This weekend I'm headed down to Springfield Missouri, to teach a class at Red Moon Studios sixth annual Hips Noir (a dangerously classy bellydance workshop). I went last year as a student, and it was a really fantastic set up. One of the things that they do at Hips Noir that I really appreciate is to bring in more local teachers, rather than the more well known East and West Coasters. Project Vagabond does their best to showcase "local" talent, and so can keep the workshop smaller without losing the bucket, and put together a really excellent show at the end of the day. Because there does seem to be a bit of a stigma about the MidWest - you just don't see a lot of big names emerging from this area of the country...and not that there aren't any, quite a few dancers have popped out of Chicago and Denver, but in general, people give the stink eye to anyone coming out of the Great Plains - we are expected to be less good, which is really a shame because there are some excellent dancers and really excellent teachers out here and you are probably missing it.
But I diverge.
I'm leaving town this weekend. I'll be photographing all aspects of the trip - I'd like to do a little photo essay for this blog when it's over. Hopefully I'll get to see a little of my hosts choreography at their studio when I arrive Friday night. I'm also vending. Which means I'm taking the entirety of my etsy shop with me. Which means if there's something you like in there you had better get it now...
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