[Dancenews] Alia's Sofa-Surfing Tour of Fame 2009

[Alia Thabit]

Hi Everyone!

I have finally embarked on my 2009
Sofa-Surfing Tour of Fame (woo-hoo!).

This
means I'll be dancing across the country and back again over the
next
few months. I will be in NYC until mid February, then
drive
South to Baltimore,  on into Florida, and along the southern
coast to
California. I'll go up the west coast to Oregon, and we'll drive
home
through the Midwest and Toronto, returning to VT by early May. 
William York
Hyde will be traveling with me, so it's going to be quite a
trip! Here's a
Google map
of the route.

My goal is to meet
people and have fun, so if you think of anyone I should
know (or anyone we can crash with), please hook us up. I would
love to
perform at haflas etc, and/or guest teach classes
and workshops.  I'll be
posting regular updates on my blog,
so you can travel vicariously along with us.

So
far, we've been in NYC since Christmas (helping my Mom
recover
from a knee replacement). The weather here has been
vile:
gray, snowy, windy,
and cold, but probably nowhere near as
vile as it is in VT, so I'm happy and thankful. 

In
the last few weeks, I've taken classes with Elena and Dunya (her
weeklong at Kripalu
starts 2/8), had lunch with Joe Williams,
attended a couple of concerts with Zikrayat, and
performed in the subway at Union Square and Penn Station to
benefit the homeless with Bastet Bellydance and Pacita Prasarn. We
had
so much fun - Jerry
Bezdikian came and threw money!

Kaeshi Chai invited
me to perform at Je'Bon with Djinn and guest violin player, Chern Hwei
(not to mention Karim
Nagi and Sami
Asmar). What an evening! I was tickled to get compliments
from Dalia, Jehan Kemal, Jeniviva, and
many
other folks. Jehan's husband Hanna St. John took some great photos
(one
is attached), and I wrote a FlynnSpace NASA
Grant to begin working on Medea in the spring
(cross your fingers for me).

Plus I just uploaded a
couple of new videos to YouTube, with more to
come: Raquy and the
Cavemen (yay!) and Bitwannes Beek. While you're there, check
out Dorit's cool Wonder
Woman video.

Lots of love!
Alia

PS:  Save the date!  June 11-15, Amity and I are hosting Tamalyn Dallal in
VT/NH. Are we good or what? 
Alia Thabit
Middle
Eastern Dance Artist
alia at earth-goddess.com;
http://www.earth-goddess.com
Vermont Arts Council Juried
Artist; NEST Roster Artist
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