An Evening of Middle Eastern Dance at El Camino College Center for the Arts

Back on October 24th we (She'enedra) did a performance at El Camino College. I'm still waiting for the video and professional pictures, that I hope to post; but in the meantime here are some casual shots of us in the dressing room.

We wore sparkly costumes for Le Criminal a French rap song with choreography by Ayse. And we wore lots of purple fluff & ruffles for Start Wearing Purple (by Gogol Bordello) with choreography by me. We were invited to participate by our friend DeVilla and Karin Jensen who is the director of Mandala Dance Works and an excellent choreographer. Also in the show were Sashi and Raine, Celeste, Rahana, Bella Oasis, of course Mandala Danceworks, and Devilla.
She'enedra is mostly Heidi, Tonantzin & myself now, but Tonantzin wasn't able to do this show which was sad. But the good news was! Ayse decided to rejoin us and of course she is always welcome and cherished! After this we did TFF and we included Khani & Gigi too! I'll post some pictures if I find some, in a later blog!
We really enjoyed seeing old friends, and meeting some new ones. The weirdest thing happened though. There were two dressing rooms, we were sent to the back one and while the girls from Mandala (who were in the front dressing room) were off doing a photo shoot someone snuck in their dressing room and took cash out of several of the dancer's purses. One had just been paid and had $200 stolen! It was horrible and the police came and we all got very protective about our stuff and took turns watching the show from the green room window and playing security for each other.
The show was wonderful though and we all had a good time regardless of the one incident.

Oh yeah, here is a picture I got of us from Facebook in our Purple costumes...uh and yeah I'm the shorty!

Me, Ayse, Sashi, Raine, Heidi
Heidi, Me, Ayse (who is unfairly wearing hi heeled boots and she's 5'8" to start with!)