tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67893942011-11-30T18:14:43.680-05:00The Blog on Belly Dance NYStella speaks. After nearly nine years I let you know what I think about just about everything. Especially what I think about matters concerning dance orientale or belly dancing or whatever name you prefer. Oh, and for those of you new to Blog reading, things are backwards--subjects may begin in previous entries and be continued in a newer entry placed above. I'll ultimately collect subjects and post them with correct continuityStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-71261767733852625982009-08-31T18:08:00.000-04:002009-08-31T18:08:04.960-04:00I just got back from the Museum of Modern Art aka MoMA where among other things I saw Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance, an exhibit of sets and costumes designed for the stage by a number of well known artists.  You can find more information about the exhibit, which closes on September 7th, at http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/864.  Right outside the entrance to the gallery Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-20043522171374004492009-08-31T14:13:00.000-04:002009-08-31T14:13:49.692-04:00Problem with invisible text solved by moving the Blog to Blog*Spot.  Just letting you know.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-22755489968948154762009-08-27T13:50:00.000-04:002009-08-27T13:50:39.889-04:00The Blog on Belly Dance NYThe Blog on Belly Dance NYHaving problems with the blog--it won't republish. So we're left with white, unreadable type. Sucks.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-44872188530399042532009-03-02T13:33:00.005-05:002010-03-28T14:48:41.521-04:00New Blog: Age of Iron Update to this post:  Life is a funny thing:  Stuff is always getting in the way of stuff, especially good intentions.  For the time being this is the Blog and Age of Iron is an ambitious work in progress that one of these days I'm going to really get after.  That will be one of these days after I've finish pulling up the carpet, raising kittens, raising various kinds of Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1110139055882178572005-03-06T14:56:00.000-05:002005-03-06T15:12:17.433-05:00This entry has been sitting on the virtual desktop gathering hyperdust while I've debated the merits of posting it. It's a harsh little essay and deliberately too broad. I've been cautioned by one informed reader that publishing it could lose me more good-will than the gratification I might get from howling in the dark would be worth. But the more I read my email the more I want to post it. Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1101598640631065422004-11-27T18:32:00.000-05:002006-03-02T12:38:33.606-05:00WE SEE THE SUPERSTARS Well, hasn't it been a long time since this Blog had anything new on it. The last entry seemed to have been well received, at least by those of you who spoke to me about it. There were some demurrers at the narrowness of my definitions of the dance, especially about the validity of group choreography but at least (I hope) I got you thinking This piece is being written onStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1093802103065373552004-08-29T13:54:00.001-04:002009-03-16T20:49:04.203-04:00What is the Oriental Dance? I just got off the phone with a friend who remarked à prós of recent goings-on that fusion seemed to be breaking out all over. I agreed adding, in absolutist mode, that except in the hands of a very few gifted dancers I couldn't see why it might be interesting and was certainly not necessary. She, feeling tolerant, answered better fusion than watching one boring Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1086413693161815222004-06-05T01:34:00.000-04:002004-06-05T09:14:32.873-04:00I.A.O. or Lucy Goosey in the Sky with Diamonds and Other Minor Mysteries So this morning I'm sitting at the hairdresser's at an unreasonably early hour. She leaves for Italy tomorrow. For my roots it's either today or another three weeks of getting more obvious. According to the dermatologist I was screwed over by Mother Nature who gave me the skin tones of a redhead and the hair color of aStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1085723550761803292004-05-28T01:50:00.000-04:002004-05-28T01:52:30.760-04:00A quick note--I've just changed the "Comments" protocol. I hope for the better. Unfortunately by doing so I lost your comments. Apologies and thanks to all of you who wrote in.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1085721243214435952004-05-28T01:12:00.000-04:002004-05-28T01:20:27.370-04:00All One Show Biz, Part Two (read Part One below) Note: This isn't really done but I'm putting it up now so no one thinks I've abandoned my self appointed and doubtlessly futile mission to rescue what's left of the dance from us. Promise you I'm going to be faster from here on out. When I first heard the Itzhak Perlman story I was so tickled that I waltzed up to some underemployed schnook in a Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1082761566990933582004-04-23T19:05:00.000-04:002004-05-28T01:14:57.593-04:00Doing a blog or blogging or whatever the unattractive word is for an interesting activity quickly becomes an obligation. I put up this thing announcing that I would soon vent about everything that had annoyed me into leaving the web--I'm sure you've all been checking eagerly waiting for the spew of invective that would surely pour out-- only to realize that writing is more difficult than Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1082181874733784802004-04-17T02:00:00.000-04:002004-04-17T02:08:34.966-04:00A later note--I'm attempting to add software enabling comments. If it doesn't happen now it will happen soon. You can always use the Forum to harangue me.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789394.post-1082176889064373832004-04-17T00:00:00.000-04:002004-04-17T01:19:31.450-04:00Hello out there. I've been going on and on about setting up a Blog on this website and have finally taken the plunge. Why a Blog on Belly Dance NY? Well, as most of you are aware, this website was on hiatus for a couple of months. I disappeared it in the dead of night on Groundhog Day leaving only a cryptic message embedded in a starscape. (This too will be explained but later.) I put it Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12745340340293652112noreply@blogger.com1