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| All photos taken by gilani photography |
The show featured my talented belly dancing teacher Adelaide and her sis, who have formed a group dubbed the Shimmy Sisters (cute!). Performing alongside was a middle-eastern flavored band called Danyavaad. Watching the show, I felt transported to gypsy's den, complete with snakes, swords and hypnotic colors. It was most definitely a hippie's dream!
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| Adelaide bravely dancing with a snake. |
These girls make belly dancing seem easy peasy; in reality, I now know how hard belly dancing is after taking a few lessons. I am forever wowed by the art form of belly dancing, and hope I can perfect a few moves. Oh, and can we bring up the snakes? SNAKES + BELLY DANCING = ONE BAD ASS COMBO!
Above: She's swallowing a sword...can you believe it??
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| Adelaide is a stellar acrobat! |
Alizera Gilani is a new friend of mine that took the above beautiful photos. Here is his web site.
Below is a picture of the band plus the Shimmy Sisters, and here is their web site where you can see awesome videos of the belly dancing in action.
Enjoy!
yeah that looks awesome. and i totally know you'd see that movie with me!! i don't get how it's so hard to get people to want to go see that? that is like pure gold!!
ReplyDeletewohoo. i've seen something like that before, and yes, it looks so easy and yet it is not. the swallowing the sword thing is something though i never get. really.
ReplyDeleteThat is crazy cool!! Thank you so much for your comment on my guest post on Traffic Jelly. I loved reading that you understood where I was coming from :) Sometimes when you write something like that, you wonder if it will resonate with anyone else. So thank you :)
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