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Pinhook Photos by Paul Cory

Posted on October 3, 2010 by admin

Professional Photographer, Paul Cory, photographed the August Pinhook Bellydance event and did an amazing job! Check out his website!

Paul Cory Website

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Carolina Casbah photos

Posted on September 21, 2010 by admin

Professional photos by Bonnie Stanley Photography from ‘Carolina Casbah’ show presented by ACCMED.

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RDC 8th Bithday Bash

Posted on September 21, 2010 by admin

Raleigh Drum Circle’s 8th Annual Birthday Bash. Middle Eastern Drumming by John Price, Andrew Shakinovsky, Mara Cohen, Aaron Kinzer. Bellydance by Amara and Jenny.

The Raleigh Drum Circle celebrates its birthday every September with a special Drum Circle full of performances featuring Middle Eastern Drumming, West African, Bellydancing, Fire spinning, hooping and more.It is always so much fun and I always feel honored to be invited back each year.

Jenny, Aaron, John, Andrew, Amara, Mara

Photo by Annelies Gentile

Debuted my new coin costume.

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Caba-ribal-usion weekend fun!

Posted on September 15, 2010 by admin

I had a fabulous weekend full of workshops and a great showcase featuring the wonderful Ansuya. We learned 4 choreographies and had 11 hours of instruction. I was exhausted!

Photo by Lisa Loque

Amara and Ansuya

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Decisions, decisions….

Posted on September 6, 2010 by admin

Alot of costume designing is trial and error. I take ALOT of photos while moving things around and then I go back and look at everything to see what I like the most. I sometimes leave it overnight to see how it looks in the morning. LOL. These pics don’t do it justice, but I kind of think these pearls might be too big, but I don’t feel like redoing all the chain I made. The pearls are Cream color Swarovski pearls, so they are the good stuff. The pics make them look crappy!

I painstaking drilled ALL the coins myself. (Andy taught me the other night) and then I made all the pearl dangles and connected them to the coins with jump rings. I sewed the ones down on the straps and decided to make more around the cups. Originally it was going to be a drape.

Pearl/Coin chain and coin dangles