Sa'ada dancing about childbirth and personal transformation

Sa'ada's website: http://www.easternfelicity.com

This dance is the story of Sa'ada's personal transformation through relationship, marriage, and childbearing and childbirth. She homebirthed her two daughters, and this dance was the way she is able to express the deeply changing experience. It is a story of womanhood; about the experience of all women who have seen change in their lives and embraced it.

The music is a custom mix of Axiom of Choice's song "Valeh" (much thanks to John). Thank you to Katherine of "Silk Road Tribal" (http://www.silkroadtribal.com) for agreeing to video it on such short notice.

It is shot in black and white due to the low light of the dance hall, and has the sounds of the people and families there present. It was recorded at the Empire of Medieval Pursuits event "Hafla al Madeena" in October, 2008.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saada/131651920850

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• bellydance
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• emotional
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• pregnant
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[Mr111989]

@easternfelicity Thank you for uploading this. It was so amazing to watch this performance that was done with so much thought and creativity behind it.  A truly magical experience this is.

[bugwitch]

I absolutely loved this. So lovely and passionate!

[PassionPoet]

She dances so beautifully... I was delighted to drum for her later. =D