I had my first solo paid gig this weekend. This rural high school in a tiny, tiny town hired me to dance for their prom. The theme was "Arabian Nights."
I was a little nervous, because they had told me the school board was worried about showing too much cleavage, so I wore a choli, instead of my new bedleh (I think I could have gotten away with the bedleh). There were less than 200 kids in the school and they did a great job on decorating. They painted all of the students' names in English and in Arabic, underneath it. I was impressed as this would have taken a significant amount of research and I was also surprised given the political situation.
They seemed to really love the performance and I was baffled at the fact that I finally attended a prom...as a bellydancer.
I was a little nervous, because they had told me the school board was worried about showing too much cleavage, so I wore a choli, instead of my new bedleh (I think I could have gotten away with the bedleh). There were less than 200 kids in the school and they did a great job on decorating. They painted all of the students' names in English and in Arabic, underneath it. I was impressed as this would have taken a significant amount of research and I was also surprised given the political situation.
They seemed to really love the performance and I was baffled at the fact that I finally attended a prom...as a bellydancer.
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Mon, May 1, 2006 - 12:04 PMYay for open minded tiny rural towns! -
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Mon, May 1, 2006 - 3:32 PMNot only does that sound wonderful, it sounds like you did a WONDERFUL job!
Mabruk!
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Tue, May 2, 2006 - 6:15 AMThanks! Solo dancing has never been my strong point. I think it helped that they were so enthusiastic.
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Thu, May 4, 2006 - 9:13 PMDo you have any pictures?
That's really cool..........when I saw the subject line, I thought "huh"? What a great idea! -
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Fri, May 5, 2006 - 5:54 AMI didn't take any. I know the kids did, so maybe I'll be in their yearbook! -
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Thu, May 25, 2006 - 9:51 AMI work at a year book compnay.....if you knowhe name of the school I might be able to see if their book is printed here....and gank some photos for you if we've got any.....(scheming)
~M
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Mon, October 16, 2006 - 10:12 PMWow, baffled, that is the word I would use. Glad they LIKED your performance,
here in LA LA land, the last few HS gigs were disasters!
I REALLY try to perform to my audience, props, music to keep them interested, (yes, we still use that ancient technology, CD's, we had to explain to them when we got there!) but the HS was impossible, they just looked at the three of us like we were aliens!
We were to dance with some of the staff there, to get them going, THAT they liked! (whew!)
Two of my friends also danced at a HS event (was it the prom? maybe) they did a few minutes, were paid and left. . . . . . : (
HS gigs in CA, "Just say no!"
