Get the $30 Secret to Belly Dance Success
Are you frustrated with your dance progress? Is your creativity on the down swing? Do you have big goals that never seem to get any closer to reality no matter how much work you put in? Maybe you are like I was. Maybe you are limited by techniques that can only get you so far. [...]
Go With Your Flow
If you look at movies or read biographies based on the lives of famous entertainers, one thing that stands out is that they all are compelled to perform and are true to who they are. Ray Charles was a good performer when he copied other people’s style. People definitely appreciated his talent, but he didn’t [...]
Wheaton’s Law Goes Glitter and Sequins/Ethics and Etiquette for Dancers
This article on etiquette for dancers was written by Nadira and appears on her website here. Not all dancers have business acumen. On the real, most of us don’t. As Onca O’Leary says, “Many of us are artists who stumbled into the business world.” Fortunately, my mentor was also a great businesswoman and presented the [...]
Why You Should Do Dance Assessments?
If you’ve checked out my book Beyond Moves, Combos and Choreography, you know that I am a fan of dance assessments. If you don’t know why you should do dance assessments, read on! Studies show that people and organization that utilize assessments have many advantages: * Improved performance (results) * Improved learning (insight) * [...]
How To Get The Most From Your Belly Dance Classes
When I started dancing, I didn’t have the slightest clue of how to get the most of my dance classes because I started as an adult. I didn’t grow up with a background of classical dance where you did this, then that, and took several classes per week and were expected to practice several hours [...]
How to Critique Your Own Performance
Before I became a good belly dance teacher, I didn’t have good students. I was an alright teacher with alright students. They didn’t become good until I began giving them good feedback and teaching them how to do this for themselves. There are many things that raise one dancer above another, but I believe this [...]
There is No Substitute for Practice
If you want to be a good belly dancer, you have to invest time into developing your skills. This may sound like a no-brainer, but few of us actually put this into practice. There really is no substitute for belly dance experience. You get that by being engaged. Belly dance is the only dance style [...]
The Power of the Pause
“Music is the space between the notes.” ~Claude de Bussy What a wonderful quote! What an inspired man. He could see that it is not just the things that you add that make a piece work, but the things that you leave out. It’s about the space. The power of the pause. The lingering air. [...]
Establish a Strong 90% Before Incorporating the 10%
There are lots of workshops out there advertising, “SNAP! CRACKLE! POP!” Instinctively we know that what makes one performance stand out isn’t the ordinary, easy stuff, so we go for this. The problem that I see with this is that either the instructors aren’t putting it into perspective or the students are getting the message [...]
Why Do You Dance?
Why do you dance? There are all sorts of answers to that question, but knowing the underlying reason can help you to shape your dance experiencing (teaching, learning, performing, choreographing, directing troupes, etc) so that it is one that fulfills you and gives the maximum to others. Motivational guru, Anthony Robbins, says that there are [...]
