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just wondering

2007-09-12T03:42:16Z

Are y'all gonna be at the next Richmond tribal jam in October? I was looking forward to seeing you guys again at the last one but you weren't there :(

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UMW Presents - Bhangra Beats! Arab Heat II

2006-11-27T18:15:17Z

Event: Bhangra Beat - Arab Heat II
Date: This Saturday, December 2nd
Location: Great Hall
Time: 9 pm-12am

It’s that time again! Bhangra Beat - Arab Heat is back and better than ever!! The University of Virginia’s award winning Bhangra team “Di Shaan” and a dc area professional belly dancer will be performing. Sultan’s DJ will play the latest hits from the Middle East and South East Asia and there will be free food from Nader’s Cafe and raffle prizes. If you went last year, you’ll know this is the best dance on campus. If you weren’t there, don’t miss out again!

FREE and brought to you by Framar International Living Center, ACDCV and ARH

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I hate to ask....

2006-11-15T17:25:42Z

I have joined the drones on myspace. anyone else part of the hive? Wanna be my friend? (so middle school...sheesh...)

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New Tribe! Janna's International Dance Studio

2006-09-27T17:22:18Z

Stay informed about classes, workshops, and haflas in Newport News, VA and the surrounding area! Past workshop instructors include Zoe, Ansuya, Aziza, and Sonia, and there are many more to come! Also keep up to date on shows featuring Desert Wind Dance Company, Desert Breeze Student Company, and all the dancers from Janna’s studio.

http://tribes.tribe.net/jannasinternationaldance

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Fire Bellydance Workshop - Richmond Va 9/23

2006-08-18T18:12:25Z

Hey everyone! Please come out to this. If you have questions please contact me

thanks,

Erica

SATURDAY, September 23, 2006
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Registration begins August 16, 2006
$25 by September 11, 2006
$30 after September 12, 2006 and at the door
Incubate
3410/3412 West Leigh Street
Richmond, Virginia 23230

Class Description:
Fire Bellydance
Basics will cover fire safety, fuels, safe costuming, candle dance, fire fingers, fire fans and maybe even poi. Bring any toys that you currently have and we will have some tips on making your own. Lee endorses Riz's fire bellydance toys on www.firewhip.com, they're great! We will have practice toys for people to play with. For all you beautiful people that want to see what fire bellydance is all about!

Bring lots of water and snacks, any toys you have or are in the process of making, and your gorgeous self!

Incubate
3410/3412 West Leigh Street
Richmond, Virginia 23230
go to: maps.yahoo.com
Take I 95 South to exit 78 Boulevard.
Turn Right on Boulevard.
Turn Right on Leigh Street.

Incubate is on your right - Street Parking

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Ansuya comes to VA

2006-08-01T18:30:28Z

Come study with a Bellydance Superstar! Ansuya will be teaching two days of workshops in Williamsburg, VA August 29-20. Topics covered will include “the secrets of improvisation” and “tribalret” choreography. After the workshop, join Desert Wind Dance Company and others for a multicultural dance and music gala featuring Ansuya! Call (757) 871-7594 for more information.

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Thanks Vardo

2006-07-19T14:33:45Z

Thanks for dancing & drumming in the show Chelsea, Jonathan, Monica, & Pamela! It was nice seeing you all.
Anthea

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advice from the locals :)

2006-07-18T13:36:59Z

Is anyone going to the Sharon Kihara show on 7/29 or the Rachel Brice show on 8/4? I'll be at both as well as tribal cafe on 7/30. Can anyone recomend a good resteraunt in the DC/Northern Va area?

thanx

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Bewitching...

2006-07-17T19:36:53Z

Vardo rocked! SO glad to catch your performance at Midsummer Magic. :)

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Vardo at Midsummer Magic

2006-07-15T02:51:44Z

(I can't believe nobody has posted about this yet!)

Vardo, your friendly neighborhood Dark Tribal bellydance troupe, will be performing amidst dozens of other dancers of various styles and schools, at Kawakib's Midsummer Magic!

