PooF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is I the Genie from Miami,
So I figured that a strand should be started introducing ourselves, the classes were taking and if you are performing so that we can all get to know one another. This is such a fun event. I have been going to spirit as a spectator for seven years when it was held in a high school Auditorium to now at a large theater. Then about 4 years ago I decided I’d try to see if I like to dance with the intent to try to impress my wife and took one of my first workshops here. We now provide a service to video tape local performers. You can go to cintronart.com to see what we do and see samples of our DVD’s and art. My wife Adeela has been dancing for more than 8 years. If you see us don’t be afraid to say HI! to either of us.
I’ll be in Thursday’s
Romka and Lila Haddad
Friday
Ariellah, Reetu Jain, Sera
Saturday
Zoe, Victor Olivio
Sun
Karim Nagi Mr Turbo Tabla
Not performing at Spirit this year but can be seen groving out with the first available drummers.
Be seeing you all,
Lots of Love
Bill and Adeela the Jin from Miami
So I figured that a strand should be started introducing ourselves, the classes were taking and if you are performing so that we can all get to know one another. This is such a fun event. I have been going to spirit as a spectator for seven years when it was held in a high school Auditorium to now at a large theater. Then about 4 years ago I decided I’d try to see if I like to dance with the intent to try to impress my wife and took one of my first workshops here. We now provide a service to video tape local performers. You can go to cintronart.com to see what we do and see samples of our DVD’s and art. My wife Adeela has been dancing for more than 8 years. If you see us don’t be afraid to say HI! to either of us.
I’ll be in Thursday’s
Romka and Lila Haddad
Friday
Ariellah, Reetu Jain, Sera
Saturday
Zoe, Victor Olivio
Sun
Karim Nagi Mr Turbo Tabla
Not performing at Spirit this year but can be seen groving out with the first available drummers.
Be seeing you all,
Lots of Love
Bill and Adeela the Jin from Miami
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Sheba the Bellyrina!
Sat, April 19, 2008 - 9:36 PMI LOVE your dvds! Looking forward to getting "An Evening of Tribal" when they become available=o)
I started Cabaret bellydancing in 1990 - Got into dancing professionally with A Maji in 1996 - left her troupe and went on my own for a couple of years. I quit dancing for almost 8yrs(1999-2007) and started back in the summer of 2007. Feels GREAT to be dancing again!!=oD I currently am taking classes from Lacey at Florida Tribal who is an AWESOME dancer and instructor!!
My Spirit workshop schedule:
Thursday: Floorwork and Tribal Sword (did I mention I LOVE dancing with my swords?;o))
Friday: Ariellah and Zoe
Saturday: Zoe, Moria, & Urban Tribal
I'm not in the shows (maybe next year;o) and couldn't afford to go them this year, but I will DEFINITELY be at the Friday night pool party. Where is the party going to be on Thursday night?=oP
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 7:42 AMI'm taking:
Thurs:
Binti (if we get into town in time)
Fri:
Ariellah
Zoe
Reetu Jain
Sat:
Zoe
Moria
Urban Tribal
Sun:
Arishlam
Milla & Echan
Alchemy will be dancing in Friday night's show also.
This will be my fifth Spirit. I started dancing 7 years ago. I am now an instructor and troupe co-director of Alchemy. We are located in Augusta, GA and can be seen in the Atlanta, Athens, Columbia, Charlotte area regularly. This is Alchemy's second time performing at Spirit, though other than Jeannie (my troupe co-director and partner in crime) and I its a new set of girls dancing for the first time at Spirit. Jeannie and I will also be helping out intermittently at Geishamoth's booth throughout the weekend. We're staying at the Hampton. Stop us and say hi if you see us. We love to gab with new people and old Spirit buddies alike :)
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:06 AMHello all! I'm Tammy from Orlando. I've been dancing for about 3 1/2 years (9 months of that I was pregnant). I started learning cabaret and then about 2 years ago switched to tribal. I am part of a group called Blue Caravan (performing primarily ATS) but we will not be performing at Spirit. This is my second year at Spirit, and like last year, I drag my husband and daughter along with me. Last year after seeing Raquy and the cavemen perform, my husband ran out and bought a drum. This year he will be taking Karim's workshop. So it's exciting to see him getting involved. We are staying at the Hampton, so we may just stop by and check out the Friday night pool party :-)
I will be going to both shows with my daughter (she behaves at shows, so she will not be the screaming child... don't worry)
Classes
Thur
Romka
Fri
Ariellah
Zoe
Sera
Sat
Bella Fuegas (hubby will be with Karim)
Zoe
Urban Tribal
Sun
Karim
Bodhicitta
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:07 AMHere's mine for the weekend:
THURS -
Romka
FRI
Ariellah –
Sera
SAT
Moria
Urban Tribal
SUN
None (so far)
And I'll also be volunteering at the Geisha Moth booth off and on both Fri and Sat.
