Hmmm, OK, I'll bite:
1. just over a year
2. sexay! and comfortable of course
3. hmmm, that's a hard one, I love what Juli Lively call's kaliedoscope. It's not a move per say, but a transition, where I play upon what the other person is doing. Its very organic and beautiful and creative. ::sigh::
4. ha ha, hmm well that makes it a little hard. Let's see, ok, in a duet she's following me doing let's say slow mayas and snake arms. I come to center with arms still outstretched to sides. I then bring them straight in front of me (as if I am reaching out for the audience) while at the same time bending forward from the waist. This is where you can flirt with the audience a bit. meanwhile, Julie know's I always do that when I'm about to transition, so she does a similar move behind me where she reaches out with one arm to her right and bend at waist. Ok, making this short we basically play off each other to transition leaders and it helps to make it look smooth and not like "OK, we're changing places now!"
5. Hmmm, I seem to be having troubles with spins. My feet feel like they're stuck to the floor. Ewww
6. Crazy hand! But I do look at the floor too much. Shy....
7. Something weird? I always have to have a napkin around my drinks, esp. in clubs. Obsessive about it.
8. Bellydance CD? I don't think I really listen to bellydance music, heh heh. But that would have to be the Strange Flesh compilation. Non BD? Why Combichrist of course! ;-)
9. Last workshop? I think that was Frederique's Charm Arm workshop. Looking forward to taking Rachel Brice's workshop at Tribal Cafe this August.
10. What to ask??? LOL, won't you come dance with me?????? ;-)

Ah… Rachel Brice… Frickin jealous!!
Okay, so here’s mine:

1. I’ve been dancing for a year and a half.
2. I like them to make me feel sexy and invincible.
3. Undulations down to up
4. ….I’m tired!
5. Doing something while going down to the floor. I see dancers doing mayas and kneeling slowly down and I feel like like a dirty old lady, “Damn! Check out those knees!!”
6. It’s something that I call Tribal-rex or the “T-rex”. You know how rachel brice does her tribal arms all nice and pretty down by her sides, elbows in like a 90 degree angle? Well, when I’m nervous the upper arm stays the same, but my forearms migrate to my chest, ending up in the T-rex position. T-rex tribal with pretty hands. (Put your arms down, I know you’re doing it!)
7. The thing about weird things is that you think it’s perfectly normal and its everyone else tat thinks its weird. Hmm… when I get nervous, like before a test or something, I get into this mode that is a mixture between bellydance mode and musical theater mode. Yeah, five minutes before the last organic chemistry test I broke out into Cabaret with jazz hands and a full shimmy.
8. Fave cd? There are lots I love, but I only have to skip one song in the BDSS 3 (I can’t stand the kissing song. *shudders*. I totally want to get strange Flesh, though!! Fave non-bd CD? NIN Zero is my newest acquisition and it hasn’t left my CD player since we bought it. There are tons. It depends on my listening mood or my dancing mood.
9. Last workshop was tribal fest in Kansas City with ARIELLAH, Layla bint Ali, and the wonderful Elizabeth Osteen and Chris chambers from tribe Marrakech. Whose do I wanna go to? RB’s, of course!
10. Why is it that when you want to post something, tribe doesn’t work?

1. (how long i've been dancing) about 4 years, i think...
2. (my bdance clothes have to be...) comfortable! i do cabaret 50% of the time and well... comfortable cabaret costumes are hard to come by!
3. (fav. move) 3/4 glute shimmies layered over a slow regular shimmy
4. (combo) if i could think of a combo that fast, i would gladly share it!
5. (least fav. move) choochoo shimmies because my calf muscles are weak!
6. (my issues) i have an issue finishing moves, as my brain is always trying to jump ahead to the next section of music
7. (why i'm weird) i work as a software developer and i listen to crazy dark music
8. fav bdance-CD: aziza raqs (i love the classics, and these are such good arrangments) non-bdance-CD: Theatre of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear (such great cheese!!!!)
9. i went to a morocco workshop yesterday! must...have...more...workshops....

