January, show, shimmies and snow.

Well January has been a funny old month, it has had some high's and lows.  My new class is one of the high points.  I seem to have gathered a very lovely group of women, some that I knew from when I used to teach a daytime class and some new ladies.  I am very pleased with how they are working and also the friendships they are developing.

The snow has been a cause of much annoyance, events got cancelled as did quite a few of my classes.  It is always a tricky decision to cancel a class because I know my students look forward to coming and I don't like to let them down plus I earn nothing if I have to cancel but at the end of the day safety is the most important factor.  I am very pleased to see the back of the snow and that my classes are all well attended again.  I have started to teach a silk fan veil dance to a really fab piece of music, I could not wait to get to class to teach it as it looks so fierce and I am really excited about using this new prop.

Last weekend I danced at The Urban Tarab show at the Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham with Shikidim.  I was a little nervous about this event as I did not have my usual troupe around me, I invited 2 of my students to join us, Bex and Lisa.  I knew they both knew the dances and perform well and they did not let me down, thanks ladies.  It is a tiny theatre and so you are very close to the audience which is a little nerve wracking and the lighting was such that you could not see the audience which made you wonder how you were being received but the applause and zaghareets seemed to suggest that Shikidim did well.

Urban Tarab Show.

I have lots of things coming up next month including a hen party and a birthday party booking and am busy organising lots of workshops for everyone.