We will be the first on the lineup, so be there early if you want to witness our three new Gothic Tribal pieces, including myself performing improv with a Scimitar.

Midsummer Magic will be taking place at our
Fredericksburg Public Library, at
2:00pm on Sunday the
16th of July (this weekend!) on the
ground floor auditorium.
Admission is free, but seating is limited.

This is a once a year oportunity for you to see a large number of Fredericksburg's local bellydancers, and a few out of town guests, perform in the same location at the same time. Also, this will be, if I'm not mistaken, the first time Midsummer Magic has seen Gothic bellydance!

We all hope to see you there!

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VA Renn. Faire

2006-06-26T18:41:23Z

We will be performing at the Virginia Rennaissance Faire on may 28th, and most likely hanging about the gypsy camp on various other days through to the end of the faire.
Myself and Eddie of the Trance Rhythm Cult will also be performing with Prism on the 20th and 27th.

Hope to see you there!

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Website Changes

2006-06-09T02:45:11Z

I've updated the website with photos from TJ3!
Also, I've changed the About section to include everyone.
http://www.vardo.cjb.net

Feedback and suggestions are ever welcome and encouraged =)

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Grad Party for Megan

2006-06-05T15:23:25Z

Hi all,
I'm having a little get together next Saturday, 6/10. My daughter has graduated high school. Would love for all of you to come out and celebrate. Would be really fun if we drummed and danced for her, but of course, don't feel obligated. I know what a distressing chore that can be (wink)!!
But seriously, please come and have some food and drink and be great company!!
Love to all,
Jen / Alimah

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More Photos!!!!

2006-06-01T14:26:59Z

I can't believe we have so many great pictures!! I will be posting as many I can here, since I don't know how well we'll do of getting hard copies together. I've posted quite a few on my profile...afraid you'll have to sift through some photos dripping with narcissism... :) I'll get some up here as soon as I can!

I had a blast!

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Drumming and Dancing in F'Burg?

2006-05-18T13:49:12Z

Hell0, y'all ... Just wondering what kind of a Middle Eastern / World music and dancing scene you Fredericksburgians may be cultivating up there between Richmond and DC. What kinds of teachers, workshops, classes, troupes, jam sessions, clubs, performance venues, etc, do you have?

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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY - To all Mothers World Wide

2006-05-14T05:22:24Z

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY - To all Mothers World Wide
As your eyes carelessly scan this page millions of women are in various stages of childbirth - in fields, and huts, homes, apartments, hospitals and health centers. A few are alone and scared, but many, even the poor or obscure, are not.

No matter where or how this happens, it is seen as an important event. Every birth is greeted with a unanimous astonishment and acknowledgement of the vast unknown. Despite the problems of overpopulation, India last year celebrated the birth of its billionth baby. The birth is greeted with shouts in every conceivable language and culture of “It’s a miracle!”

A lifetime of intensity is poured into these moments: the wave of undiluted pain comes pounding in, subsides and rolls back with a more forceful crash, forcing out cries that burst out from the depths of a woman. From her cocoon of pain she dimly hears shouts to bear down, hold back, push, as if they are from another world, nothing to do with her. The faces of doctors and midwives in crisp blinding white of glints of steel, masks and gloves are a blur. She barely feels the hands she is clutching for support.

Finally, wrapped up in red life-forming placenta, a tiny body emerges out of her ripped body. With the child, she is handed a lifetime injection of love tinged with the pain that comes from loving too much. Her tears, her sweat pouring from her brow, her flowing and clotted mess of blood is mingled now with relief, laugher, and exhaustion, wonder, and above all hope.

And something changes in the woman - she is no longer a human being with selfish desires. Even after cord is cut, even if she or her baby dies the mystical ties that bind her to the child remains tightly bound, flowing somewhere together into the stream of the universe.

Living Paintings

The mother and child, Madonna and bambino, have been immortalised by great painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli; in Hindu Mythology; in the earliest cave etchings, in world art, literature and history.

