Monday, March 28, 2005

Dancing Eggs!

Friday night I went to see my friend Moody babe perform belly dance for the first time.  She was very nervous, but she did such a great job!  Her costume was fabulous, deep purple (which is my favorite color) and silver. 
Some of the other dancers weren’t so hot.  Normally I am not one to judge other people’s abilities, I figure they are up there giving it their all and that’s a lot than I am willing to do.  I made an exception this time though.  Mostly because the one dancer that I really REALLY don’t like performed.  She has been performing all over town for quite awhile.  And I just don’t like her.  Most of the time she does “improve” dancing, where she just jumps on stage and dances.  I think that is okay, if you know your music.  To me it seems that she is always one step behind the beat and the transition and that bugs me.  I like people to be in time with the music, to feel it and know when it’s going to change.  Of course I am spoiled too…
Friday night she put on a “practiced” performance and I didn’t think it was any better.  She still missed some beats and transitions. 
That and I thought belly dance involved, I dunno, dancing.  This lovely lady didn’t really do much – she moved her hands around and kind of scared some kids by hiding out under her veil most of the time, but she didn’t do a lot of dancing.  It bugged me.
The overall level of performance was pretty good.  They were doing aromatherapy dancing.  They sprayed the audience with scent and read a little something about the scent before the dancers came out.  It was a good concept. 

All I really have to say is “GO MOODY BABE!” It totally rocks that you did what you did and I hope you perform again. 

Saturday Afternoon I participated in an age old tradition.  Egg decorating.  Of course, this particular egg decorating scenario happened with a twist.  This time around it was egg decorating with super glue!  Yeah for super glue! 
There were some very interesting eggs created, and I wish I had pictures, but I forgot my camera (and so did everyone else.) Maybe next year

The other fun thing I did was blow eggs for the first time.  I’m not sure if that is actually the technical term for blowing the yolk out of an egg, but that is what happened.  It wasn’t easy, but feeling how light the eggshell was empty was really neato