The other day, I read an article in some popular magazine (I don’t remember which) about how women science students should prepare themselves for college life. While I think women should be aware of how to survive some unfortunate aspects of being a women in science (less of us, sexism, etc.), I think there is [...]

I probably mentioned that I’ve registered for MassRaqs, the festival that Meiver is hosting this September. I’m frankly very excited. One of my goals this year was to attend a big festival. I was thinking Rakkasah (either one) or Las Vegas Intensive. Due to scheduling and cost, neither one of those events was in the [...]

In my R&R time, people have posted photos of the show from Wednesday. We look really good. I was particularly relieved that my makeup wasn’t too much or too little; my SO thought it was too much, but he also the type of person who thinks women look better without makeup than with it. I [...]

I didn’t realize how much wear my body had from the practices and performance until my Bharatanatyam class. My legs were giving out halfway through, which was shocking. Bharatanatyam is intense, but I haven’t felt like that since my first Bharatanatyam class. While I need to practice for Bharatanatyam and want to work on my [...]

I spent most of today resting. All the practices and the high of the performance yesterday called for today to be a day of rest. My neck is a bit sore today from the Khaleegi, but other than that, I feel pretty good. I think the show went well. Many people I respect said very [...]

I have been quite busy this week, so I apologize for the lateness in the review. The workshop was fantastic. It began similarly to the last shaabi one of his that I attended; he began with cultural information and song info. This time had an especially sweet addition: he handed out the song lyrics with [...]

Tempest, who is a member of the New England Dance community, wrote this article that was republished on Belly Dance New England about community. Although the audience is the Middle Eastern dance community, the values she promotes are generally good community values. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on FriendFeedshare via RedditShare with StumblersTumblr [...]

I’ll write something better tomorrow, but I wanted to share that Mohamed Shahin is truly an amazing instructor, even better than I remembered, and I hope he comes back to Boston soon! If he is going to be in your area, I really recommend learning from him even if you had learned from him before. [...]

There hasn’t been much to write about on my end, because I’ve been either at a dance class or working on personal things (to be discussed later). The rehearsal schedule has been ramped up, due to the performance being less than 2 weeks away. I’m surprised how taxing dance classes/rehearsal have been on my body, [...]