American Tribal Style?

A few months back, I had to do some belly dance teacher soul searching. I teach American Tribal Style Belly Dance. Recently, the creator of this amazing dance form, Carolena Nericcio, has become increasingly vocal that all ATS dancers should do the dance the way she does, or it shouldn’t be called ATS. [...]

Apologies, Neglected Blog of Mine.

Wow, April was my last blog post? Ok, so I’m a little behind here. Everything is pretty good. I’ve taken a generally optimistic turn. Dance classes have been going great.
At the beginning of the summer I started a new Beginning American Tribal Style class in a new, more popular time slot. [...]

My Brain Has a Mind of Its Own

I got some bad news earlier today (nothing life or death, just a little disheartening).
When I went to dance rehearsal tonight, I was feeling a bit down, but not too far into the 3 hour long rehearsal, I had forgotten all about it. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, this worn down feeling would come [...]

Fleet Feet Demo

Me and some troupe mates did a demo at Fleet Feet tonight at their annual Diva Night. It was much more crowded than I expected. I thought it would be a dozen women in a shoe store doing Diva-esque, female-bonding type things. Turns out, it was actually around 40 women, lots of demos [...]

TribalCon 2009

My TribalCon experience this year was absolutely amazing! This was my second year attending, and I think this year’s was even better than last year’s.
The venue was the same: Holiday Inn in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Decatur is a darling little town with beautiful old buildings and funky little shops and cafes. However, [...]