Belly Dance Coalition
28 March 2010 - 3-5 pm Sunday in Parkville, Missouri
See (at the bottom of this page)
Video extracts from this show and a short doc promoting Raqsi at KCTV5
Olé Flamenco - Tamara Carson in front, Cindy Bleck on the left, Fabiola from Cafe Cedar,
Ronnie Hurd (sitting) one of Soundz of Africa youth dancers and Keith Myers (KC Star photographer)
Two shots stitched together (in the middle) to make this close shot wider still
Nikoria - Nicole English with tambourine
Soundz of Africa
http://www.TraditionalMusicSociety.org
Soundz of Africa - Bird Fleming, Xavier Fleming and Elisha
Israel
Soundz of Africa - Vanessa Gibbs in front, Andrea Williams
(right) and Bird Fleming on drums, left
Indian singer Raja Govindarajan setting up his harmonium. Raja
came in late, too late for setup and sound tests before the show because of
an accident.
As Raja started out for the show he fell, sending his harmonium down a set
of stairs.
It broke, tearing out a hinge and perhaps worse. He could have called it off
but he came, and sang for us anyway,
with Cynthia Fung literally holding the harmonium together (above) as he played.
http://www.aavakai.com/band/taxonomy/term/95
Olé Flamenco
http://www.kcflamenco.com
Olé Flamenco - Darren Carpenter
Olé Flamenco :: Olguita Becali-Williams (left), Maria
Aranda, Marbel Mattsson, Darren Carpenter, Mary Ann Esperanza Hope
Olé Flamenco :: Olguita Becali-Williams (left, hat),
Marbel Mattsson, Tamara Carson (facing), Maria Aranda, Darren Carpenter, Cindy
Bleck
Nikoria - Nicole English (front), Jamie (behind, left)
Liz Dickinson
Troupe Duende: Calley (front), Kaleela (left), Amara (right),
Zoria (behind)
http://www.troupeduende.com
Etoile Abet- in a tribal fushion belly dance
Melody Gabrielle
Caty, student of Melody's
Daria (Fairydancer) http://fairydancer.tyshlek.com
Burcu - Turkish dancer with a veil number - Burcu has been doing a lot of
work with Alaturka (headed by Beau Bledsoe)
http://www.comebellydance.com
Dharma, with a tribal routine and with friends watching from directly behind
her (right).
Dharma does both tribal and cabaret styles. See: http://www.Shanti-Dance.com
Promoting the show - a Visit to Channel 5
This is a short doc to show our small trip the KCTV5 (Kansas City, channel 5) Saturday morning 27 March 2010. We were there to promote the Raqsi Awards and Cafe Cedar. This was the day before the third of four of these events in the Nikoria Dance Troup's Bellydance Coalition effort. The next day was the largest and best so far.
While we were still in the channel 5 studio I looked around expecting to see a full crew of camera operators but instead there was one producer who operated all of the cameras using pan/tilt/zoom remote controls from a little booth. So I showed the no-crew cams on the studio floor. The only other crew visible was the guy putting text into the teleprompters who also took time to help with microphones and other assorted things. There were three on-air people, the face of the station. It made me wonder when the on-air people will be replaced by animations. The studio cameras themselves were about ENG size buried in teleprompter and remote control gear.
In any case I also recorded the broadcast at home on a DVD recorder and added that footage into my in-studio footage in a small window to parallel what I was seeing and what viewers were seeing. When the station put their footage of our visit on the web they cut the dancing off after 15 seconds. You can see all of it here, what there was of it. I am the guy in the lower right corner. I am busy starting and stopping the music on the small boombox, which I tilt down to show at one point. I shot this on a Sony FX-1000, editing in Sony Vegas Pro 9.0. Never once did my FX1000 have studio-camera envy.
It was a lot of coordination and getting ready for a mere three minutes on camera. Kathy Hanis, the PR person who arranged this one also had another client who came on the same show just after us. They came with what looked like a ton of exhibits.
