Oh man...last night was quite the ride.

Our first *real* show. We did very well. I think we even surprised ourselves, expecting at least one major mess up...but it didn't happen.

Recap: We were invited to the Spirit Room's fundraiser, primarily to cover during costume changes (and let me tell you...there were a lot of them). The Shimmy Sisters (the other group performing) does a couple different styles: Modern, Egyptian, gypsy. Either way, the costuming was somewhat on the "minimal" side...not a lot of glitz (except for one beledi dress). So after seeing seven numbers of this, we come out in full regalia...mirrored cholis, full skirts, scarves, tassel belts, lots of coins and cowries and jewelry.

I think we scared the audience. Hubby even said that Amy had that "Amazon" look, like she might hurt someone if they looked at her the wrong way. (It's not her fault she's so tall!)

We did our moving meditation in silence, then did a faster song. It was very ethnic sounding (very different from the stuff before), so the audience was rather surprised by the whole thing.

After they did three songs, we did our SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW song. Very cool...lots of hisses.

They did another song, and then we did our "capper"...a six minute faster song where we broke into duets and Kaarin spent time leading. People were clapping with the music and getting into it.

Afterwards we had SO many comments about how it *must* have been choreographed, how great we looked and danced, etc. One of the dancers from the other group said that her sister liked our dances better than theirs. I felt kind of bad for her, but so it goes.

I had someone inquire about classes for next semester. :-)

Anyway, the audience really seemed to get a kick out of us, after the initial shock. I hope the recital goes as well next week.

Opa! ;-)