These girls did it! I think this quote says a lot about following your dreams, or not…and these girls took the plunge to take time to study and do what they needed and wanted to do to achieve some sort of life and dance goal. Pretty awesome, eh?

Collective Soul Level ONe

Brandy, (OR), Tracy (CA), Kat (WA), Cayte and Sarah (UK)

Collective Soul Level Two gals!

Darby, (OR), Deirdre (UK), Sherry (FL), Sienna and Dee (AUSTRALIA)

Actually Darby and Sherry were the grads! the other gals did a refresher course…good to do…

Collective Soul Level Three and me!

Sherry, Sienna, Dee, Deirdre, and me!

Dee at the Cultivator

And Dee finished her Teacher Training Level One while here too! talk about intensives…she danced on for three intensives and then some…

I am a proud mama, let me tell you.

Tribal Bellydance Intensives with Paulette of Gypsy Caravan, around the globe–

Want to go to Bali and dance? I can’t wait!
Bali, in January 2011!!
Workshops with Paulette, Cinzia of Les Soeurs Tribales, plus yoga and Balinese dance–Jan 10/11th
and Collective Soul Level 1 January 12/13/14
contact: cinziadicioccio@gmail.com

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Paulette In Western Australia, January, February 2011

Workshops plus Collective Soul and Teacher Training!

contact Becky
ziva@omninet.net.au

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JUST ADDED!
April 2011–Collective Soul Certification Intensives, Levels One and Two, and Teacher Training One, and Two…
around Paulette’s farm, Portland and Clatskanie, OR
Please email ASAP to let Paulette know of interest!
dance@gypsycaravan.us

Collective Soul Level One–
Teacher Training Level One–
Collective Soul Level Two–
Teacher Training Level One–
Around Portland and Paulette’s farm!

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We have finished a great two week dance intensive…

Congratulations to dancing graduate of Teacher Trainee Level 1, Dee Thomson from Brisbane, Australia!

Also to Collective Soul Level One dancers- Cayte Lawton, Sarah Jones, both from England, Tracy Carlton from California, Brandy Grey from Oregon, and Kat Abiola from Washington!

Congrats to CS2 grads, Darby Bacon from Oregon and Sherry Coffey from Florida,

and CS Three certified dancers from Sherry Coffey from Florida, Dee Thomson and Sienna from Australia, and Deirdre MacDonald from Scotland!
Thanks for joining us this August, 2010!

Collective Soul Levels One, Two, and Three, plus Teacher Training Level ONe is done! Whew… 2 weeks, 4 intensives…woo hoo…

congrats to everyone who came and sweated and danced and felt the love,

I”ll tell you more, but first…

only four more days of the summer blowout sale, through August 20th… see below.

DVDs and CDs… oh my…

get it now!

gina and crazy amanda

carol and karen  enjoying lunch

gina, nina, and kristi

kristi, pamela, paulette, carol, and karen

and a big hug from grazia!

Ah, so many photos, too little time!

If I could find someone to sort through my stacks of Gypsy Caravan photos, we are talking since 1991, wow, wouldn’t that be a blessing? Even just from the past year. Are we haven’t even  started on the video clips! Everyone is wanting youtube stuff, and I can’t get there…

ah well, here are some to start!

more to come!

with the Caravan Dance Collective and the Caravan Soul Collective International dancers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITas45W458A

part one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qEWPn1BJiw

part two

wow, what do you think??!!!

Congratulations to some hard dancing dancers! Nina Martinez from Australia and Cinzia DeCoccia from Italy completed Collective Soul Level Three here in my little home town in Oregon! That takes time and dedication to get this far in my certification program, so

woo hoo to them! Awesome…

And if that wasn’t enough, Hilary Giovale from Arizona and Amanda Richardson from Wisconsin flew out to complete Teacher Training Level Three with Nina, and then all four of them continued on with CS4! They are the first to have completed this level of intensive study with me (except my own dancers, of course!)I’m impressed and amazed at the level of commitment these beautiful dancers have shown, lots of focus and stamina goes into this type of training, but I might add, a lot of laughs and good times too. What a lovely international connection these women have made, and to dance together is such a high, a joy, a passion…

Dance on sisters…

and thank you for your trust, loyalty, and desire to be the best dancers and women you can be. You are…

Ah, we had such a great time on our last roadtrip…to Sepastopol, CA and Tribal Fest. The Gypsy Caravan Dance Company, with the Caravan Dance Collective and the Caravan Soul Collective International dancers, 11 of us gals, drove the 12 hours from Portland to dance, shop, watch other dancers, and schmooze with the tribes…

and this just emailed to me…makes it all worthwhile! (thanks Lia!)

Hi, Ladies.
Just wanted to let you know that watching your group dance at TF10 moved me to tears – it was so lovely and for me, epitomized what Tribal Bellydance is all about.
Thank you!
Lia Carotta

more photos and info to come

**We are proud and delighted to share the Tribal Fest stage with our troupe from Portland, Oregon, combining the Gypsy Caravan Dance Company with the Caravan Dance Collective and the Collective Soul International dancers!

Thanks for your years of support and for your tribal spirit.

Eleven of us from Portland and our dancing sisters from around the world will take the stage together on Saturday, just after 6 pm…Will you be there?

I’ll let you know how our road trip goes…