by AmartiaBellydance | Oct 17, 2018 | Tools and Tips
In this week’s post, the interviewee has chosen to remain anonymous. This person has graciously answered that same set of questions on both the Suhaila Salimpour school and the Belladonna certifications. If you’d like to recap the previous posts just click...
by AmartiaBellydance | Oct 10, 2018 | Tools and Tips
This week’s post is a deep dive into the 8 Elements program thanks to Flissy Om Chantress! She is a professional dancer in the Baltimore/DC area and a wonderful dance friend She has offered to answer a list of questions that I compiled about bellydance...
by AmartiaBellydance | Oct 3, 2018 | Tools and Tips
I truly had no idea that asking this question would get such a response! This topic is going to be cut up into a few blog posts because I feel that it needs to be covered completely. This first portion is going to be a more of an opinion piece. I wanted to know what...
by AmartiaBellydance | Sep 12, 2018 | Tools and Tips
I know that finger cymbals are not the most popular prop. There are some that fear that they are a lost art and are dying out. I hope not, because I love them. I will admit that it took me a bit to get confident with them. They are not quiet and if you make a mistake,...
by AmartiaBellydance | Sep 5, 2018 | Tools and Tips
In this day and age I feel as though we can’t get away from using SOME sort of tech in order to make our lives easier. I have found that some of the newer technology has really made it much simpler to get some of the things done bellydance-wise so I’ll be...
by AmartiaBellydance | Aug 1, 2018 | Tools and Tips
I started out dancing being afraid to use a cane. I’ve seen and heard the horror stories of hitting audience members, having the cane fly out of your hand and off to who knows where. Actually, that last one happened to me at a summer gig outside and it ended up...