[Artemisia] Because you can can can!

[Stephanae Baker]

Wow, now that sounds pretty! For myself, I had kind of pictured a  
pink and mint green Toulouse-Lautrec style dress with a Cleopatra wig  
and Egyptian eyes. Marche comme une egyptienne!

I'll see if I can drum up an appropriate cane or cane substitute for  
myself, although I think I'll skip the metallic foil ones. I'm  
actually not 100% sure I'll be able to attend, although I am going to  
try. Someone might want me to do a hair wrap or something. Just  
between you and me, being a merchant is nice when it pays for the  
event, but not so nice when the event has 100 classes on the list you  
want to attend.

Fans are FUN! You must try them. They're a little like veil in that  
they're pretty easy to bling the audience with at any level, but  
there are plenty of ways to make them more hard and interesting as  
you become a more advanced dancer. I did a fan dance when I was in  
Thia's troupe Wisteria that was pretty fun, but the really, truly fun  
one I did was with a private troupe, Nenephta. We had one great big  
fan and three sets of small fans, and well, you'd probably have to  
see it, but I promise it was very, very cool. As for Isis wings, EEK!  
Wisteria did a wing dance one year. I hated it. I think both Wisteria  
and Nenephta did cane dances, too, but it was after I left.

I've never tried Shamadan, either. I thought about that when I  
mentioned missing props, but I've actually always thought dancers  
looked just a bit funny with candelabras on their heads. But then,  
who am I to talk? I decided to put a plate with a turkey leg on it on  
my head last weekend at a ren faire, along with a plate of curly  
fries on each palm. That might just be as ridiculous as the Egyptian  
can can costume I envisioned.

Taja (Belladonna)


On May 24, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Reuben and Arwen wrote:

> How about a gold ensemble with green and red accents- I can be the  
> Egyptian mexi-corn can dancer!
>   I have 14 canes right now- eek!  I should be down to four by  
> Uprising, so I'll have two or three loner canes with me.  If we get  
> tons of people we'll just switch off.  Dahlal International has  
> modern metallic foil wrapped ones for $10 in gold or silver.  For  
> SCA/folk dance I like the natural uncovered bamboo or rattan.  Good  
> news is a thin (finger sized) piece of rattan about a yard long is  
> perfect.  Your cane doesn't have to have a hook at the end.  Hooked  
> canes are more for Baladi style and the straight ones are for  
> Saidi.  In a pinch a light piece of dowel will do for practice.   
> Don't try a medical cane, they are way to heavy, not to mention  
> look goofy as heck. ;)
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>   I am clueless about fan dance, never tried it.  No Isis wings or  
> shamadan either :(  More things to add to my to do list...
>
>   I'm getting rid of most of my harem style pants for mundane BD.   
> They make me look like a garden gnome.  I have one more pair to go  
> if anyone wants them for $5.  Esther
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>   I WAS sort of wondering if it was related to the can can.
> Will you have canes there to lend or do interested participants need
> to bring their own? I have a sword (albeit not the enormous,
> dangerous-looking, Zahirah style scimitar I wish I had), a couple
> sets of finger cymbals (they're even Zills), various sizes and shapes
> of fans, and a ton of veils. I even have two doumbeks I can hardly
> play. But I haven't a cane to my name. It's very tragic.
> Belladonna
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