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- Article: What Should You Expect from a Professional Performer? (Are you ready to call yourself a professional?)
- Article: How to Tip a Dancer
- About Blessing Ways
- Belly Dance with Suzy: A Prenatal Exercise
- Belly Dancing During Pregnancy: A Video by Gaby Mardshana Oeftering
- Ideas for Blessing Ways: Honouring the Expectant Mother Through Gathering and Ritual
- FAQ - I am pregnant. I heard that bellydance will be good for me. Is this true?
- Articles
- Review: Advanced Workshop and Shows with Dina of Cairo
- Recent Article in VOXAIR, CFB 17th Wing Base's Newspaper
- Reflections on the Dance MB Provincial Dance Festival, May 15-2, 2005 (and Beyond)
- Recommended Books, Music and Videos
- Looking the Part: General Costuming Guidelines for Performance of Middle Eastern Dance
- Choosing a Teacher
- How to Tip a Dancer
- What to Expect from a Bellydance Class
- Protocols and Expectations of Performing as a Professional Dancer, or, How To Avoid Stepping on Toes
- What Should You Expect from a Professional Performer? (Are you ready to call yourself a professional?)
- Dance Costume Checklist for Performers
- About Charging Standard Rates
- Video review: Belly Dance with Suzy: A Prenatal Exercise
- Workshop review: Suzy in Winnipeg, March 13 and 14, 2004
- Video review: Nourhan Sharif: An Introduction to Bellydance Technique
- Ask Nicola
- Classes
- Q - I see classes advertised in various places, and the fees are so different. Even yours have different
prices. Some are in studios, some in gyms. Why? - Q - I took a session with another instructor and didn't like it. I am in your class now and it's totally different.
I feel like I am starting over. Why are classes so inconsistent? - Q - How long will it take me to "get good"?
- Q - I am pregnant. I heard that bellydance will be good for me. Is this true?
- Q - Will I have to dance in a recital or learn a choregraphy?
- Q - I am changing to a new teacher. What level should I take?
- Q - I have a beginner video. Can I take intermediate class?
- Q - There are so many classes advertised. How do I know who is a good teacher?
- Q - I saw a dancer once in a restaurant. I thought bellydance was cheesy and dumb.
Why should I bother taking a class or going to another show? - Q - Why do I need to learn finger cymbals right away?
- Q - I have no rhythm. Will bellydance classes help??
- Q - I see classes advertised in various places, and the fees are so different. Even yours have different
- Costuming
- Performance
- Q - I was at the recent Jalilah workshop in Winnipeg, which was GREAT! I loved it. I saw brochures for
another workshop there, but someone told me I shouldn't go. What's up with that? - Q - I want to hire a dancer for an event, but I don't want it to be too sexy. How do I tell her this?
- Q - I saw a dancer once in a restaurant. I thought bellydance was cheesy and dumb.
Why should I bother taking a class or going to another show? - Q - What is appropriate behaviour if my partner (husband, boyfriend, whatever) is in the audience when I'm
on stage or in a resturant dancing? / I was invited to see a bellydancer at a resturant. where is it polite
to look/not look? - I'm not sure how to act
- Q - I was at the recent Jalilah workshop in Winnipeg, which was GREAT! I loved it. I saw brochures for
- General questions about Belly Dance
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