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Let’s get this year off to a good start. I wanted to offer you a gift, a free copy of
Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance,
by moi…
Herei s what I would like you to do… write comment back here on this blog—
What do you want out of your dance in 2010? It could be a simple request or could be a long waited for desire.
Let us know so we can all support you in your dreams! and I will pick your name out of a turban and send one luck winner my book to get you started on your dancing dreams! Deadline January 20th (right before I embark on my Australian dance tour)
I wish you all the best in the new year, may you be fantastically special and prosperous in all of your artistic endeavors! And thank you so much for being a part of my blog, my dance and writing dreams, and my crazy farmgirl life. I am so glad you are here.
Yes, time to think about our dance and the new year! 2010…what do we want from our dance in this new year? let’s dance, trance, and write about it, together.
Join us as we kick in the year with the continuation of our fabulous series…
Tribal Trance Dance, the Friday Night Series
Fridays, once a month, 6:30-8pm
Friday, January 8th, with Paulette and Lynea—
Celebrate Winter with African Dance, Trance, and Writing–
Dancing with wildness and using words we emerge with jewels from the beauty of our own inner spirit,
with time to capture that spirit and put it down in the private pages of our journals. Wear loose dance clothes.
6:30-8:00 pm
held at Om Studio, 14 NE 10th, Portland, OR
Space is limited, sign up now to reserve your space.,please register in advance by emailing Paulette at
I noticed that through my international monthly e-newsletter, Caravan Trails, dancers would read what I wrote and write back to me with thoughts, questions, and responses to my articles. How exciting to hear back from you, my readers and fellow dancing friends, and that I could ellicit a response from my thoughts. Well, why not take this idea further.
I had the thought of asking my readers to share their experiences in my monthly mailing, by starting a forum for writing. Delicious Divas Dancing Dreams, or D-Quad…
This did not have to be for professional writers, but a place to be heard. I made my proposal, and the rest was up to you. And you did it. I thought of a dance related topic. Some of you dabbled, and some wrote in length—it was all good. Lovely. Delightful. Colorful and emotional.
So out came A Tribal Dancer’s Anthology after the 1st year’s collection. I hope it will continue to inspire each of you, and remind you of the different paths and journeys we all have made and are continuing on, and that it takes all of us to complete our circle. Let us continue to write about the dance and I will help to share.
See below for purchasing information for the Anthology, and let me know what you think! and watch for the December issue of Caravan Trails, out next week, with this year’s first three entries of D-Quad.
Enjoy the season!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!
The Anthology is here!
Today, Thanksgiving! What a gift….
A Tribal Dancer’s Anthology —
$6.00
Delicious Divas Dancing Dreams A Tribal Dancer’s Anthology – a PDF download
D-Quad 2008-2009, Volume One 52 pages, 11 x 8.5″
You can click here to purchase!
Over the past year, many dancers have written in to my monthly enewsletter, Caravan Trails/Tribal Travels, to share their dance experiences and visions with me and our readers. It has been so exciting and rewarding to reprint these words, poems, artwork, and stories and put them into one beautiful anthology, our first one, for you to treasure, reread, be inspired by, and honor our experiences in dance, and life.
Here are just a few wonderful excerpts from the Anthology:
from the poem, Essence, by Luluna…
Head sways, hand swoops,
hip swerves, skirts swirl,
Bellies ripple, bodies whirl.
from Hilary Giovale…
Tribal Style was here in front of my eyes – the passion and deep beauty that women are capable of when they come together in a common creative endeavor. I suddenly understood it as the synergy that occurs when women move in unison, when they unite in a visual representation of heartfelt self-expression.
from Lynea Gillen…
I realize it’s the same thing I feel in circles of tribal dance. It’s the healing quality, and the community support that has been the most important aspect of the dance.
from Myla Stauber…
Women moving in their own perfect space, barefoot on the pavement, owning the pavement, and time slows, nearly stops, in their ticking moments of vulnerability and strength melding in movement and exposure.
And we have included photos and bios of the writers who have so graciously contributed to this gathering of dancer’s dreams! What is excitingly different, is that this anthology is available to you in PDF format, for you to read and keep on your computer, or to print if you desire the paper version. This is my way to experiment with technology to be a paper-saving, cost-efficient way of sending you this art booklet. Only $6.00 Buy Now
My desire is that you honor the art, the art form of this Anthology, and the Publisher. by not resending the PDF to others. This is a one-time download for you. We thank you for not giving away or sharing the Anthology. When you purchase this Anthology, please be sure to include your email address so that I can send you the PDF.
Enjoy, and I look forward to Volume Two, next year at this time. Please see the monthly enewsletter for submission guidelines, and be a part of the growing network of dancer’s words. Thank you!
**And an extra special treat for you! If you order my book, Tribal Vision: A Celebration of Life Through Tribal Belly Dance, now, you will receive the Anthology FREE! by December 10th.
May you have a splendid holiday season! Keep on dreaming and dancing, and being remarkable..
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Here is someone else trying to do something more for the people and the planet, thought I would pass this along to you. Let me know if you are going to try it–it would be great to share here!
29 GIFTS — GIVE A LITTLE BIT. MAKE A BIG IMPACT.
Visit 29-Day Giving Challenge at: http://www.29gifts.org
Another thing I can do is pass on information that I find useful, informative, inspiring,for you and our One More Thing ideas!
