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hi everyone, i don't see many guys in this tribe, so i hope i'm not out of line by joining, but i would really like to learn how to belly dance, or is it a woman only thing. i'm 60 and in good shape considering, i love to dance and if there is a male version of belly dance i want to do it. there is not any place locally that i know of that teaches this kind of dancing. i live in a small west texas town just north of odessa. but go to radical faerie gatherings and plan to start going to burning man in austin. i think i would like to combine belly dance and poi, is this possible? help please, thanks, bone
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Re: new to the tribe
Wed, December 29, 2004 - 9:19 PMyou have come to the right place, and welcome!
I'll let the individual teachers speak for themselves. When you combine poi and BD, you'll teach the rest of us, right? -
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Re: new to the tribe
Thu, December 30, 2004 - 11:50 PMhi stacie, at this point i can't do either, but it would be pretty, huh? "LMAO" -
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Re: new to the tribe
Thu, December 30, 2004 - 11:54 PMoH god i just got a visual of yards and yards of flaming silk. maybe i should rethink the poi thing.
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Re: new to the tribe
Thu, December 30, 2004 - 12:00 AMCheck out the discussion here:
sanfrancisco.tribe.net/thread...b0691fc
(Gotta love Tribe's new search tools...)
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Re: new to the tribe
Thu, December 30, 2004 - 7:44 AMYou won't be going to *Burning man in Austin*--Burning Man isn't a franchise (yet :) Sorry, a pet peeve of mine. You'll be thinking of Flipside, a regional, burning man event.
www.burningflipside.com
I have a lot of friends that have gone and have a blast. better kep your eye opn, tix go on sale soon.
If you go, talk to people there about local classes and whatnot. usually someone knows someone that can send you in the direction you're looking for.
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Re: new to the tribe
Fri, December 31, 2004 - 12:02 AMoops, that's good to know. do you know if flipside had a radical faerie camp? thanks ivy, bone -
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Re: new to the tribe
Fri, December 31, 2004 - 12:39 PMI don't know. Your best bet would be to check the website (burningflipside.com) and if there's no info there, email the Flipside people. Good luck!
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Re: new to the tribe
Tue, January 4, 2005 - 5:44 PMYay Flipside! Yay regional burning events (I participate in Playa del Fuego, in Delaware, and have never made Flipside because *sob* they overlap, but one day . . . )
Remember, if there isn't a camp you can always start one! Our rag-tag group of friends that camped together is slowly turning into a theme camp with a Baltimore flavour: Camp Hon. Grab some like minded friends and go for it!
Good luck with your dancing - sounds like you've got lots of info to work with.
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Re: new to the tribe
Thu, December 30, 2004 - 8:00 AMWe have several male b-dancers in Texas. Drakon in Austin teaches as well. -
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Re: new to the tribe
Fri, December 31, 2004 - 12:07 AMcool, thats good news, austin is a little over four hours away but maybe i could work someting out during vacation time. thanks ahmed
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Re: new to the tribe
Fri, December 31, 2004 - 4:22 PMPoi and belly dance is quite a popular fusion right now. Stick around and you will get to meet plenty of dancers (men and women) who enjoy these arts in tandem.
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Re: new to the tribe
Sun, January 2, 2005 - 2:16 PMhi sharon, thanks for the information and welcome. i wish i lived close to a big city that had a troupe of dancers. i'm really excited to learn the art of poi and dancing.
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Re: new to the tribe
Sun, January 2, 2005 - 12:05 PMHi there! For a very impressive male bellydancer, check out Hahbi 'Ru: www.hahbiru.com/
I spin poi and bellydance, and haven't done them together much... They influence each other to be sure, and I will sometimes do both at a performance, but doing them simultaneously would prove difficult. Just because they both require concentration, and swinging my hips while doing a complicated poi pattern is tricky... maybe I just need more practice. :) I have seen a girl shimmy while doing simple poi moves and it was nice.
As far as having a poi spinner and a bellydancer performing at the same time, it could be very cool. To be honest, I think the fact that someone is swinging fire tends to overpower the fact that someone is bellydancing, but I would be very interested in seeing a show with both. Fire fans and fire fingers go perfectly with bellydancing, for sure. There definitely is a growing scene of folks who are interested in bellydancing and fire.
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Re: new to the tribe
Sun, January 2, 2005 - 2:50 PMnew years party was really good for me, i found four women that would like to learn bellydancing with me, and one will teach me fire baton "wooooo hooooo". we have decided to get the hahbiru instructional tapes and teach ourselves, then when we can all get to an event we can get some correctional instructions on steps we are not doin right. fire finger?, do you have any idea where you could find these? thanks jennifer for the info and help, hope we can meet up sometime.
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Re: new to the tribe
Sun, January 2, 2005 - 3:54 PMCheryl Bushey has a studio in Lubbock called Tribal Rythum. She is sponsering Jim Boz (a well known male belly dancer) in February for a workshop. Her websit is www.tribalrhythm.com
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Re: new to the tribe
Tue, January 4, 2005 - 2:32 PMjust looked at the videos, i'm hyped to the max. "old can dance" :)
i'll be dragging the crew to lubbock for classes. thanks zanubia
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