Bah! Surely there is someone you can hate on :shok: :lol:Just me, I am my own worst enemy.
My community lacks an ethnic population from the lands of dance. It's created a large hole in the "straight" belly dance community here. In my state it's almost exclusively ATS, fusion, and "I do my own thing." I don't mind the other spin off styles (labeled correctly of course), but regular belly dance is almost dead here, which I do think is a shame.
Bah! Surely there is someone you can hate on :shok: :lol:
I think one of our biggest local problems is the lack of a solid M.E. music band. If we had one, everybody would want to dance with them, and they would be a focal point for the community. Instead the local ME-ish bands play a lot of other kinds of music and seldom have events that feature dancers, and there's also the "drummer's girlfriend" problem, where the featured dancer is not exactly the best dancer in town.
(Sorry if I sound whiny!)
Yeah there is, the same usual narrow minded males and usually males in authority that seem to think I should not be belly dancing and how they must protect the ladies from the likes of me, for I just must be a pervert to be to be in a belly dance class. But I am trying to ignore this stuff as it is very damaging but it happened recently but thankfully I was not being observant but one of the ladies told me I was getting a somewhat differential look, the sort they thought I should know about, I just said yeah I am used to this in discrimination UK. The trouble is every time I perceive this stuff I do get negative about my dancing and question is it really worth it.