for Spirit....Paying to fly it there has proven to be prohibitively expensive. Of course for your trouble we would get you on the guest list....

Yard Dogs Road Show...New Paradigm – The Great Unexpected

ZoeCablooey — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:24:00 GMT

New Paradigm – The Great Unexpected WE HAVE A NEW WEB SITE ! http://www.yarddogsroadshow.com There HAS been a feeling of the impossible and unexpected around here. We just flew our entire show to Portugal and it WORKED. Our magic chicken Josephine Baker is laying eggs by the dozen. And in our never-ending attempt to define exactly what it is that we do, we have built an ENTIRELY new web site. The old site has been scattered to the wind. Now we have more room to daydream. And if all goes well, these daydreams will be manifesting soon, on a stage near you. WE ARE TAKING THE SKELETON APART AND PUTTING IT BACK TOGETHER AGAIN - THE NEW ARRANGEMENT MAY BE A BIT UNUSUAL WE SEE MOUNTAINS AND SUNSHINE - LAKES AND SLEEPING ANIMALS See you soon. The Yard Dogs

Do you ever wish there was more Tribal bellydance music made by Dancers.....

ZoeCablooey — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:58:08 GMT

I did too, so I got together with two incredibly talented musicians, David Satori and Tommy Cappel, and we made one. It will be available on BDSS tables, and hopefully everywhere else. I gotta tell ya, it's such a great experience, to sit down while the music is being created, and say, hey, can you put a few hits here, and howsabout a drum solo. I am so excited!!! Ackackackackack!!!

oooh Tattooss...

ZoeCablooey — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:33:51 GMT

I realized today that not all body parts are created equal (by equal I mean ratio of pain receptors per square inch) My belly is sssoooorreee... That poor tattoo artist (the amazing sweet Amy Justin at sacred rose). She started the outline and I practically flew across the room and swallowed a bunch of Advil before one could say purple buffalo. Thank gawd the shading wasn't like that. I am a certified weenie. But ooohhh it was worth it. Uh.

I'm teaching a workshop in the bay area this Saturday

ZoeCablooey — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:32:52 GMT

Saturday, October 14, 2006 more on this date 2:00 PM Workshop in San Rafael with Aruna and Dyonese, World Dance Fitness Center Exquisitely Slow tribal moves Saturday October 14th 2:00 to 4:00 40 Greenfield Ave., San Anselmo, CA 94960 415-457-8787 Just a few spots left!

Wonderful Sponsers!!!!

ZoeCablooey — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:31:24 GMT

I am currently touring with the Yard Dogs Road show, and I have been teaching a few bellydance workshops along the way. I have been super lucky to get to work with amazing sponsers. I can't say enough about these ladies organizational skills, and ability to make one feel relaxed and taken care of! I am speaking of the wonderful Keishi of New York, and Jenna of Newport News. Talk about Rad! New York was a whirlwind of activity, and we booked the class a few hours in Manhattan before a Yard Dog show, so it had the potential to be really hectic. But Keishi had it all worked out, and the class went super smooth. It was a real treat to get to work with the east coast ladies! Then afterwards Keishi took me all over Manhattan, and then there was the live hip-hop jam! I had a blast, lemmee tell yah! And then next week to Newport News with Jenna, her wonderful Daughter Dana (and very talented with the voi), and of course Ju-linn (did I spell that right?) Evrything down to a coffee in my hand before hunkering down was all set up. And did those ladies ever bust ass! Jeez guys! Talk about hard workers! Two absolutely fantastic experiences, thanks guys!

BDSS American Tour....

ZoeCablooey — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:06:45 GMT

Ever wanted to know what touring was lIke? Well...fergit the glamour. Try Groundhog Day, you know, that movie with Bill Murray, where he keeps waking up to the same thing every day, over and over, and almost goes crazy, until he realizes that it's a chance to serve something bigger than himself, and not to sound too cheezy (too late), It's when you realize that even though to you, night after night it's the same show, the people out there in the audience are seeing it for the first time, are completely taken in, and it's pretty special to them. And you gotta respect and love that, and, really, that's where the glamour is. So, I guess, I take that back.... P.S. Barbara Copeland is Lord of the Dance. Rah. Yes Rah.

