Carolina Casbah photos

Professional photos by Bonnie Stanley Photography from 'Carolina Casbah' show presented by ACCMED.

RDC 8th Bithday Bash

Raleigh Drum Circle's 8th Annual Birthday Bash. Middle Eastern Drumming by John Price, Andrew Shakinovsky, Mara Cohen, Aaron Kinzer. Bellydance by Amara and Jenny.

The Raleigh Drum Circle celebrates its birthday every September with a special Drum Circle full of performances featuring Middle Eastern Drumming, West African, Bellydancing, Fire spinning, hooping and more.It is always so much fun and I always feel honored to be invited back each year.


Jenny, Aaron, John, Andrew, Amara, Mara


Photo by Annelies Gentile


Debuted my new coin costume.

Caba-ribal-usion weekend fun!

I had a fabulous weekend full of workshops and a great showcase featuring the wonderful Ansuya. We learned 4 choreographies and had 11 hours of instruction. I was exhausted!


Photo by Lisa Loque


Photo by Lisa Loque


Amara and Ansuya

Decisions, decisions....

Alot of costume designing is trial and error. I take ALOT of photos while moving things around and then I go back and look at everything to see what I like the most. I sometimes leave it overnight to see how it looks in the morning. LOL. These pics don't do it justice, but I kind of think these pearls might be too big, but I don't feel like redoing all the chain I made. The pearls are Cream color Swarovski pearls, so they are the good stuff. The pics make them look crappy!

I painstaking drilled ALL the coins myself. (Andy taught me the other night) and then I made all the pearl dangles and connected them to the coins with jump rings. I sewed the ones down on the straps and decided to make more around the cups. Originally it was going to be a drape.

Pearl/Coin chain and coin dangles



pearl/coin chain OR coin dangles




Straps

sewing the belt...

Anna was playing with my camera and snapped these of me sewing the belt...

tapestry belt

Seashell and pearls

In the creative process...