As a studio, we like to get together and mingle.
We don't have a set day or event we do, just randomly throughout the year, we will congregate.
Sometimes with our other half's, sometimes without.
Last time we had a pot luck supper and hubbies and kids all come together and we shared a meal.
It's always a great deal of fun seeing everyone outside of a class situation. Plus its nice to include and meet the family of our dancers and let the husbands chat and compare notes, size up the ladies their wife's are making friends with and feel included in our little community.
We also find it makes the senior dancers feel and look less intimidating.
This time around, we are doing a girls only movie and games night, with a bring and share pasta. We have found a copy of Hocus Pocus and are still hunting out First Wives Club (Bette Midler)...
Scrupples is on the list of games we plan to play, for those who don't know how it works. It's a bunch of scenario's and your team mates must guess how you would react in the situation. It makes for much laughing and loads of fun.
Melanie Wallis & Jessica Perelson own Zahra's Oriental Dance School and Zahra's Fun Events. We are stay at home moms with a love for this art form and the community that surrounds it.
Monday, 31 October 2016
Monday, 24 October 2016
So I've been super bad at keeping this blog updated....
That research I did on Morocco is still waiting for final proof and I have not even started looking at Algeria and Tunisia.
I would love to be able to say, I have been super busy with preparations for Purple Belly Bus (which happened this past weekend) and Theatrical Oriental Dance Festival (which happened two weeks ago). Mostly I've just been super lazy (that is when I'm not working in the studio) to do any form of admin, or writing.
I am having withdrawal symptoms, I loved dancing 6 to 8hours a day. It was gruelling and fun and it stretched my dance ability and shaped it. I'm so excited to see where all this new "stuff" is going to take me.
I sort of feel like Dorothy, starting off in my red shoes on the yellow brick road...
Only it's not a wizard I'm looking forward to but my own potential, my own growth.
Yes, I've probably said it a thousand times, but it's the one aspect of the dance that I love so much. There is always something more to learn, the dance form itself is always growing changing and adapting.
Photo is by Jessica Perelson, we were taking a break between sessions and I went off to reflect and eat and find some quiet sunshine...
That research I did on Morocco is still waiting for final proof and I have not even started looking at Algeria and Tunisia.
I would love to be able to say, I have been super busy with preparations for Purple Belly Bus (which happened this past weekend) and Theatrical Oriental Dance Festival (which happened two weeks ago). Mostly I've just been super lazy (that is when I'm not working in the studio) to do any form of admin, or writing.
I am having withdrawal symptoms, I loved dancing 6 to 8hours a day. It was gruelling and fun and it stretched my dance ability and shaped it. I'm so excited to see where all this new "stuff" is going to take me.
I sort of feel like Dorothy, starting off in my red shoes on the yellow brick road...
Only it's not a wizard I'm looking forward to but my own potential, my own growth.
Yes, I've probably said it a thousand times, but it's the one aspect of the dance that I love so much. There is always something more to learn, the dance form itself is always growing changing and adapting.
Photo is by Jessica Perelson, we were taking a break between sessions and I went off to reflect and eat and find some quiet sunshine...
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