1. How long have you been dancing?

as long as i can remember... oooh, you mean belly dancing... i taught myself how to do hip isolations in high school, but then didn't have the time/money/access to study it formally until about 8 yrs ago while living in tucson. i've been on and off with it ever since. (it seems like every time i find a teacher i really like one of us moves)

recently i've been much more focused on firedance

2. What do you like your bd clothes make you feel like when you dance in them?

comfy and confident

3. What’s your one best/favorite move that you love to do?

so in an attempt to answer this i found a pretty cool resource - The Belly Dance Movements Thesaurus www.middleeasterndance.homestead.com/BDThesaurus.html

i don't know - i pretty much love all hip work, and also hand articulation

4. Would you mind sharing a 4-8 count mini-combo with that move with us?

choreography is one of the things i need to get more versed at.

5. What’s your worst/most hated move?

no hated moves, just those i am either particularly challenged by and those i have yet to learn thoroughly.

challenged by belly rolls
need to learn more about floorwork and props (veils, zills, scimtars, etc)

6. Is there a quirky thing that you battle against (e.g. chicken arms, look at floor, drool, etc..) when you dance?

i'd like to think it happens less so when i've actually performed (because there's an actual audience to play to), but while rehearsing, i make the goofiest 'concentration' faces

7. Share something weird about you.

8. What’s your fave bellydance cd?

i find certain dead can dance tracks utterly amazing

What's your fave non-bd cd?

how could i possibly pick just one! my music tastes are all over the place. but just for this exercise i will narrow it down by "best overall composition as a complete album" - in which case In An Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel takes the cake.

9. What was the last workshop you attended and/or whose workshop would you love to take?

Persian Dance with Laurel Victorian Grey

10. What do you want to ask other tribe members or myself?

hmmm... how, if at all, has belly dance changed your view of yourself and/or the world and/or the divine?

Alright! In an attempt to revive this post, here’s my updated one.

1. Some time. :P Not tellin ya.
2. I like for my BD clothes to make me feel invincible and sexy. I like them to add to my performance both visually and energetically. I want to be able to draw energy from what I’m wearing and be able to use it while performing.
3. Any undulation with a lock at the end. Like a belly roll with hip locks, or an arm undulation to the audience, with my eyes locking on someone…
4. Okay, this is totally taken from Ariellah, but I’m ~totally~ diggin’ it right now. You start in awesome BD position. 1-You scoop your right shoulder over and down to the left as you lean a little bit. 2- Bring your shoulder back up, completing the scoop, and ending up at 45 deg angle to left. 3-4 – undulate up to down. 5-6 one or two hip circles or omis. 7-8 – undulate down to up. Repeat to right side.
5. Snake arms. I love ‘em. They look awesome. But … I’m working on increasing my arm strength…they definitely could be better.
6. I just battle against unpreparedness. I’m a procrastinator, so I rarely have my choreography ready, If done at all. I’m working hard on fixing that, though.
7. I eat everything with lemon juice and hot sauce. Potato chips, cucumbers, salad (lemon juice and salt, maybe chili powder), soups, stir frys (they have to have lemon juice and at least some jalapenos)… all sorts of things…
8. Fave bd cd… right now I’ve been listening to beats antique, strange flesh, knossos, and maduro a lot lately. BDSS3 is always great (still) for my cabaret drils n dancing.
Fave non bd cd? Assemblage 23 and Collide lately, definitely. And Modulate. I want to choreograph the “Skullfuck you!” song. I’d only be able to perform it at the goth club here, but it’s awesome, lol.
9. ARIELLAH!!! We had her over for a workshop on Oct 13th and 14th. Ohh…the gothy goodness…
I’m also looking forward to Moria in Kirksville on Feb 9th (I think?) It’s gonna be KILLER!
10. “Tell me your secrets , Frida…”…I mean, “…ladies…”

And -$5 off an order if you can tell me:
a. What movie the quote is from
b. WHERE and WHAT is happening in the movie when the quote is said.
PM me, though. Wouldn’t want to ruin the fun for everyone ;)

~Daniela/Aracenia

P.S.
I wanna hear from the new members!!