This is only my second time at SotT, but I so loved it last year, that I'll be coming back for years to come. I'm going to be there with some of my Charleston, SC ladies, but no performing for us this year. We're also staying at the Hampton Inn, so if I don't see you at the War Memorial, you'll probably find me by the pool!
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:26 AMHey there! I'm enjoying the hell out of intermediate tribal with Lacey of Florida Tribal Dance.
I come from a childhood background of zero dance, scrambling to catch up... I started with Bhrigha's cabaret classes back in the day, slid over to the tribal realm with them, and enjoyed a short but exciting succession of teachers at the basic level prior to hooking up with FTD and making it past the rudiments. I'm of a mind to fling swords and fire when the time is right.
I'm taking the sword and zill classes at Spirit, and relaxing, and enjoying the shows, and hanging poolside and oceanside.
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 5:37 PMHi all;
I'm Matt's encouraging counterpart and drummer. Lots of dance and performance experience in my past including exhibition and competitive clogging, marching band, concert band, jazz band and symphony, have been hanging with dancers and drummers for about 15 years and only recently started teaching the beginning beginners what I know and have developed as a nothing is wrong as long as you try it philosophy of getting you used to that first drum and helping you determine what rhythms appeal to you as you move along your drumming path.
My first Spirit I'm looking forward to taking all the stretching and music classes and hanging with other amazing musicians and dancers. Really looking forward to a time when there is a vocabulary of rhythms for drummers that coincides with the Tribal dancers' family of moves and various drummers can employ this vocabulary with a few agreed upon transitions that will mean any live drummer with basic knowledge would be able to drum for tribal dancers. A synergy if you will where drummers are cued by the lead dancer or dancers.
Read Matt's bio for the teaching repertoire and suffice it to say that I've taken beginning tribal dance 5 times and hoping it sticks this time. Can't wait to perform with a group someday, but setting goals and taking baby steps. Have had to overcome a lot between teachers, community, health and discipline. It is all starting to come together.
See everybody there, looking forward to drumming in the dawn on the beach.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 3:34 AM"Really looking forward to a time when there is a vocabulary of rhythms for drummers that coincides with the Tribal dancers' family of moves and various drummers can employ this vocabulary with a few agreed upon transitions that will mean any live drummer with basic knowledge would be able to drum for tribal dancers. A synergy if you will where drummers are cued by the lead dancer or dancers. "
This is a really interesting concept. Have you been working on it? I work with a lot of visual cues and dancer responses when I do trance music, even though I'm looking for different things than what you would find in a tribal dancers vocabulary of movement... the process is exactly the same. Maybe we should chat at Spirit a bit?
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 12:40 PMBeen working with Jesse Rogers and Lisa Myers on it with the basis of Drumming for Dancers, Dancing for Drummers class that they taught. From that, with their teaching materials, we've taken it one step further into an introductory course for those that have never drummed before into a drills class of popular rhythms that incorporates counting, reading basic drum rhythms in 4/5/7/8s and covers posture and basic hand technique. This class takes a newbee drummer, someone who bought the drum and thinks it looks cool and wants to play like the others s/he has heard but also has a life that is not professional that pays for the drum, dance and shows.
It is a work in progress, with hopes of building the basic vocabulary of rhythms that then works with the dancers. Also uses dancers once the basic vocabulary is learned to show how the drumming can be cued by the dancers. This requires that the drummers playing have a basic knowledge and can switch back and forth between popular beats.
Loud Zoo dancers call out the rhythms they want to the drummers right before they change the movements, that's another way to do it. Then the dancers will know from memory of the rhythms if it will be fast or slow, but the transitions there are a little rough. They are working on it.
Trying to poll drummers and dancers and work with the visual cues I know it can be done, but just need the right mix. Learning what is a 2/4/8 or 16 group of moves from a dancer's perspective will help and teaching the drummers to count like dancers will help as well.
It's coming along. Thanks for asking, yes we can chat more about it at Spirit. Looking forward to it.
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 11:02 AMHi! My name is Lola, and I'm a show girl, with yellow feathers in my hair and a dress cut down to...
Oh, wait, that's not me!
My name is Jeannie, and I'm co-director of Alchemy. As Mari, the Thelma to my Louise, said, we are performing at Spirit for the second time this year, so look for us on Friday night. Along with the three other awesome chicks that make up alchemy, I think our troupe will have a person in just about every single class this year! We'll be arriving at The Hampton on Thursday afternoon, so look for us at breakfast, in the workout room, and poolside, as well as at GM's booth and in the classes. Speaking of classes, here's where I'll be:
Friday:
Ariellah
Zoe
Reetu Jain
Saturday:
Urban Tribal
Sunday:
Arishlam
E Chan and Milla
I'm excited to be going back to Spirit. I missed last year due to just having my second son, with whom I was pregnant at my first Spirit! It will be good to see Spirit without the fog of early pregnancy.
