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Originally Posted by Suheir
Very interesting. Riverdance (remember Miles wanted to emulate it?) has managed to keep going for years with tweaks here and there but it is truly spectacular and I'd go and see it again at the drop of a hat. The second time I saw the BDSS, the sulky faces on some of those girls were unbelievable - you really think an audience wants to watch performers who'd clearly rather be somewhere else? I saw a TV documentary about behind-the-scenes at Riverdance and those performers are in *such* pain when they come off-stage that they stand in buckets of ice up to their thighs but you'd never guess for a second when they're actually performing.
I'm delighted that homegrown performers are now showing what they can really do and I hope that audiences are starting to realise that there's more to Oriental dance than tits'n'teeth.
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I understand the compeletly what you are saying but..
Having worked around the Bellydance superstars for the past three years, you would not be believe how ordinary they are.
I see them in their civvies before they get dressed and I see them at breakfast etc. and they dont swan around saying 'HEY Look I AM A SUPERSTAR!!'
They look like they get spots and cold sores like the rest of us. they dont look surgically enhanced, and if they are they were very careful about it.
They dont wear make up, wear glasses and trudge around in their old trackies. they look the opposite of what you imagine. They are young to 40's in age and Jillina is not size zero but a healthy womanly shape.
I think the title of Superstar and the stage image actually gives people the wrong impression about the real individuals whom participate in this show.
Perhaps it is the package people have the problem with?