I always love dancing at the Hafla in the Square. It’s a great environment with really truly wonderful people.

This month’s hafla was especially special for me. First and foremost, one of my bff’s, Julie aka Akasha, debuted (actually TREYbuted) as a solo dancer. She also soloed as an improvisational dancer (not easy to do on your first time out) and with a poi veil, none the less.

The hafla was very small this time, since the weekend also housed the Midwest Belly Dance competition. At 44 years old, I am just glad that everything still moves the way I intend it to, or at least for the most part, so I’m not into competing. I did a bit too much of that in my younger days and throughout my various careers. Anyway, the hafla audience consisted of the people dancing, 3 dancers who normally dance but were not dancing, miscellaneous spouses and companions. All people that I knew and felt really comfortable with.

I had been having a couple of sort of rough days after being on the receiving end of a tiff with a person I had thought was my good friend. I had also been working my butt off trying to put together the Labor Day show for Schaumburg Fest, as well as my Labor Day show for Mt. Prospect, and figuring out what I was dancing to at the Shimmy for the Cure in Elgin coming up this Sunday evening. So…I decided to just let my hair down a bit and have some fun. Which I did. And I’m even going to let you watch me having that fun.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed doing it. Sometimes, you just need to let off some steam by being yourself.

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