My Baby in Africa! www.aphrodesia.org

ZoeCablooey — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:02:02 GMT

So I've got this amazing man over in Ghana with his band Aphrodesia, doing some pretty amazing stuff, promoting alternatives to petroleum in a country where everyone is struggling to survive under a money and Oil corrupt Government, bringing water filters that make the well water drinkable, which otherwise would make the people ill or dead, dirt poor people that pay for every glass of water they drink.....I am very proud of him and the people in Aphrodesia, and I want people to know about what they are doing, and maybe get involved in his group, Clean Fuel Caravan Coalition, a group that is struggling to get funds for what is a very significant social and environmental issue right now. Check out the Africa blog at www.aphrodesia.org (very interesting and entertaining read), you can also find links there to the Coalition, to find ways to convert your vehicle to vegetable oil, or find out about Biodiesel stations in your area that run off of regular diesal engines. And for the ladies who love the Bellydance Superstars....We are trying to get a bus, a bigger bus that has lots of room to stretch and sleep.....wouldn't it be wonderful if that bus ran on veggie oil? Or biodiesel? I think so too....a company like BDSS is a great example to others and running our bus on fuel that is not supporting wars in the middle east, or countries struggling under the choke of oil money sounds like a great thing to do. So let them know! l know I'm going to...

Anon Salon Indigo Video

ZoeCablooey — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:33:40 GMT

Ooh...the sound isn't great, but the video quality is pretty good. We look so good together! Like apples...and apples, I guess Check it out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5303290351424311474&q=belly+dance

I like tribe the way it was!

ZoeCablooey — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:04:45 GMT

Change it back. It so tacky I can't stand it!

Sunday Night at Amnesia

ZoeCablooey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:34:54 GMT

What a Blowout!!!! I just got home from an amazing night of Dancing and Partying with the best people ever....I was lucky enough to share the stage with some incredibly talented Ladies, and Gentlemen. The music was insane, and It was friggin packed...thanks to everybody who came out and supported. Mira Betz was (as usual) amazing, Liz Strong "oh my gawd" (actual quote repeated constantly as she was performing by a girl sitting next to me), Christina Canusaurasssss...Yeah, that woman moves like no other. And the Ultra Gypsies were out in force with Jill and Rose kicking ass, and Holly Gibson, you've got "ut", lady, yes you dooo. And as if the audience hadn't busted enough of a nut, six times at this point (at least), This Klezmer band rocks it better than Slayer, and some nutjob accordion player is freaking out on the bar (Dan Cantrel, to be exact), and the entire room is Flipping out, its sooooo fucking good (yes, the F word, used exactly as it should be), I, at a certain moment, looked out on the utter chaos and knew that at that moment, everything was good with the world....

New Years is Over!

ZoeCablooey — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:33:08 GMT

I got the worst Laryngitis ever from that night and ended up spending all of the next day in bed recovering with lots of tea. It was worth it though....The Yard Dogs show was amazing, and I'll tell ya, there is nothing more disconcerting as trying not to get thrown off by a giant image of your head, so frickin big that you can see your pores. I was doing my slow, supposedly sultry sword dance, and I turn around (back to the audience) and KAPOW!&*$!, holy crap! It's my giant head on the screen! And I'm like, hey look at that zit on my back, ew oh my hair is soo messy, and shit my bra, its not clasped right!!! Oh, yeah, I'm supposed to be dancing, do do do, putting the sword on my head, wow, look how frickin big that thing is...wierd, okay dancing.... Anywhooo...It was a blast, and I got to ring in the new year with some serious tribal limbo! Hee Hee...

Oh heavenly food...

ZoeCablooey — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:08:41 GMT

I just returned from France, and I did the first thing on my list to do when I got home, eat Huevos Rancheros! Oh beans how I love you, and how impossible you are to get in france! The closest thing we could find to a burrito was getting rice wraps and putting kidney beans in them (no we didn't do that, ewwww). And I think I can never eat tuna again...or panini, or tomatos, or mozzarella. Next on my list I must eat Sushi, Indian food, and Ethiopian...Mmmmmm...

BDSS tour...

ZoeCablooey — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:13:15 GMT

Wow...2 months in europe, crazy. Kinda feel like I was ripped out of reality and placed in another kooky kind of reality...felt like forever and no time at all. I saw some of the most beautiful architecture I've ever seen, and graveyards, lots of incredibly beautiful graveyards. The Pere La Chaise in Paris was exquisite, it's kind of like a city for the dead. I guess that's exactly what it's like. Some of the particularely old headstones were smooth from age, and you could barely see the names anymore...old trees had dug their roots into the very very old graves, and stone was all smashed up...my mother would laugh, because it's typical of me...one afternoon off and instead of going to the eiffel tower I check out the graveyard. The place we lived had a graveyard next to it in Monaco, and miss Josephine Baker was placed in that dirt...pretty lucky dirt, I'd say. She danced at the Monte Carlo..on the same stage as us. When we left all the plants we had been caring for in the months that passed were place on her grave. And here I sit in a hotel in london staying up late so I can beat jeat lag tomorrow...

post-David Byrne Tour

ZoeCablooey — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:06:36 GMT

Wow...I'm still floating in a haze of delerium and craziness from those shows....