Back to bellydance

I finally got back to bellydance class this week after a very bad bout of allergies. Feels so good to be back in class and pushing myself. I go to a double class on Monday night, in Maitrland, run out of the Simplee Jazz studio in High Street. The class is run by Mikola, who is a great teacher and a lovely dancer. She does a beginners class at 6.30 and an intermediate class at 7.45, both running for an hour. As money isn't an object (she accepts payment in LETS Mollies) I go to both classes. I figure it never hurts to go back over the basics and as she teaches differently to Sharon, my first teacher, I am always picking up something new.

This semester, Mikola is teaching the Intermediate class all about drum solos, and it seems she is intending us to do a demo of one in July at a bellydance festival in the vineyards. I love the drum solos, but am unsure about doing a demo, as the last one was a fiasco.

The last demo we did was at a Seniors Wellbeing expo at the Maitland Town Hall. I felt like we didn't do enough practice. All the other women had done the dances at a demo before, and had done extra practices to ensure they knew what they we doing. I didn't so I wasn't sure, and in consequence, I felt like I had done really badly.

The medieval dance classes I run are going well. We have a good solid core group who regularly turn up to the Saturday classes in Newcastle, and we have been asked to do some demos in the next few weeks. This Saturday we are doing a demo for a 60th birthday party in Rutherford. Steve and I will lead and Evelyn and Andrew the Bearded have committed to dance too. We will stick to the simple dances which look good.

Next week is "Cultural Stomp" a multicultural event held in Civic Park, Newcastle where we will be doing a demo instead of our usual dance class. Come and have a look if you are in the area. We are supposed to be dancing from 3.30pm. There is always lots of entertainment, and plent to see. I think Evelyn is also organising a LETS stall for the day.

In July we have been asked to do a demo for the Hamilton CWA, and maybe actually get some of their people up to dance. That should be fun. Some of the dances are so simple, anyone can join in.