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Yesterday I was thinking about
GoLive! - and specifically about what I might say to the participants to kick off the weekend. I feel like it merits some serious thought so I don't waste anyone's time. It's alot of people!
I'm so thrilled at the number of attendees this year! Over TWO TIMES that of last year with more registrations coming in. Yay! People get it!!
As a “belly dancer” - working with live music is so important! As an AMERICAN “belly dancer”, in my opinion, even MORE so. I feel like most of us American-born-with-non-Arab-roots dancers work hard - and some of us very hard - to find our place; to achieve a level of understanding that allows us to respectfully, yet personally, execute the movements, express the emotions, and interpret the music of the Arab world - the music that drives this dance that we, sometimes inexplicably, have come to love.
And I have witnessed firsthand the phenomenal depth reached by myself and my dance students when we use LIVE music - by creative, masterful musicians - as our means to that understanding, expression, and interpretation. At this point, quite honestly, I don't know how a dancer can fully achieve the same results otherwise.
So yes. I am THRILLED that we have so many attendees at GoLive! Just like I'm thrilled to see how many events are starting to take place all over the country to live music!
But I know there is a deeper opportunity in it all; one that certainly didn't occur to me until I was YEARS beyond my “dancing to live music” night club experience!
And ten years ago, the realization of that opportunity is what gave birth to
Project Band.
Project Band is ONE FULL YEAR of immersion in the idea of using live music to inspire, reveal, refine, develop, expand, educate, and invigorate YOU, the dancer!
It sounds like alot.
It is.
And it works.
