HIP-notize Art Show at DeSoto Row Gallery
My friends and I arranged an art show at DeSoto Row called HIPnotize, about Bellydancers! There were 6 of us involved, most of us recent SCAD alumni. It went really well! And of course we had live bellydancers at the opening. Being a bellydancer, I was obligated 
The artists! Anna Cooper, Carrie Padgett, Mary Larsen, Me and Alexandra!
Here is Carrie hanging up some of the artwork. She did the swirly paintings, and Mary did the dancers.
These are Anna’s paintings. She does them in acrylic with a super small paintbrush. The piece on the left turns from a skirt to fossils in the ground. Awesome!
Here are Mary’s girls. There was a ton of other art and Anna has a great blog post with pictures of everything.
Here is my contribution to the show- two 16″x40″ acrylic paintings. I’m so glad to have them done. I finished them half an hour before we hung the show- hahaha. It took me two days longer than I expected to finish them, since I’m so used to working digitally I forgot how much patience it takes.
Here I am after we hung the paintings! You can’t tell but I was spastically happy. And I had a cute outfit.
Cairo on the Coast Dancing!
Unfortunately we had to dance inside the gallery because it rained all day- we’d been planning to have all the dancing outside so people could wander in and out of the gallery at will, but we just took breaks between songs instead.
Thanks to everyone who was involved and came to the show. It really was fun, and I love you all. Please excuse my copious use of exclamation points in this post.
Bellydancing at Tantra, August 09
Cairo on the Coast, my dance troupe, did our usual gig with Mei’attah Raqs at Tantra Tapas & Sushi last night. The crowd was huge and enthusiastic, so thanks to everyone for making it a great evening! And I finally had my new green costume all put together!
I was super tired because I worked a morning shift that day and took a nap between work and bellydancing- when I woke up to my alarm, I was extremely disoriented and thought I was in highschool and had to get up, put on a uniform, and go to class. I was very upset until I remembered that I’m not a high schooler, I’m a bellydancer.
As usual, there was a token drunk lady running around. She danced by herself between our sets of dances. She was pretty into it. Unfortunately she didn’t do anything hilarious like the last drunk lady who poured a drink on her head and then went and barfed on the huge glass windows of the super expensive restaurant next door, but drunk dancing is pretty good anyway. She tried to dance with Nicole during one song and was promptly escorted off the stage by a waitress. I must say, though- apart from whoever the drunk lady is on any particular night, Tantra is a pretty classy place.
My friends and I have a tentative plan to have an art show this fall featuring belly dance art and the local troupes. It will mainly be a collection of our own work- but we will probably also have a call for entries as well. So if anyone has any belly dance art or ideas, start getting them together
Fall Begins
This quarter is going to Royally kick my butt. Goodbye summer free time.. I never liked free time much anyway.
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