BB and see you all SOOOON!!!
~Jeannie
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 8:42 PMSouth florida drummer here who would LOVE to play for dancers at Spirit between classes, poolside, whatever. I'm taking Karim's Saturday morning class and attending the show and the killer after party on Saturday night. If you want to dance to live drummer's I can get a couple of drummer's pretty quickly because i live down here. Just let me know. -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 12:44 PMinclude me in that live drumming wherever you need it. I'm game. Could give you my cell when we meet and be on tap at a moment's notice. Code name: Doris, I'm on. Oh, sorry bad movie reference, but seriously I'll be available throught the weekend to jam or drill.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 6:50 PMFt. Lauderdale beach is a very wide beach down to the waters edge south of Sunrise towards Los Olas. We used to have a huge ongoing full moon drum circle there, but it got too rowdy pulling in drunk teenagers and drugs, etc so the police squashed it. But a single drummer or two down close to the waters edge is not going to bother anybody. It was the crowd (300 people) half drunk and rowdy that freaked the police, not the drumming per se. -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 8:56 PM...would be SWEEET!!=oD
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 3:51 AMHi Spiritgoers,
I am the Spoon. Easily identifiable in a crowd due to me wearing all white 24/7 and generally a pair of sunglasses too. (Helps with the glare... future's so bright and all. :-P ) I'm a trance dancer/musician and Orientale dancer since 1994. I move pretty well... too well for a comedian. I definately have the Napoleon Dynamite thing going. Though I may seem cheeky it's only to conceal a disturbing intellect and a lack of regard for the conventions of conversational comfort. (I'll happily talk for hours about politics, religion, history and anything else that I find interesting.) This is my first time at Spirit of the Tribes and I've promised to be on my best behaviour, shenanigans to the minimum. I won't be performing in the shows but I'm sure I'll find some way to get my dance fix this weekend. The Shovelglove and I will be shacking up at the Hampton Inn.
I don't remember what workshops I'm doing but I'm sure I'll se you happy people around the event at some point.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 5:53 AMSpoon's going to be in the house! Woot woot!
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 4:05 AMI'm Melanie, and this is my first year at SOT. I'm taking:
Thurs: Ariellah, Zoe, Reetu
Sat: Zoe, Moriah
I've been dancing since high school, mostly cabaret, and I just started taking tribal fusion classes in the last few months. I'm in a professional cabaret troupe called Serpentina.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 5:47 AMMornin' folks. Names Ally, I go by the dance name of Luma. I've been dancing for two years ans still consider myself a total beginner. I live in Florida full time on the opposite coast in a little town called Fort Myers.
I will be taking:
Pretty much everything except the early Thursday and late Sunday. I think I have 2 to four classes a day. Whew! I'm gonna be a busy little bee :D
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 6:53 AMOh you're a brave little mortal. I max out at 6 hours of classes per day, that's all I can handle and still be functional as a party person later. Have to balance the fun and educational aspects of the weekend. ;-) I'll raise a glass for you're poor little broken body though! Whooo! Brave woman!
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 7:54 AMHi there! I'm DeLacey and this will be my second SOTT
I'll be dancing with my troupe, Gypsy Hands on Friday night
and with Beats Antique on Saturday
I'm taking both Zoes, Moria, Urban Tribal, ArishLam and Reetu Jain.
maybe more.....
I'll also be vending with Gypsy Hands
I will be selling awesome feather earrings, pretty hair bobs and amber oil
plus some random things like studded head bands and head band bases.
I can't wait...are we there yet?
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 10:20 AMKaleena here. This is my second Spirit Of The Tribes and I can't hardly wait to get to Lauderdale to let the fun begin. The classes, the performances, the SHOPPING. It will be glorious, simply glorious.
I'm taking:
Thurs: Yumi and Masami, Leila Haddad
Fri: Ariellah, Zoe, Sera
Sat: Zoe, Moria, Urban Tribal, Victor Olivo
Sun: Leila Haddad
And I'm still considering one or two more. I've been dancing for a year and a half and look forward to many many more.
Likes include: Bawdy humor, Booze, Sparkly Thangs, Singing Loudly In The Car When I'm Alone, Tattoos, Plants, Oreos (only the original though), Asian Food, Bubble Wrap, Road Trips, Sad Music, Talking To The Moon, Films With Bullets And Quips.
Dislikes include: Velvet, Mexican Food, No Moneys, "Diet" Anything, People Taking My Picture, Cover Bands, Crappy Horoscopes and Anything That Will Prevent Me From Engaging In Activities On The "Likes Include:" List.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 10:33 AMI saw the words "Spirit Tropical" on Maja's website and that was all it took. Two of my three loves are bellydance and anything tropical. This is an ideal vacation for me!
