A fabulous performance picture can do wonders for a belly dancer's career. Put it on a business card, or add it to your web site, to get more high quality bookings or new students. Add it to social media, and get invites to top class events. Even though its just a moment in time, it shows off your dancing, performing and entertainment abilities.... or does it? Just like every entertainer, we excel at the art of illusion. We ask the viewer to see what we want them to see....Only we know the diamonds are paste..... our shimmies are not an expression of our emotions, so much as a reflection of the hours we drilled them infront of the mirror... And our photo was not actually caught mid performance... For years I wanted an amazing on-stage, performance picture. Yet all I got was photos like the one above on the left. I look like a six eyed monster trying to lasso the audience. Then I found out the secret - those performance photos of the stars.... all is not what it seems. Because I am all about sharing the good news, here are four ways to get a fabulous performance photo ! (clue - they are all cheats!)
Tiny Tips:
My dear friends Dawn Devine and Alisha Westerfeld are starting to build a reputation for sneaking a selfie onto the stage. This performance was a comedy number at a light-hearted event. It was the perfect punchline for this occasion. Usually, selfies are not a suitable way to get get an on stage performance photo...... I hope you enjoyed a look behind the scenes of some of our performance photo shoots ! - feel free to add your own "Performance" photos to the comments and let us know how you got the shot !
If you like this blog, go back to the blog page, for others you might like including:
Holiday Music for Class Dealing with Difficult StudentsTeacher Knows Best Are you Ready Teach Belly Dance ? Or check out these Hub Blogs including: "Your First Belly Dance Workshop" The Top Ten Belly Dance Tunes for Performance" "Finding a Great Belly Dance Teacher"
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That Moment When...
1/4/2017
If you regularly read my blog, you will know I have a love/hate relationship with publishing my work. I would much rather dance infront of 1,000 people, or teach a room full of strangers than share my writing. I mean, you have read my novel, right? Oh no, only about 20 people have ever read my novel, because I'm terrified of sharing it !! (It has rude bits!) However, I do love writing. That feeling of loosing yourself for 5,6,7 hours as the words come tumbling out and the pages grow like knitting, forming themselves into ideas, concepts and dreams. Its addictive. For the last five years I have mostly written about belly dance, and so my two passions have collided. But the problem with writing all day, every day, is that at some point you have to share your words with the world. I am hugely blessed to have lots of great people in my life who can read and assess my writing. Poppy Maya (The Awesome Poppy Maya as she is known), is always ready to review the quality of my work. I can turn to Dawn Devine for resources, research and validation, plus she understands sentance structure and can turn my words from a C minus to an A plus. Alisha Westerfeld thinks in images, and helps bring my ideas to life, and I have a team of pro and not so pro editors who tidy up the chaos I produce.
Excuse me if I blush and hide for a couple of days. I'll just be here, at the computer, for the next five hours.... writing something that people might someday read !
If you like this blog, go back to my blog page and check out some others like:
I'm Perfect for Belly Dance (and so are you) Why Belly Dancers need to Walk the Line Teaching Belly Dance: Making Corrections Being Part of the Solution Or these Hubposts: "Your First Belly Dance Workshop" The Top Ten Belly Dance Tunes for Performance" "Finding a Great Belly Dance Teacher" |
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