So, this past weekend...
Sep. 2nd, 2003 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlkeymeBefore my mind erases most of it, here's the recount of this past weekend:
I'm never sure how it happens, but we always seem to running late the morning of a festival...we made it there about 10:50am, but all was well, because most of the other vendors were still setting up, and with the exception of a few costumes that needed to be hanged, and arranging the cards, our space was already set up. Our space was HUGE. I had two tables on one side, both racks perpendicular, then another table finishing up the box. This meant people could come at me from no less than three sides. Time flew from 11am to 1:30pm, and then I needed to go and change (and I somehow managed to make 4 tassels in about 6 minutes and add them to my belt to match my pants...) so Karen (Kevin's wife) volunteered to watch the booth while I go change. Good timing too because even though I got moved back to 2:20 on the schedule, they were running ahead of schedule, so I had just enough time to get into my costume and do make-up. Luckily this was the easy costume (no pinning!) and I had already done the hair, otherwise, who knows. Now, a large dancer's dressing room is always an interesting place, especially when the gossipers are in there.....whew! Crazy...I solicited help on my armbands from I think Nana or one of her troupe people who said...."you look like Rachel Brice...do you know Rachel?" And then quizzed me on my dance origins...heh...yes I know Rachel, no I've never taken classes which Rachel, yes I'm skinny with dark hair, some tattooing, and I happened to be wearing my panel skirt that day, but I would say that's about where the similarities end. I don't dance like Rachel or aspire to. I know her, I like her and I can appreciate her isolation and pretzel skill but that's about it. (sorry, small rant...but it's weird for someone to say that to me when they've never even seen me dance...another thing if they said it afterwards)
I finally made the connection between the Zar headswings and the problem I have hearing in my right ear afterwards (it's like I have a cotton ball in my ear for about 1/2 an hour afterwards, and it doesn't happen immediately after dancing, about 10-15 minutes later). They're connected. Why? No idea. Anyone? Anyone?
Saw lotsa people! Let's see..there was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nightyv, jezebeltw, first time meeting Akasha, got to see Nicole at Paloma's booth, Anisa and her crew, and all the regulars....so many people! I have noticed one thing though that's been apparent....folks I have gotten to the point of easily recognizing and recalling names and such are more likely to re-introduce themselves to me (without even knowing about my haphazard memory quirk), then people who come rushing up and hugging me and I have zero clue. And then there's something I call the troupe phenomena.....I know a troupe leader, and then somehow all of her troupe people know who I am, but I have no idea who they are. It's a bit disconcerting. But I am trying really hard to learn names, connect faces, and stick things in my memory. I don't want people thinking I don't remember them because I'm a snot....it's just so hard at festivals for me to focus when there's so much going on, and I'm trying to watch the table, make sales, etc, etc. I am on the way to knowing nearly all the names of the core crew of Good Vibrations :)
Dancing I saw: Paloma really kicked ass! I'm so proud of her---she did an excellent job, had a great set, and looked lovely. Grace of Good Vibrations blew me away....her dancing immediately transported me onto another visual realm...and she has a lot of the same qualities Qamar has, and I talked to them about on Sunday night----the connection must be Tatseena---but the key is that they have been dancing longer with her than most of the other troupe people, and had more direct attention back in the day. I think I would like to schedule a private or semi-private lesson with Tatseena to see if I could pick up some of those elements. It's like they breathe with their whole bodies, and I want that! And Kajira's troupe, United We Dance, was just fantastic as well----true tribal, right the the core, and basically was the best that real, hard-core, "traditional" tribal can be. I loved it. And the Good Vibrations performance was a real show-stopper-----this too, should be what troupe performance is about!!!
I'm starting to blank now, and I'm sure I'm missing other good stuff....but it was a great festival...a lot of hard work, but a great festival.
I'm never sure how it happens, but we always seem to running late the morning of a festival...we made it there about 10:50am, but all was well, because most of the other vendors were still setting up, and with the exception of a few costumes that needed to be hanged, and arranging the cards, our space was already set up. Our space was HUGE. I had two tables on one side, both racks perpendicular, then another table finishing up the box. This meant people could come at me from no less than three sides. Time flew from 11am to 1:30pm, and then I needed to go and change (and I somehow managed to make 4 tassels in about 6 minutes and add them to my belt to match my pants...) so Karen (Kevin's wife) volunteered to watch the booth while I go change. Good timing too because even though I got moved back to 2:20 on the schedule, they were running ahead of schedule, so I had just enough time to get into my costume and do make-up. Luckily this was the easy costume (no pinning!) and I had already done the hair, otherwise, who knows. Now, a large dancer's dressing room is always an interesting place, especially when the gossipers are in there.....whew! Crazy...I solicited help on my armbands from I think Nana or one of her troupe people who said...."you look like Rachel Brice...do you know Rachel?" And then quizzed me on my dance origins...heh...yes I know Rachel, no I've never taken classes which Rachel, yes I'm skinny with dark hair, some tattooing, and I happened to be wearing my panel skirt that day, but I would say that's about where the similarities end. I don't dance like Rachel or aspire to. I know her, I like her and I can appreciate her isolation and pretzel skill but that's about it. (sorry, small rant...but it's weird for someone to say that to me when they've never even seen me dance...another thing if they said it afterwards)
I finally made the connection between the Zar headswings and the problem I have hearing in my right ear afterwards (it's like I have a cotton ball in my ear for about 1/2 an hour afterwards, and it doesn't happen immediately after dancing, about 10-15 minutes later). They're connected. Why? No idea. Anyone? Anyone?
Saw lotsa people! Let's see..there was
nightyv, jezebeltw, first time meeting Akasha, got to see Nicole at Paloma's booth, Anisa and her crew, and all the regulars....so many people! I have noticed one thing though that's been apparent....folks I have gotten to the point of easily recognizing and recalling names and such are more likely to re-introduce themselves to me (without even knowing about my haphazard memory quirk), then people who come rushing up and hugging me and I have zero clue. And then there's something I call the troupe phenomena.....I know a troupe leader, and then somehow all of her troupe people know who I am, but I have no idea who they are. It's a bit disconcerting. But I am trying really hard to learn names, connect faces, and stick things in my memory. I don't want people thinking I don't remember them because I'm a snot....it's just so hard at festivals for me to focus when there's so much going on, and I'm trying to watch the table, make sales, etc, etc. I am on the way to knowing nearly all the names of the core crew of Good Vibrations :)Dancing I saw: Paloma really kicked ass! I'm so proud of her---she did an excellent job, had a great set, and looked lovely. Grace of Good Vibrations blew me away....her dancing immediately transported me onto another visual realm...and she has a lot of the same qualities Qamar has, and I talked to them about on Sunday night----the connection must be Tatseena---but the key is that they have been dancing longer with her than most of the other troupe people, and had more direct attention back in the day. I think I would like to schedule a private or semi-private lesson with Tatseena to see if I could pick up some of those elements. It's like they breathe with their whole bodies, and I want that! And Kajira's troupe, United We Dance, was just fantastic as well----true tribal, right the the core, and basically was the best that real, hard-core, "traditional" tribal can be. I loved it. And the Good Vibrations performance was a real show-stopper-----this too, should be what troupe performance is about!!!
I'm starting to blank now, and I'm sure I'm missing other good stuff....but it was a great festival...a lot of hard work, but a great festival.
