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you can always watch everything on my profile. It is there too. I have also just uploaded 6 parts of my road movie of Turkey, almost an hour of footage altogether, with soundtrack etc. Still working on it, next thing will be something about the Sufi whirling in Istanbul, probably. Please let me know whether you can watch it there, because my friends in Turkey have the same problem. Youtube has been censored there.

Oh, drum solos can be fun! You just have to learn your shimmies and your hip rolls etc., and it will train and trim your abs and obliques and whatever all these muscles are called into shape, the rest is feeling and a sense for rhythm and understanding of music and then these things become easy. Our teacher is a great one for talking about energy and what doing these bellydance moves does to the energy flow in a woman's body. She teaches total improvisation almost all of the time and I love this. It also makes performing very easy, once I have discovered enough music that inspires me to move to put together a set for stage.
I have been asked a number of times by non-bellydancers, male and female alike:"I am sure, you think of So-and-so when you dance./ Are you thinking of your lover, do you move like this for him when you dance?", and I sometimes say yes and sometimes no, but the truth is, the music moves me and not the other way round.