Tomorrow will be my second official performance. Needless to say I'm really nervous (just writing about it makes me anxious).
Three other ladies and I will be dancing a hybrid sword choreography/Tribal improvisation piece at the monthly Drum & Dance Hafla hosted by Lorelei in Newark, Delaware. We are dancing as Daughters of the Hip, the student troupe from the Tribal Bellies Studio. Later in the evening Tribal Spirit, who is sort of like the "big sister" troupe to Daughters of the Hip, will also be dancing.
Other than the workshop where we actually learned the choreographed portion, we've rehearsed four times. I think I have the choreography section down, but whether I can remember it when on stage will be another matter entirely. Being rather new to balancing and dancing with a sword, I've been trying to forge a friendship with my new dance partner, a Balady Scimitar, and hopefully we will get along well tomorrow. Almost everything about this performance is fairly new to me, which makes this one more nerve-wracking than the previous one. I should really be more positive!
From what I understand, two people will be videotaping the performance, so in the not too distant future there will likely be some YouTube footage to reference.
2 comments:
4 times for rehersal seems too little time for me. :l
hope it all goes well nonetheless, ;)
I would have preferred to rehearse more myself, but that was all the time we had. Thankfully the choreography was only a short portion of the song (the song itself was only about 4 minutes) and it was fairly simple.
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