Tribal Fest is like summer camp for bellydancers!
OMG I love Bones the TV series and it’s totally Lacey’s fault! Ha ha…yeah so I’m having this major love affair with Netflix and the last 4 seasons of Bones! That’s what I watched on my personal DVD player all the way up from down under the Orange Cutain to Sebastopol for the 9th Tribal Fest put on by Kajira of Black Sheep Bellydance and her lovely camel, er I mean husband Chuck (hee hee, he won’t get mad at me for saying that cause every significant other of a bellydancer is a camel by default right? Right!) Ok so we got there and the weather was so nice. A cool breeze was blowing… it was a cool 80ish degrees so my little pea-sized brain decided to assume that the entire weekend might be that cool and comfortable. Um hmmm, yeah no! What the hell was I thinking? It’s NEVER that cool up in Sebastopol during the Tribal Fest weekend! Holy crap! It ended up being soooo hot –like usual. Ha! But in perspective, it smelled much better than last year! You see someone had just recently laid fertilizer right before Tribal Fest last year and let’s just say it was even hotter than this year so yup it smelled! But seriously, no matter what glitch it is still the best freakin festival evar! Why? Cuz it’s the original, longest running tribal festival and the place where many of us got our starts. I debuted my bellydance version of my pierced wings piece at TF 06! Yup! Ok so back to Thursday. So I taught my Mind the Requisitioning choreography class that evening in the thankfully air conditioned Youth Annex. Loved it! I had many familiar and new faces in class and we had a great time knocking out that chorography. Yeah, I kicked their asses but you know they loved it! So, Friday was all Gothfia all day! Chaos central was Tempest’s vending space. And there the Gothfia, perched upon their posts watched (had a perfect view of the stage), listened and sold our wares. It was always funny when a “Gothic Bellydancer” was announced that people would look over at us (Temepst, Asharah and moi). Friday’s dance festivities were opened up by Asharah, Tempest and Anaar doing the opening ritual. It was a great way to bring the energies into the space and bring the dance to its fruition. The devilish Miss Tempest also did her Steampunk piece with her fricken cutest evar curls “With a crew of drunken pilots, we're the only Airship Pirates!” Loved it! Suhalia and her crew wrapped up the night and I got to see my long lost pal Brittany Lelah do her chair piece with the troupe! Rad!
Ok so then Saturday it was even hotter and shopping was soooo hard because of that but I didn’t care…muahahahahah! Shiney things... Ok but Dood! Asharah danced to a live cellist…so yummy, and Fat Chance…ahhhh Fat Chance…Kajira…sigh…I love that woman!!!!....Samantha Rigg’s piece was freakin hilarious and right out of Bollywood, Rach and Zoe kicked ass and Miss Jill Parker melted everyone in the room with her sexy hotness…and me…hee hee hee…well I danced to Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down”! Ironic, aint it? Mmmhmmmm… muahahahahahahah! Video will be posted on youtube within the week! Garsh the rest is a blur. I know I’m forgetting peeps and stuff…can’t blame that on any altering substances…just the heat…but man, Tribal Fest is so my freakin favorite festival…I already said it’s like summer camp but really, it is. I get to see my friends from all over the world every year….love it! Ok, I’m done babbling about TF 09…the end for now…k….bye…
Gothla…musings of a maniac
OMG I forgot to blog about Gothla….why, because I was crazy running it! This is what I saw….I think…..Lacey’s big beautiful eyes, Asharah’s butt, Raine riding Treavor, Shakra laughing, Raine sprinkling glitter on Treavor’s naked chest before introducing me for the gala show and saying “I love boys who sparkle”, getting dragged behind the Nyx Fusion booth, shinney things at Tribal Bazaar, Annar’s stuff I didn’t enough time to look at, Jill Tracey, a piano, Princess’s laugh, Leeeeeeeeeeeeee Ali and the Motif, dark mistress Callisto and the sai, Chaaaarrrllllieeeeee, Geisha Moth’s see through poofy stuff, Tempest being interviewed for the LA Weekely online, helping the Unextraordinary Gentlemen find the ir way from the parking lot to the festival -yeah we know peeps- we’re working on making it all easier and food food food….XO!...Yani and the vendors…the white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only…wait no that’s at the airport ok…looking at all the pretty people, Black Lotus…Christine…wanting to hide under the table at that booth and rifle thru all the pretties, Sooz making silly faces, seeing Laurie Miller for only a sec as uber kick ass stage manager, being asked 10, 000 questions and freaking loving every single bit of it. Dood, I seriously didn’t know I could operate at that speed. Ha ha! I should finally get the footage of my piece from the Gothla Gala show up on youtube up in about a week. I'll let you know when I do!!!