But this is no static tableau to be admired at in an art gallery. There are millions of living paintings around us in our modern age. The images no less endearing for their ordinary-ness, perhaps more so, since they go unrecognised unseen. Consider a few:

· A mother sits in her working clothes pumping out breast milk into a container for her newborn and swallows her tears after dropping her child to the baby sitter so she looks smart for the office meeting. Like a juggler she finds ways to somehow hold down a job, find time for her child, rush to the supermarket and drug store, make PTA meetings, and time to bake a birthday cake.

· A mother gets her pay docked, and puts up with angry employers and threats so she can spend the day taking her sick child to the hospital. An inner barometer in her will happily forego self-preservation to safeguard her child’s health.

· A mother sits in a camp where hundreds like her are battling famine, with her baby to her breast, too weak to even brush away flies, but her grip on her baby doesn’t weaken even after she or the baby dies.

· A mother at home spends all day taking care of three children: makes sure they brush their teeth, get their meals on time, wipes bottoms, and tears, fights back anger when they don’t listen or disrespect her, takes them to school and lessons, spends time over their homework, admonishes, hugs, and praises, dispenses advice and medicine, separates fights, and tries to teach them the small curtsies like please and thank you and the big ones, like right from wrong.

In Between

In between there somewhere she forgets who she is, suppresses her longing for her paintbrush or office, travel or ambition. She wonders at night, when it’s quiet or over the kitchen sink, where all the years, and the carefree laughter and the sense of possibility went. Forgets that she has a body and mind that needs care. When her children are grown and sophisticated, they come and go, like butterflies, chastising her for her old fashioned ways. She continues to love them, and suffer pangs of pain when they are in trouble or go away, or buy a motorcycle or are out too late.

· A mother sits by her critically ill child who nearly drowned for trying to save a friend. As she passes her hands over his brow she thanks God for his courage, his good heart, and then goes numb with fear, rocking up and down as if in a trance, “I can’t lose him, I can’t lose him.” She is not alone. A thousand mothers feel for her.

· A mother thinks of the worst thing that could ever happen to her is her child dying before she does. The child dies. But she never lets the child go. She holds on to that child, and by a supreme act of will, keeps him or her alive in her heart, because if she didn’t do that she couldn’t live.

· A mother shops and laughs, travels and gossips with her children who drop in all the time to see her. Somehow she is among the luckiest ones. She has learned to hold on, not with guilt, or recriminations, but with a wacky sense of humour and wit that never grows old. She has become their friend without asking for anything in return because she too has made a full life for herself. She has given them the gift of independence, of huge spaces and possibilities, of going after impossible dreams, because she was brave and wise enough to recognise that although she loves her children she has her own destiny. She may have had to go away for periods of time - may have not always been there to comb their hair or pick them up after a fall, but by allowing herself to fulfil her own potential she has given them the gift of theirs.

There are so many types of mothers. Call it a mystic tie, a finer, purer tie than any ties that bind. Whatever it is, you, our mothers gone, and mothers present, mothers to be, and mothers who’ve lost their children, working mothers, frail mothers, mothers who’ve adopted, and those who’ve had to give up their babies, will go on being what you’ve always been, angels in this bedraggled earth of ours.

The difference is even if it is just for one day, today, Mothers’ Day, we acknowledge you.

Namaste

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Public or private?

2006-05-13T19:59:37Z

So, is Vardo a public tribe here?

If the girls are wearing heeled character shoes, what is Raksha going to wear? Anyone else chime in on the shoes? I think the New Yorker would work best, if you want a heeled shoe - the heel is nice and wide, providing more stability. Plus the description of it having the feel of a jazz shoe appeals to me. The X-strap pump was cute but the heel is a little narrow. We just want to look uncomfortable, not actually be uncomfortable ;-)

Plain T-strap character shoe is fine too. but New Yorker is also the cheapest :-)

I have a pair of T-straps. They're okay, but they do start to pinch after a while (2 hours or so).

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