Kae is an incredibly beautiful and poised dancer, and as a member of FCBD she often pulls my eye when she performs–it’s always so hard to choose which incredible dancer to watch when watching FC, right. Well in this piece … Read More
“Vintage” is of course relative. But here’s FatChance Bellydance on Halloween of 2001 at Amira in San Francisco. Loaded in February of this year, clearly the tribal community hasn’t found it and hit it hard yet, as of my penning … Read More
I remember being completely mesmerized by this piece by Devyani and FCBD, where they took the traditional puja and set it to “Maya’s Theme” from Kama Sutra the movie and put it on stage. The changes they made suit the … Read More
An inspiring piece of work by students from the FatChance studio, performed at Rakassah just last week. Enjoy and be motivated to be just as graceful, joyful, and connected!
During a decompression meal after my FCBD ATS® Teacher Training intensive down in San Francisco in 2008, Sooz, Carla, Carrie, Quinn, and I were at a restaurant where they had paper on all the tables which you could jot on … Read More
One of my favorite videos of FC of all time, largely due to Wendy and Sandi’s gorgeous duet to a flamenco guitar. The way they flow through the moves is incomparable. Remember that blog post about impulses from last year? … Read More
I am loving that Habibi has been digitizing their articles and putting them in an online archive. THANK YOU! Here is snippets from a gem from 1999, a history of American Tribal Style written by Kajira Djoumahna of BlackSheep Bellydance: … Read More
In my recent wanderings around the ATS dancer blogosphere, I came across the Pink Coin Belt Chronicles, which is a blog written by Yuska, a male *gasp*ATS dancer at FCBD studios. More than that, he just became the newest member … Read More
…and other wonderful tidbits in Part 1 of 2 interviews with Carolena and Megha by a couple of gals in Florida, Mary and Tammy. I love especially the discussion of preparing students for performance starting at around 25 minutes. http://www.yippodcast.com/2009/07/episode-11a-fatchance-interview-pt-1.html … Read More
This is a 1997 video of Carolena talking about what ATS is and isn’t, and specifically some of her theories about the evolution of dance, motivation of feminine display and beauty, and more. It’s very brief, but enjoyable. My favorite … Read More