So do your thing and be fantabulous!
Yes, my dancers have done me proud! Amanda Richardson, from Wisconsin, and Hilary Giovale, from Arizona, have completed their certification in CS 3! They are the first, other than my Gypsy dancers, to have gotten this far with my training. They have worked so hard to get this far, believing in this dance, in me, and mostly in themselves! It takes courage, time, discipline, desire, and yes, some money, to keep studying with your teacher, especially long distance. These girls have achieved the next level of their goals, Collective Soul Level Three! And they want more…
What can I say but woo hoo, dancers, you are rocking out! On we go to CS Level Four, and Teacher Training Level Three, and rumor has it they may be joining me, Gypsy Caravan, and the Caravan Soul Collective International in performance next May at the Tribal Fest, in California. I have been confirmed as a teacher again this year on Sunday May 16th. Very exciting news, and what an honor! We love our annual pilgrimage to the dance festival, seeing good friends from around the world and lots of innovative (and sometimes not) dance performances. But it takes us all to make the world shine and be exciting and full.
Can you feel the love?
Anyone else going?
Each month I like to bring you some delightful bellydance goodies for a special price! For November, I have two specials…
Hoodie Special #1.
Ready for winter? Gildan hoodie- with pockets, zip front, fuller cut, normally $42.00 This month, only $36.00 plus S&H… 50% cotton, 50% poly, snuggly and soft and warm! Black–sizes small to extra large Maroon- sizes small to extra large
http://www.gypsycaravan.us/shopping/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=69&products_id=327
Buy any 2 Tribal Technique DVDS and get 20% off your purchase!
there are 8 to choose from!
http://www.gypsycaravan.us/shopping/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=75&products_id=332
through November 30th…
or visit http://www.gypsycaravan.us
thanks for your support and for your love of our dance!
Before I continue on with CS3 that just finished, I need to congratulate the CS 2 grads from England in October!
After I finished up with CS 1 in Aylesbury, with six lovely dancers getting certified, I taught at the Tribe Vibe Festival for a weekend, and then went on to do three more days of CS2 in Lewes with five more dancers! Who all did fantastically, by the way. I so enjoy working with dancers who have been studying with me for quite awhile now. To see them grow into their dance with more confidence and skill is exciting for them and rewarding for me, and they looked so beautiful dancing together!
so hugs, kisses and gold stars to to
CS2 grads- UK 2009
Louisa, Steffi, Eleanor, Mel, and Emma! woo hoo…
keep on dancing, sistas!
Thank you for being so dedicated and hard-dancing, and for loving this dance. You keep making your mama teacher so proud…
and I did write more about this in the latest newsletter, Caravan Trails, you can go to the website to subscribe
more on CS3 to follow…
It’s almost here…Our 1st yearly D-Quad Anthology. With the sometimes simple, often eloquent, heart and soul searching thoughts, stories, and poems submitted to me over the past year, how could I not compile them into one dancer’s anthology? And make a lovely little handbook (of sorts) for you, to inspire your dancing journeys for the next year. Since part of my mission is to get dancers to write more, and to write about their dancing stories, this online format is the chosen way to get it to you. And as we move forward with this year’s D-Quad submissions, they will be collected for next year’s anthology, Volume 2!
I’m excited about offering this to you in PDF format, so you can choose to read it on line, or print it as you wish. It will be a telling experience to offer it to you this way, as it will be about trust. Since I am asking for a small payment to send the PDF to you via email, I will ask that you don’t then share it with others who have not paid for it. I love the idea, in the eco-friendly paper-saving era that we are in. So watch for updates, as it will be available soon…
And then, I can’t wait to hear how you are enjoying it!
NEWS: National Bookstore Day is Saturday, November 7. Support your local, independent bookstore.
A Tribal Dancer's Anthology Cover
cover artwork by our own fabulous Lydia hess!
One of the days that Louisa took me around the cute little town of Lewes, near Brighton, we went into a fabulous bookstore…danger, danger, I”m thinking of my luggage and the return flight home!
I could have bought several books, they were so unique and beautiful and different than many bookstores in the US, and and… but I contained myself, grabbing the new Tiniwaren CD, while leafing through many pages. I opened a poetry book by Peter Abbs, The Flowering of Flint, and the first page I turned to was a poem titled Artist’s Manifesto. It rang in my heart. I had to buy the book on that poem. And I have since fallen in love with his work. Evocative, questioning, stating what is.
The artist detonates his mind to let in God’s.
Under his loaded brush the world ignites.
Perception burns to vision. Metaphysics
Dance in his eyes. Under is finger-tips
All life’s transmutation, an alchemist’s laboratory
For experiments, Oh!-to set the imagination free
In the hard crucible of nature, to begin
To murder fate, to let the incandescent angel in!
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What do you think? The creative process is a wonderful and delightful adventure!
Dance and Winter
For the December D-Quad, Delicious Divas Dancing Dreams, our dancer/writer forum in my monthly newsletter, (Caravan Trails/Tribal Travels–which you can subscribe to on my web pages– www.gypsycaravan.us) can you write a poem or a short about Dance and Winter! Whatever those words mean to you, put them together and send it in to me at dance@gypsycaravan.us and include your bio and a photo if you have one!
Due by November 20th, 600 words or so…Thanks for sharing…
And watch for the Tribal Dancer’s Anthology, coming to you in PDF soom, very exciting!
