Middle Eastern Dance show that I went to Saturday Night!

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It was great! Fusion and purests were there, young and old. I thought latin dance plus middle eastern was great and so was modern dance and middle eastern dance. There was a dancer who danced with a stiff metalic vail. That was cool, it was like butterfly wings. There were students 1st, 2nd, 3rd year as well as instructors and professionals plus people who have been doing ME on and off for 10 years. I loved all the outfits. But the ones with many hanging beads, light blue satin and the group dance with different colors of velvet were incredible. The neon fishnet body suits were different. It went with the really strange music for the dance they did. Every 2xs a year that they do it, it's different. One year there were a lot of metal coins for costumes, this year, I didn't see any. Sometimes their are a lot of harem pants. This year, there were some. Every year, the cane dance is choreographed differently. One year they danced with candles. One year single sword and then next time was double sword dance. This year, not candles or swords. Lots of veil work this time. One time, backlit and in shadow behind a veil for the entire dance. That was really something. The person was so thin, she wore a cat suit. She's a professional dancer and the moves were incredible. Extreme extensions and lots of contortionist stuff. No back lits this year, but I really did like that. Have you ever been to a Middle Eastern Dance performance? Have you seen any anywhere else like video or tv? What are some of your favorite things about it? Mine are that everyone is different, different body types, different ways of interpreting even the same music, veil work I love, seeing moves I haven't seem before, the things they wear, in other words, just about everything! I love to go year after year to see people go from stiff, nervous, and sometimes awkward to incredible dancers. I watched one girl go from just learning to becoming a professional dancer.