Pirate Faire...arrrrr!!

The first sign of fall for me has become the Ojai Pirate Faire every year! It is a great experience for our dance troupe & students. This year we had an encampment again, which was managed by Ayse & Julie. And it was something else! So comfortable and beautiful!
We have this gorgeous Bedouin Tent that we raised money to buy as a group that we set up and behind we have dressing rooms & a kitchen and a place where many of the group pitched their regular tents.
Ayse planned out a kitchen schedule so that there everyone took turns preparing meals and wow! The food was great! Everyone pitched in with cleaning and maintaining, it was so amazing.



Our show was really fun, we had our friends Donavon & Vedat of the Anatolian Folk ensemble and my husband Robert, another drummer Ed, random other wonderful musicians, Daniel from Byzantium music, Daoud from Baba Ku and another old friend Steve Newman. It was lovely and a joy to dance to!



My students did a dance with baskets on their heads that were filled with chocolate coins, Nataraja danced improvisation, Ayse's students & Wild Routes danced, and also TWNN (troupe with No Name) did wonderfully creative formations and were very cute! Michaella did Heidi's solos. We all drank too much...Everyone was special!
Tonantzin, Ayse, Heidi & I made up She'enedra for the faire and we all soloed and did sword balancing and fights.




Even though the 2nd weekend of fair was miserably hot it was really fun! I'll post a bunch of pictures right now!