Current location:	school
Current mood:	annoyed yet chipper :)
Entry tags:	belly dancing, pictures

Usurper!!
Alas!! My belly dancing gig for Saturday night has been usurped by go-go dancers!!! :(
Damn.

So, here is what the gig was:
- the birthday party of a nightclub owner in Augusta, GA
- it is a "white" party (everyone is supposed to wear white)
- there's going to be a white tiger apparently!!

As a group, we all practiced last night (til quite late!) but found out this morning that the organizer chicky didn't want us anymore :(
And I was going to get to wear a super-nifty bead-encrusted outfit...

A little backstory...
On Wednesday (that's 3 days before the show), the organizer chicky suddenly asked, "So, do you have white costumes?" Umm, have you EVER seen a belly dancer in a white costume? The answer was no. We could give her white veils but that was it... Maybe if she'd asked 3 weeks ago when she booked us something could have been done... Not all white costumes though... Icky.
Also on that Wednesday, organizer chicky asked if we belly danced to hip-hop. Umm, again, 3 days beforehand? Three weeks ago we could have done something. She was worried that since people will have been dancing to hip-hop and then our show would come on that the mood would be ruined or something... What does one expect belly dancers to dance to? Slow moody songs?? We wanna shake our groove things!! And be snake-y sometimes ;) People would have thoroughly enjoyed it.

So, what my teacher thinks really happened is that the go-go dancers are willing to stay all night (us = 45 min show) AND they were probably cheaper.

Ah well. OrganizerChicky had to pay a deposit so I'll get a little from that... But alas! My first paying gig is a dud ;)

To tide everyone over, here is a picture from the recital in May of this year...

I like this one because it is so action-packed :)
I really have to remember to ditch the glasses while dancing...
By the way, those are exercise balls behind me :)