Ahlan!
5 August 2008

Welcome, I thought I would join the millions of 'others' out there in cyberspace, and write a blog.  A bit of blah, blah, bla-dy blah, for lack of a better word, on my views and thoughts on dance, but namely bellydance.

For me there are two categories of dance expression, dance that has originated in thought (left brain thinking), and feeling dance (right brain thinking).  One logical and thought out, planned, structured with patterns, motifs, shapes and use of space, either with the inspiration from the music or a theme and than find music to suit the idea.  The other improvisation, or freestyling as some other dance forms call it, is a mere expression of feeling to a piece of music in that moment in time that is stirred to such a state of passion, heat of the moment, with no thought present in the mind but a kind of spiritual connection to something higer, a meditation of sorts where you the dancer meld with the music and the two combine to make another energy with movement and emotion, a creation on the spot as your body becomes the mind of movement.  It is like poetry in motion.  Being a poet myself, I feel that improvised dancing is somewhat the same as I channel in a piece of poetry, sometimes it is brillant and other times mediocre!


11 September 2008
Today we take a moment to remember those that died in the 9/11 disaster in the US.  We send love and thoughts of great compassion for all those families who are thinking of their father, mother, daughter, son, friend today.  Let us hope, that out of this horror, a new desire for unity, love and compassion will grow.  May we strive as a human race to evolve to a higher consciousness that will find other ways to resolve conflict and tolerate differences.