A Dance Tour: Friday, Oct 2

I had a GREAT weekend in Arcata with my lovely ladies of the Modrom Dance Collective. This past weekend was SO inspiring and SO much fun! I saw many awesome performances, attended inspiring workshops by Dalia Carella and spent a lot of time bonding with my troupe.

Friday
Angie, Shanti and I carpooled together. We left bright and early Friday morning. We ended up driving in shifts and we all had the chance to lay down in the back seat and nap. I'll never forget fantastic veggie sandwiches that Angie bought for us to eat along the way. There was a beautiful rest stop in the mountains amongst the conifer trees. I ended up dancing on top of a table. Unbeknownst to me, a little 3-4 year old girl was hiding behind a tree and was copying what I was doing. I saw her hiding from her family and smiling at us, but I didn't see her copying me. Shanti saw her dancing. She was the cutest little thing! I wonder if we inspired her to become a futuer belly dancer! It was at the rest stop that we all realized that we were on tour and are traveling performers. We were ON TOUR!

We made it to Eureka just in time to throw our things into our room at the Comfort Inn and change for the first workshop. From there we drove to Shoshanna's dance studio and danced a sexy oriental choreography that Dalia taught us. Kit was amazing out there. Even though she just wanted to be a part of the class, everyone was watching her. It was hard understanding what Dalia was explaining to us. Her dance vocabulary is different than Suhaila land vocabulary. I think I loved this workshop the most. Even though the choreography was harder to get into my body, I was in my element. This choreography really fit my personality. It was a lot of fun taking a class with a lot of my friends in it!

After the workshop we went to L. Rose designs for their meet & greet. With Trish's guidance, we made our way to the work-shop. I met Aroosh who made our veils and everyone who worked on our skirts at L. Rose. I finally got to meet Susan's daughter, Rachael. She is so adorable! I also got to speak briefly to Shoshanna, more than when she checked us in for Dalia's workshop earlier. We snacked on all the food that was there and went back home.

Friday night was absolutely off the wall funny. Shanti, Angie and I were going stir crazy trying to pack and repack for the next day's crazyness. We had a workshop in the morning, then a couple hours break before our performance. We kept barging in Kit and Tina's room all night, so much so, that we almost asked for our own key. Trish was so kind as to give me an Ambien to help me to get a good night's rest.