Blue Moon's "Props" hafla

I was invited to dance with Mara and Nadia of the Moorish Gypsy Tribe for this performance. We did a beautiful Isis Wings performance that was choreographed by Mara. I had so much fun dancing with them.

After the performance we stayed and danced the night away.



Mara, Kasha, Amara
Nov 2008

New turquoise costume

I took a couple pics of my new costume today. I got this one in Asheville at the Ava Fleming workshop. It is gorgeous! A beautiful blue w/ Turquoise beads, rhinestones and crystals. These were all done with the self timer. LOL

Lake Lynn hafla

Kasha had a hafla this past weekend and I did my Isis Wings Performance again. I had a different costume but I did the same choreography. Andy recorded it, but with the bright stage lights it came out a bit yellow. The hafla was fun! There were student performances, sword, Tribal, Tribal Fusion, Gypsy style, and hooping. The musicians were great as always. We are so lucky that all our husbands are so into this as much as we are.

"Highland Storm" youtube clip

**Photo of Khalida, Ahzs, and Amara








**photo by Megan Freeman

HAFLAween 2008

I danced at Haflaween again this year. It was sponsored by Blue Moon Bellydance and The Lost Nomads. The musicians were wonderful and I want to give them a special thanks: Brian B., Andy R., Ken A., John P. and my hubby Andrew. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have been able to keep on dancing! The food was yummy and the decorations were great! I performed with my Isis Wings for the first time.

Here are a couple pics taken by Audra Evans. She is a wonderful photographer, dancer, and friend!!

Surprise Birthday Performance-9/22/08

Last week I did a surprise birthday performance at Cary Cardiology for Dr. Shah. When I arrived they stashed me in one of the examining rooms and covered me with a blanket until he could come in. A couple of nurses and another dr came in to make it look like a consultation. It was so funny. Boy was he surprised! Then we all went out into the lobby/waiting room and I did my performance. What a nice group of doctors, nurses, and staff.

Here are some pics taken by Gary Harris

"Raising the Stars" fundraiser for Matthew Baldwin

I performed this past Sunday at a fundraiser in honor of Matthew. These are friends of mine and this was an important event to me. Matthew is 4 years old and back in August was involved in a lawn mower accident resulting in having to have part of his leg amputated. They are trying to raise money to help pay for all their medical expenses. He is such a sweet little boy. If you can donate anything, they would really appreciate it!

Matthew's Site

**Here are a couple photos taken by Moments Remembered Photography

Performance with Rhythmicity

Andrew and I performed with Rhythmicity at the "Speaking of Women's Health" Conference. We performed during the Opening Ceremony at Raleigh's new Convention Center. There were over 1000 people attending the conference. What fun! Everyone in Rhythmicity is great to work with. Check them out!! Rhythmicity

Bellydance Jam

Septembers Bellydance drum and Dance jam was fun!!! Here are a couple pics that Megan Freeman took! It is fun to get together with friends without the pressure of a "real performance".

Raleigh Drum Circle 6th Anniversary Bash

We had a blast at the Drum Circle Bash this month! Andrew, John, Brian, and Aaron did Middle Eastern Drumming and Jenny and I danced. We did some veil, sword, cane. All was improved. There was also Native American Drumming and storytelling, Sufi whirling, songs, poetry, African drumming and the drum circle. Fire poi, hooping, ect.

Amara's Dance

Drum Circle Performance Clip

Photos

NCBellydance Show

The NCBellydance workshop with Zhaleh Feresteh was GREAT!! She is so sweet and we had so much fun with her. I performed with Colorful Waves and we did "Full of Grace" and I did a solo to Abdel Kader by Khaled. All the performances were amazing and the musicians RAQ!!

Foto Fun!!

I went to the salon today and had my hair done and wanted to try and get some pics while it looked nice. LOL. I had Andy take these, and then we set the timer for the ones of us together.











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Self portraits....

So I tried out the lighting in the new studio today...nothing fancy...I did a bit of editing afterwards, but overall I am impressed with my self portraits....half of them were blurry, but there were about 15 good ones. These were done w/ the 10 second self timer and I had to keep running back and forth to reset it....I spent about 1 1/2 hours today on this today....since it was raining anyway and there was nothing else to do...LOL

My new Teal Pharonics

creative costumes...

Aug 27, 2008





For the last year now, I have wanted to make my own coin costume. I started collecting coins and had friends send me some too but I still dont have enough. So I just bought a huge lot of coins on ebay. I went to Joanne's and bought some fabric. I am using the brown/creme color as the base for a gold/silver coin mix. The red/brown/gold fabric I thought was gorgeous and will make a bra and belt w/ that too....w/ some coins but not as many, will probably add some brown/copper/black beads too.