Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in Vretina's LiveJournal:

Monday, March 6th, 2006
11:52 am	Perfomance of the year Performance in Toronto was great -- at the end of our dance the crowd exploded with applause and cheering. Actually, it sounded more like a roar with a few high pitched voices over it. And later on we got showered with compliments; somebody even said it was the best performance they've ever seen and that we stood apart from every other group in how "tightly together" we were and the amount of fine tuning up to facial expressions and head tilts. Can't wait to see the recording of our dance. I'm sure I'll find a few imperfections, but oh well. I already know I did a tiny mistake at the very beginning. It's ironic that I never had a problem with this move during practices, while it took everybody else a long time to get down right, and in the performance everybody got it right but me. I felt unexpectedly calm and relaxed considering it was my biggest performance to date. Extreme fatigue from lack of sleep, food and a whole day of taking dance workshops with egyptian star prior to the performance must have inhibited me enough not to feel nervous :) Personal recipe to fight the nerves: complete exhaustion or drugs (flu medication that is). And it's good to know that my mother didn't come because she thought that bellydance in not an appropriate thing for my little sister to see. That hurt, but I'll have to get over it just like I did over every other thing before. Although I'm kind of happy that they didn't come because that egyptian star did the raunchiest dance I've ever seen. She really didn't do much, just a lot of bending over and shoving her butt into the musicians face. He actually stumbled in his lyrics and that was hilarious. And then everybody talked how wonderful and incredibly sexy her dance was. To me it was like hearing people admire some stupid piece of modern art. My brother compared it to putting a BMW symbol on a shitty car and vice versa. If I saw that performance on TV without knowing who the dancer is, I would have turned it off. But in middle-eastern culture emotion and music interpretation are valued more than cool moves and sparkly costumes. Actually it is their main criticism of north american bellydance that often dancers do not "feel" the music, they are just concerned with getting the steps right. I agree, but that star dancer's performance was still vulgar and boring. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2006
3:56 pm	I'm famous! Well, sort of.. Vanity fest today! My picture is in Kingston's newspaper today, though I'm disapointed they haven't run the article about the upcoming perfomance.. but I guess it is not considered to be a local event. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
4:08 pm	Photoshoot Today we had Veils of Isis photoshoot which took 1.5 hours and many runs through our choreo to get the shots in motion. That was fun, and our photographer Mark was incredibly sweet. So proper that it was almost too much; but I guess you kind of have to be when you're shooting 5 beautiful half-naked women..hehehe... My teacher Kellye suggested I do modeling... somehow I doubt the scars will look good even on the most professionally done pictures, but I'll entertain myself with this idea for a while. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
5:56 pm	It was so amazing to get outside again... in those several days that I've been cooped up inside after surgery the entire city had poofed up with vivacious green. It's the kind of green that you want to bite into to feel its freshness and exhilarating aroma of new life. As happy as I am to be outside on my feet again, I feel surprisingly antisocial today. Spent my lunch alone reading study materials. The coworkers that I usually have lunch with thought that I went to the library to nap on the comfy armchairs. Now both of our labs are empty -- everybody's gone to some seminar, while I'm stealthily typing away :). I'd better go before somebody leans over my shoulder and asks what in the hell am I doing (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 19th, 2003
8:06 pm	another pathetic attempt ok, is there anything else for me here to screw up? Thanks for fixing all the mess Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)