Settling in for a fairly quiet week being as my Sunday class had to finish early because of maintenance to the hall and my Monday class finishes this Monday for Easter. I weakened and said I'd carry on with the Monday class mainly because the improvers group are doing really well and are the kind of group I really like (i.e. there are people in there who can dance and are bothered about it- so  I'm starting to enjoy them as I really enjoy my Sunday class). I could do with another improvers class somewhere- the thought of more beginners in September is slightly depressing. Perhaps I could do with working with someone who teaches the beginners-does all the intial hard slog and then I'll sail in and do the actual dancing bit-*big grin*-not serious really.

I have found a performance piece for later on in the year-not suitable for a lot of things I'm doing but may be good for Raqs B,PE and JOY-not sure about PE it might be a bit slow for there. its to be done in the real old fashioned classical style with slightly Randa influenced modern overtones a sort of me meets Samia Gamal meets Randa after bumping in to a young Aida Nour. I'm going to wear my lovely(I hope its lovely when it finally arrives) Pharaonics costume. its Entel Hob by Mohamed Abdul Waheb. Its so un me as to be quite controversial. I feel quite inspired to try something different-when i was bigger I always felt like Dawn French doing the ballet comedy sketch if I attempted anything like that.

I think in contrast my other is going to be shaabi-I quite like the other version of El Enab done by someone else whose name I've forgotten its not quite so manic. Theres quite a good beledi going into a drum solo on Very cairo 3 but not sure about the instrumentation of it and I think its another version of one Maria is dancing to a lot -so thats no good the UK circuit being fairly small. Have to keep trawling the CD collection.I've got so many CDs I keep rediscovering things.

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