Shems with Pangia at Spring Caravan 2008 - Belly Dance

This great video was made possible by this year's Spring Caravan videographer:
Rob of Candlelight Productions http://www.candlelight-productions.com
Who raised the bar for the audio track and overall video composition, and set the record for the longest-time-after-a-festival without a SINGLE COMPLAINT! Yay!

The wonderful band Pangia is Pat Olsen (on oud) and Denise (on keyboard), assisted on this occasion by Carmine and Brad, of the band Djinn, on Tabla. For more about Pangia and to buy their CDs visit their website:
http://www.pangiaraks.com/

To find out more about Camine and Brad's musical involvement you may visit their band Djinn's website:
http://www.djinnnyc.com/
and Carmine's personal website:
http://www.carmine.com/
and Brad's illustration website:
http://www.bradmack.com/

The music in this set included Fairuz's "Shatti Ya Dunia", a beautiful oud taksim by Pat Olsen, a great tabla solo by Carmine and the classic Farid el Atrache exit music "Tuta".

The event is Rakkasah's Spring Caravan, one a few grand events they host each year on both coasts:
http://www.rakkasah.com/spring/

Since I've giving everybody credit here:

The costume I'm wearing was created by Sim Moda Evi based on a drawing I sent them. They are more than a pleasure to deal with. I can't recommend them highly enough:
http://www.bellydancercostume.net/

The silk veil I made myself.

The sagat (which you can't really hear in this video, next time I'll play more loudly) were FatChanceBellyDance signature series zills in silver:
http://www.fcbd.com

And the dancer is me, Shems:
http://www.shemsdance.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Belly
• Dance
• Raq
• Sharqi
• Shems
• Pangia
• Spring
• Caravan
• Carmine
• Brad
• Pat
• Olsen
• Denise
• Fairouz
• Rahbani

[snakecharmer696]

Gorgeous! Are you coming to Spring Caravan again this year?

[shemsdance]

honestly, hadn't given it any thought. I'm all wrapped up in my next weeks art installation.

[RobertRaks]

Stunning! I Love how powerful and energetic your dance is, and yet elegant and smooth. I cannot WAIT to see you dance in June in Newark!

[RobertRaks]

Beautiful!

[AnaMariaMeldelen]

Beautiful performance, I enjoyed it very much!

[SelenaKareena]

Beautiful dancing~nice feel for the music, great veilwork.

[psychspirit]

That was very fabulous...nice veil btw. I loved the way you interacted with the drummer too. did he cover his eyes at some point? :) awesome performance.

[GothicGypsy29]

Beautiful!!

[tallfeather]

I'm sorry I couldn't stay nd see you perform live. You worked the stage missy.

[MariaAya]

Just beautiful, floating and very musical connected.

Maria Aya :)