Frenzy recedes
Sep. 2nd, 2005 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bethlakshmiWork wise:
- document is out. Now the customer's email is screening out any attachment format known to man... but that's not my problem. My boss is handling it.
- slides are 1/2 done, and my boss liked the first half, with minor tweaks. Yay!
- dancing ladies happily watched my Baby Dolls piece. I ended up doing a geeky diatribe on what Burlesque was, what Burlesque revival is, and how it's different from Middle Eastern dance and modern stripping. General reception - extremely positive. Through some twist of fate, I got the tassels moving in circles! It was from clean chest moves, I think. Perhaps it is a zen thing - maybe thinking too hard about it makes it not work... must practice more. Got some loaner veils so I can do without the jarring black acetate veil, and have it look slightly less like a classic burqua. And we, also, agreed the music needs to change - for a different reason. Apparently the intro sequence is not a taqsim, but a call to prayer, so having someone come out in a burquaesque headwrap, and do a leg-show-off is beyond jarring into vaguely sacreligious. This will be much ameliorated by me reworking it into "Istanbul not Constanstiople" which will immediately strike a different tone.
- rest of class was getting our bodies to remember how this Middle Eastern Dance thing works. Admittedly, I'm more stretched and practiced than most - having just done a week of ambitious dance. But even so - I haven't been using ALL the Middle Eastern Muscles - Indian and Burlesque use different muscle groups, and dancing flat out Middle Eastern was still a rediscovery of a few tight spots. :) Glad to have hammered them out.
- dancing ladies loved my costuming mojo for the Burlesque peice. Now I'm thinking of doing a underwear/pasty workshop, having found a new skillset. Hmm... the marketeer in me thinks... would this be a good venue for the Baby Dolls? I'll teach the dancing ladies for free becuase I love them and our troupe works because we all go and "steal" info and bring it back to play with. But maybe the Baby Dolls could do a day long, real money (say $40-60 per student) workshop on the same, where we provide a selection of materials, hot glue guns, sewing machines, etc, and show folks how.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mermaidlady and I have have enough costuming skills that either one of us could run this and if we run it together, then we can back each other up for the hands on stuff. It's the kind of one foot in the door thing that just might dredge up a few interested dancers, after all - the people who come to make such things, would (theoretically) be interested in *wearing* them somewhere! Hmm...
Reminds me of FCBD (Fat Chance Belly Dance) - they do a really great job at being:
- a performance troupe
- a school for dance teaching
- a standardization of a dance style
- a source for pre-made costume bits
- a source for patterns/costume education
All of which they make money of, and their training mechanisms feed their performance troupe.
Hmm...
- now for another choreography - I promised I'd get another one ready for the first set of shows - we need the bodies. I'm looking forward to the challenge. I have an order for a bunch of supplies at cheaptrims.com, including:
- stretch rhinestones - these things are FABULOUS!
- hanging beads on ribbon tape
- feathers on ribbon tape
- bag of rosettes
As usual - cheaptrims has simply fabulous prices. Crossing fingers that red rosettes will match the red fringe Anne has donated to the troupe - I think there's some red/white/black costume, in non-Middle Eastern style coming. Must scour some used clothing stores, and see if I can find a formal dress I can cut up and trim appropriately, so I don't have to sew a fancy skirt from scratch. It's all about speed at this point. Work smart, not hard.
- document is out. Now the customer's email is screening out any attachment format known to man... but that's not my problem. My boss is handling it.
- slides are 1/2 done, and my boss liked the first half, with minor tweaks. Yay!
- dancing ladies happily watched my Baby Dolls piece. I ended up doing a geeky diatribe on what Burlesque was, what Burlesque revival is, and how it's different from Middle Eastern dance and modern stripping. General reception - extremely positive. Through some twist of fate, I got the tassels moving in circles! It was from clean chest moves, I think. Perhaps it is a zen thing - maybe thinking too hard about it makes it not work... must practice more. Got some loaner veils so I can do without the jarring black acetate veil, and have it look slightly less like a classic burqua. And we, also, agreed the music needs to change - for a different reason. Apparently the intro sequence is not a taqsim, but a call to prayer, so having someone come out in a burquaesque headwrap, and do a leg-show-off is beyond jarring into vaguely sacreligious. This will be much ameliorated by me reworking it into "Istanbul not Constanstiople" which will immediately strike a different tone.
- rest of class was getting our bodies to remember how this Middle Eastern Dance thing works. Admittedly, I'm more stretched and practiced than most - having just done a week of ambitious dance. But even so - I haven't been using ALL the Middle Eastern Muscles - Indian and Burlesque use different muscle groups, and dancing flat out Middle Eastern was still a rediscovery of a few tight spots. :) Glad to have hammered them out.
- dancing ladies loved my costuming mojo for the Burlesque peice. Now I'm thinking of doing a underwear/pasty workshop, having found a new skillset. Hmm... the marketeer in me thinks... would this be a good venue for the Baby Dolls? I'll teach the dancing ladies for free becuase I love them and our troupe works because we all go and "steal" info and bring it back to play with. But maybe the Baby Dolls could do a day long, real money (say $40-60 per student) workshop on the same, where we provide a selection of materials, hot glue guns, sewing machines, etc, and show folks how.
mermaidlady and I have have enough costuming skills that either one of us could run this and if we run it together, then we can back each other up for the hands on stuff. It's the kind of one foot in the door thing that just might dredge up a few interested dancers, after all - the people who come to make such things, would (theoretically) be interested in *wearing* them somewhere! Hmm...Reminds me of FCBD (Fat Chance Belly Dance) - they do a really great job at being:
- a performance troupe
- a school for dance teaching
- a standardization of a dance style
- a source for pre-made costume bits
- a source for patterns/costume education
All of which they make money of, and their training mechanisms feed their performance troupe.
Hmm...
- now for another choreography - I promised I'd get another one ready for the first set of shows - we need the bodies. I'm looking forward to the challenge. I have an order for a bunch of supplies at cheaptrims.com, including:
- stretch rhinestones - these things are FABULOUS!
- hanging beads on ribbon tape
- feathers on ribbon tape
- bag of rosettes
As usual - cheaptrims has simply fabulous prices. Crossing fingers that red rosettes will match the red fringe Anne has donated to the troupe - I think there's some red/white/black costume, in non-Middle Eastern style coming. Must scour some used clothing stores, and see if I can find a formal dress I can cut up and trim appropriately, so I don't have to sew a fancy skirt from scratch. It's all about speed at this point. Work smart, not hard.