Classes:
Fri: Ariellah, Zoe, Sera
Sat: Moria, Urban Tribal
(Kaleena will be in all of my classes. Kaleena, why are you stalking me?!?! )
Staying at the Hampton.......if I am not at the War Memorial you will probably find me at the beach, soaking up all of the sunshine. I plan to spend my evenings with a cool drink in my hand, meeting all of you wonderful folks.
Details about me are in my profile, so I won't repeat them all here.....can't wait to see everyone and to spend some time with my toes in sand & drink in hand! -
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 12:31 PM"(Kaleena will be in all of my classes. Kaleena, why are you stalking me?!?! )"
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 4:45 PMThis is my first Spirit of the Tribes. Also, my first time going to Fort Lauderdale.
I've been taking bely dance classes for about 4.5 years - any style I can get my hips into - cabaret, tribal improv, tribal fusion, Gothic ...
I'm traveling with my best belly friend, *Samantha*. We're psyched to be going.
I'm taking:
Romka's sword workshop
Yumi & Masai
both of Zoe's workshops
Moria Chappel's workshop
Karim's zill workshop
I'm looking forward to the shows, shopping, and the parties!
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 6:20 PMHiya everyone!
Misha here from sunny Sarasota - across the state and upwards from 'Lauderdale. This will be the 4th time I've been at Spirit and I'm really looking forward to it! My background is in Raks Sharki, American Oriental, and because I apparently have a split personality (or am a masochist?), ATS, ITS and tribal fusion. I have the honor of teaching and performing all those styles, plus a bit of folkloric and Turkish when the mood takes me. heh.
I'm takin'
Fri: Ariellah, Zoe, Sera
Sat: Hoops, Zoe, Moria, Urban Tribal
(maybe a few on Thurs if we can make it in time!)
you'll probably find me out curled up under a tree when not dancing (i'm a nature girl) with my hubby, who's coming for drumming goodness. (i'm kinda shy so sometimes you have to poke at me...)
I'm also helping out the lovely ms. Geisha Moth in the booth and with lugging stuffs around - we will be bringing loads of pantsy goodness down with me to you lovely folks. (I opened the box yesterday - she is bringing some GOOD stuffs to us!!!)
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:33 AMOkay, my turn. I'm Donna. I live in Hollywood (Florida, that is). It's about 15 minutes south of Ft. Lauderdale. The Genie and I go way back (we danced together last year at Spirit). I've been dancing with Lotus Dance Studio (Pembroke Pines) for almost three years and formed a troupe last year with my girls, Jessica and Leigh, which we lovingly call Avalon. My style is (of course) Tribal, Tribal Fusion and my newest and greatest obsession, Gothic. This is my 3rd time attending Spirit (did my VERY first workshop there). I'll be taking...Thursday-Yumi and Masami Friday-Ariellah, Zoe Saturday-Urban Tribal Can't wait to see all of you beautiful people and like I said before, if you need a ride... -
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 12:56 PMLook forward to the Genie in some of the classes first timer here at SOT:
Leila Haddad Algerian dances
Zoe
Sera
Salsa
Zoe
Leila Haddad Tunisian dances
Karim Nagi
Milla & E Chan
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Tue, April 22, 2008 - 7:10 PMHi Reid! I'll see you in Zoe's first class and I'm sure we'll run into each other many times over the four days. Contact me if you want my number in case you need anything.
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Wed, April 23, 2008 - 5:39 AMHey Genie, I'm Donna from Augusta Georgia and I dance with Alchemy. I am so excited this year and ready to hang out with everyone. my classes this year are:
Romka-swordworkshop
Ariellah-dark fusion
Zoe-spooky andmischievous pop and locks
Bella Fuegas- Hoop BD fusion
Moria-Tribalicious
Arishlam-Bomba Afro belly dance
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 7:44 AMHello, my name is Shara and I'm vacationing in West Palm Beach and just found out that Spirit is going on this weekend! I am taking Binti's class which I am soooo excited about!!! I am a classically trained dancer who is now bellydancing professionally, and I share her vision for fusion.
I'm also taking all the Sunday classes, back to back. Got to get in my fix before I return home.
Cheers,
Shara
www.sambali.com
myspace.com/wheatgrassbellydancer
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Thu, April 24, 2008 - 7:47 AMHello everyone. My name's Cely and live in Miami. This will be my first time going to SOT! I'm really excited and am so glad that Miami/South Florida has such a great tribal community. So, due to the stress of finals, I'll only be taking Zoe's Saturdays workshop and will attend Friday's show. I can't wait to meet you all and look forward to this weekends' festivities :D
