Our first concert – a sneak peek at the sold out performance

29 Jan 2013 3 Comments

by jadebellydance in Belly Dance, Costume Design, Photo Challenge, Tribal Belly Dance, Tribal Costume Tags: , , , , , , ,

The Bellingen and Dorrigo classes of Jade Belly Dance came together in December to put on a spectacular concert night. We were joined by the lovely ladies of Masana Belly dance from Grafton and we had a great time. It was a night for all ages. It was held in the small town of Dorrigo NSW at the super cute Dorrigo Drama Club Theatre. We were utterly stunned when the stage manager whispered to us that it was a full house – we hadn’t even had much time to advertise it!

Putting on a show is a lot of work and I have so much respect for those that do it regularly! I am putting up these photos for my students that have been away over the holidays and haven’t yet seen them. There is some excellent photography by Bruce Thomas and a few pics by Tammy Mills-Thom so I hope my regular readers don’t mind having a look too. Photos of the evening are available for $10 for disc (it includes many more photos than these in higher resolution) contact me on jadebellydance@hotmail.com if you are wanting some to keep.

Masana wows the crowd
Bello kids Khaleegy
Sabre Savour
A touch of Tajik
Bellynesian
Some of the beautiful decorating done by my students
Most enthusiastic student went to this lovely lass
Go Ash!
Peek-a- boo
Mirror-ring
FInale piece
Gorgeous gals
The Bellinger River Dance
A very nervous mother and daughter dance
Pin wheel magic
Children’s veil dance
Khaleegy

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

03 Dec 2012 Leave a comment

by jadebellydance in Photo Challenge Tags: , , ,

The picture for today is not awesome in its quality (wish it were a bit better focussed!) but what I find interesting is that the reflection does not quite look like the subject and furthermore the shadow appears to be different again! It’s like a portrait of me, myself and I and we are all just slightly out of sync. It is not photo-shopped except that I took the window out of the reflection – the rest is as it was taken.

Belly Dancer in Mirror

Me, Myself and I

I am fascinated by reflections and have posted several of my favourite pics on that topic in previous posts like

https://jadebellydance.com/2012/11/22/conquering-fears-what-inspires-me-to-blog/

https://jadebellydance.com/2012/03/29/weekly-photo-challenge-through/

This is a straight up photo post not my usual more informative post style because…..

Jade Belly Dance is all gearing up for the end of year concert on December 8th in Dorrigo NSW. It is sure to be a blast!

Organising the event has been taking up most of my time so posting will be a little less until next week. I just couldn’t miss this weeks photo challenge however.

Anyone else have mirror oriented belly dance photos? I would love to see them.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Green

20 Nov 2012 4 Comments

by jadebellydance in Belly Dance, Photo Challenge Tags: , , , , , , ,

Had to participate in this word press photo challenge! Jade is a shade of green after all.

So may I present my belly dance snap shots in green (+ a couple of photos of me by the talented Leigh Jensen and Bruce Thomas).

I love silk skirts
Look at that green view! Dancing in a rural area has to have some perks!
The jade shirts look a bit more blue than they are in reality.
This skirt is actually more of a teal but it looks green in the photo so I thought I would include it.
Photo by Leigh Jensen
Ok so maybe I am naturally bias about the colour green …
Green bra in the process of being altered.
Think I may have made the choreography a bit too tricky!
One of my medieval type outfits
Dendera Temple Egypt 2010
Home made costume but still pretty great – I have now made a new bra for this costume that matches the skirt and belt even better.
This costume arrived in a much brighter green than I wanted. As a result this is one of the few pictures of me wearing it.
Photo by Bruce Thomas, Photo Art by Tahnee
There were definitely fairies in this garden!

Green is also a notoriously difficult colour to get in belly dance costumes and is really hard to accessorise.

Blue seems to be a lot more forgiving when it comes to mixing different shades but I love green so much I just keep trying to find a great green outfit. I am pretty happy with my mostly home-made olive green bellynesian outfit and my new green and black custom made outfit from Egypt that I have yet to wear (the bra getting altered below is part of that ensemble) but my favourite green costume in terms of versatility, comfort, shade of green and price is the beaded green costume that I am wearing in the fairy garden below.

I hadn’t intended on most of the pictures being of me  – but I don’t know many other people that wear green as much as I do!!

What’s your favourite coloured (colored) costume? Have you had trouble finding a look that is just right? Comment below.

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