State Fair, 10/16/11

This has been the best performance at the State Fair ever!!!!  I love my students they were fantastic!!!  Kudos to the Tilzers (Kay, Pamela and Stacey) best performance of Ali you have ever done!!!

Today's performance was so much fun!  There were 14 of us this year with several newbies performing at the State Fair for the very first time.  Everyone looked beautiful in their costumes!

The stage was not the best with the usual dips and this year they did not tape the seams so there were nice gaps of a 1/2" throughout the stage.  Everyone navigated it very well and thank goodness they swept the stage for us before we went on.  The sound guy this year rocked!

The audience was small when we started since we started when the fair opened and it grew midway through to the end; and they were a great audience, clapping, smiling and enjoying themselves.

Below are photos from today with behind the scenes shots :-)

Group shot before we performed

Laurette and Kay

The Line-up :-)

Melissa with Lisa in the background

Rachel and Kelley

Debbie, Elizabeth, Pamela & Stacey

The rest of the photos are action shots during our performance.  I was behind everyone on stage so some are a little dark and of course the back of everyone.

Kay, Pamela & Stacey

Kay, Pamela & Stacey during Ali

Dawn

Debbie

Elizabeth

Lisa

Lisa & Melissa

Melissa & Kay

Pamela

Pamela & Kay

Stacey

Our next performance is the Chandler Light Parade Dec. 3rd.

MAC Class Recital, 10/11/11

What a fun evening!!!  It was standing room only at tonight's recital.  The audience was fantastic, students you looked amazing and your performances were awesome and guest dancers thanks so much for sharing your dances with us; you rocked the house!

Most of the photos I took were blurred and just didn't turn out.  I had the backs of lots of dancers; not good.  I really need to get a new camera that has faster speed to catch the action.

Below are some photos from the evening and a short video of all the class routines.

Group Shot

Michele & Melissa

Rosario & Jody

Rosario

Stacey

Kelley & Fay

Fay

Class video

Intermediate Tribal Sword Dance

Next session starts Oct. 25th, 26, & 27th and next recital is Dec. 14th.

MAC Class Recital, 7/13/11

What a fantastic evening!!!!  I tried something new for this class recital having soloists and groups perform between the class routines and it worked!!!  One of my students suggested this and I'm so glad they did.  We will be having recitals in this format from now on.

Students you were awesome performing your dances; you all looked beautiful.  There were several of us competing at Wiggles of the West in Las Vegas and we performed our solos for the competition.  Yes I even performed which normally I don't :-) 

Below are photos and a short video from the evening.  Thank you Clara for taking photos throughout the evening.

Group Shot

Basket Dance, beginning Wednesday night

Indian Fusion, Beginning Tribal Thursday Night

Lest Sexy, intermediate tribal Wednesday night

Skirt dance, beginning tribal Wednesday night

more skirt dance

Sword dance, intermediate cabaret Tuesday night

Veil dance, beginning Tuesday night

Debbie

Rukshana

Lisa

Paula

Lisa

Stephanie & Lisa

Classes start August 2nd for a short 4 week session and the fall session starts August 30th.  See you in class...

Side note: I won Headliner of the Year 2011 at Wiggles of the West.  I also took 3rd place in the Alternative category!

Fully Fusion IV, 7/9/11

It was a very hot & sticky night last night ending in a storm just as we finished our last performance at Fully Fusion IV. 

We arrived at the theater around 6:30 and it was cooler outside than in any of the buildings.  The theater was very small so the performers had to stay outside and stay cool the best we could waiting to go on.  The show started at 7:30 and my students and I performed 3 numbers throughout the evening.  The majority of dancers after their performance took off since it was miserable outside and no place to sit.

Our first number was a Tribal Asian Fusion Thai Nail routine with 6 of us, than Rachel, Melissa, Lisa and Debbie performed a cane dance to Candyman and 8 of us ended the evening with a gypsy song "Lest Sexy" by Shantel.

Just as we were waiting to go on for our last number the dust storm hit; we performed and headed for our cars and left.  On the way home we had rain in Phoenix and the best lightening show I've seen in awhile.  No rain in Mesa at least on the drive home :-(

Below are photos from the evening mainly of us goofing around waiting to perform.

group shot when we arrived

Kay

Stacey & Lisa

Melissa

Pamela

Pamela, Stacey & Kay

Me & Kay

Lisa & I

Lisa & Rachel

Lisa & Rachel

Lisa, Rachel & Debbie

Stephanie & Lisa



Stephanie and Lisa were the very first performers of the evening and I snapped a photo after their performance as they were leaving.

Next event is our class recital on 7/13/11.