Last week I attended a the Sirocco Festival for the first time. I very much enjoyed the event although the show on the Friday night was a bit hit and miss. There were some fabulous performances, Hilde being my favourite, I really enjoyed both of her dances. I loved watching Karim Nagi throw himself around the stage whilst drumming but did not enjoy his finger cymbal thing and was disappointed that he did not do more drumming as I know he is an awesome drummer. I enjoyed Julian Brustick, a very elegant dancer but was not overly impressed with Anasma. I have to say Anasma is a fab dancer but what she did bore no resemblance to Belly Dance - it was gymnastics/mime. I know the art form has moved on and I am all for fusing different dance styles but I do think we should keep some elements of Belly Dance in our performance if we are perfoming in a Belly Dance show.
I enjoyed the workshops I did - Newarra totally exhausted me with her energy but I loved learning both Shaabi and Khaleegy with her. My favourite workshop though was with juliana Brustick - she taught Baladi veil and I was totally inspired to incorporate this into my own repertoire soon - such a graceful way to dance and I hope I can do it with the same elegance and poise which she has.
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