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Free Range Show Girl: off to Vietnam and Hong Kong!
All the costumes are sewn. All gigs, clases & shows covered. Workshops finally confirmed. Have a ride to & from airport. Fights, hotel, visas. Phew!!!
Now off to pack. I will hopefully be sending pictures from my phone to twitter @sabrinabd for twitpic links and facebook.com/sabrinabellydancer
don't know how much interwebs I'll have.
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Free Range Show Girl: priceless comments
Did 4 sets on Sat night. GV was slow but glad to have the gig. 2 set private party was split between those too embarrassed by their own presence to watch and the group of ladies who love to dance and joined in....and their little 5 year old boy who got down with some hip hop in the middle of the dance floor during the show ( Read more... ) -
free range show girl: the fund raiser
in the final hours of organization of the fundraiser for nadirah. i really hope we raise enough to be helpful to her. thank you to everyone who donated the outrageously generous raffle prizes.
i've been elected mc, so have sewn crystals to a red dress. that counts right? that makes it official?
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Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the showcase. Thanks to the amazing performers. Thanks to the venue - especially for the cool new purple and lime super stylin sofa in the dressing room/green room. A nice surprise & we like it ( Read more... ) -
Belly Dance Showcase Tonight!
Belly Dance Showcase Tonight!
Belly Dance Nights Showcase Tonight 9pm.
Lestat's West Theater. Cantera, Cairo Beats, Delilah, Elizabeth, and me. Only $5 for a lovely evening of entertainment. Hope to see you there.
www.lestats.com
3343 Adams Ave
San Diego, CA 92116-1821
(619) 282-0437
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Nadirah's Prayer Quilt Ceremony
Prayer quilt blessing ceremony for Nadirah. SUN. 10:45am. All faiths/non-faiths welcome to say a blessing/prayer/healing thought for her and tie a knot on the quilt. Many people take their quilts filled with prayers and well wished to chemo treatments. Helps get them through it. Many thanks to Badeah for making this possible ( Read more... ) -
The Donate Button
For those who have expressed desire to donate to my friend Nadirah, who is battling cancer :
The first "Donate" button is up on my site. I will put it on her site as soon as I have access.
http://sabrinabellydancer.com/news.html
If you wish to purchase fund raiser raffle tickets, please send $1 per ticket via the "Donate" button and send me an email ( Read more... ) -
Fundraiser for Nadirah
My friend and beautiful belly dancer, Nadirah, has been diagnosed with cancer. She is having emergency surgery. So I am organizing a fundraiser for her, which will be held during our normal Wed. Sept. 9th showcase at Lestat's West Theater. Middle Earth Ensemble will be performing with some favorite local dancers.
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Teaching
Tonight I had the honor of teaching 3 classes. I managed to turn this last weekend's two weird gig relinquishing incidents into teaching tools to help build my dancers "better, faster, stronger".
Lesson 1: If a house dancer suddenly takes you off the schedule because you "need to slim down" but you weigh less than when you auditioned and were hired ( Read more... ) -
Free Range Show Girl: Oy! ABC drama
Due to artistic differences, there will be no show or dance lessons at Ali Baba's Cave on Sundays.
Difference = I expect to be paid for my work :/
If a venue books a dancer and the dancer shows up, the venue must pay, whether or not the venue has sufficient customers to cover their costs. If there is no "call in policy" and the ( Read more... )