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What Makes a Belly Dancer's Blood Boil?

Dec 28, 2001 - © Shira

making a unique costume, and six months after it made its debut someone else showed up at the next event wearing an exact copy.
  • After dancing in a show featuring many dancers, you left your costume in the dressing room while you watched the rest of the show. When you were ready to go home, you discovered that a mean little person, jealous of your bust size, had placed rat poison cyanide strips all over the inside of your costume bra.

    Don't these problems just rust your zills?

    Employers and Musicians

    Club owners, event sponsors, private party hosts, and musicians can be so infuriating at times! Maybe some of these things have happened to you?

    • The owner of the nightclub you work at tried to send you home without doing your show and without paying you because he had a small crowd that night.
    • You turned down a well-paying gig because you already had a prior commitment to dance elsewhere that same night. Then two hours before you were supposed to dance, the original employer called to cancel your appearance.
    • The mayor of your city canceled your troupe's appearance at a community festival because he believed belly dancing was something like stripping and he didn't want "that kind of thing" in his community.
    • When you showed up to dance at a private party, you discovered that the entire audience was drunk and obnoxious. The hostess had assured you at the time she hired you that alcohol was not going to be served at this event.
    • You thought you and the musicians had agreed on what music they would play for your show, but then they maliciously did something entirely different.
    • After your performance, an Arabic friend in the audience told you that the singer was making up his own lyrics in Arabic. At first, you didn't know why he thought this was a problem, but then your friend told you the translation was, "Look at this whore! Who wants to take her home?"

    It's enough to make you pick up your sword and lop off the head of the offender, isn't it?

    And Everyone Else, Too

    As if that weren't enough, you may find yourself seething at vendors and even your own family!

    • Your husband is insisting that he doesn't want you to get a job delivering bellygrams or dancing in a restaurant.
    • When you're gone to class or performances, your husband refuses to feed the children and put them to bed.
    • The costume maker that you
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