Tribal Takeover of Durban!

Hi Everyone,

This week's post is all about what is happening in my bellydance world this November. Some exciting events and happenings and some future blog-posts coming up as a result.

Firstly this coming weekend is our dress rehearsal for our studio showcase (more about that in a bit), so this week is practice and costume frenzy time. Our house looks like a fabric and textiles fairy puked up all over it :P hehe.

In the evening of the 16th we have been asked to dance in the Belly Diva's studio hafla. It is going to be fun because they have asked a few durban/kzn based studios as well as some other dance styles to perform - and we get to do an ATS™ number as well (only 2nd time ever). Dance Tribe will be doing a sneak peak by dancing one of our show numbers. The Divas are also donating for a good cause- toys for "Toys for joy/Toy story".

Next up are workshops with Kristine Adams of FatChanceBellydance™ in San Francisco.She is going around the world documenting ATS™ in every country and city she can. She spent a whole year on just South America. She has been in SA since Oct and has already done Joburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, we are next! YAY! Can't wait to learn from her. Check out her details and all about her journey here: From the Belly of a Traveler

Ok the big one we have been preparing for is our show "Salmagundi"- which we are doing in collaboration with "Left of Centre Dance" as both are small studios. We are so excited for it as it is both Ioleen and my first shows as directors of our studios and we have such variety of music and dancing that its sure to be a cracker. It has seriously been a breeze working together and organising everything as a team, plus we even choreographed a few pieces together and managed not to step on each-others toes. I am pretty stoked. We are honoured to have Kristine dancing in our show and also to have 3 out of 3 tribal teachers in Durban dancing TOGETHER on stage in the "Durban Tribal Collective ATS™ troupe". I think that's pretty special and amazing!
We are also raising money for Headway The KZN head injuries association. They do amazing work with accident victims and stroke patients.  We want to give them a BIG FAT donation so any support is appreciated. here is the link to get tickets : Salmagundi .

Hope to see some of you at these events and I need to get back to work and practice... so ..............

lots of love and shimmies