limconny's blog

Yes, the new class is on this Tuesday ,15th of September, 8:40-9:40pm, l will conduct the class personally as l have new routines for all my belly dance classes lately, my students seems to enjoy the new routine much more than old one, some advance and intermediate class students even told me they want to learn from beginner again just because the new routines are interesting, ha ha, they are crazy la.....

Welcome to a trial if you are not sure to register, or, there is a FREE workshop on this Sunday, 3-5pm at Zero, the workshop is for those without experience in belly dancing, l will do a lot of sharing and demonstration in this workshop, come join us if you are still hesitating to belly dancing, this is the best way to explore since it is FREE for you,

Registration in advance is requested to secure your place, we are almost occupied actually, please act now and please help to spread the news around.

 See you....

It is such difficult to say goodbye to Nath each time, he is truly my inspiration, how l wish if l do not have to say goodbye to him one day so that l could stay with inspiration all the times......but this is life, people come and go, we have to learn to accept the separation, and looking forward to meet again.....

And this time, l was not saying goodbye with Nath only, but also three of his lovely cousins......

Nath presented a great performance in hafla Inspiration, to me, his performance has touched my heart deeper than last year, he is richer in expression and more emotional, when l watched his performance last year, l thought this is already the best he could do, l have never expected his performance to touch my heart again, but he did ! I could only say, the God has given too much to him.....and hence l believe, he will not stop inspiring me as long as he is Nath.

I have also seen his self improvement, you know, this guy is too artistic sometimes, oh no, l should say, most of the times, but this time, l started to see a little bit of the word 'organizing' on him, hmm...l am looking forward to see a little bit more Nath, l believe nobody could resist a dancer and teacher like him if, if he is much organized, if he does, he is not only my inspiration, but my HERO!

And sometimes, this present inspiration and future Hero of mine is also----a Monkey, ;-(......

8:30pm - Opening Dance 'Shaking the time' by Zero Dancers

8:35pm - Solo Darbuka by Conny

8:40pm - MC

8:50PM - 'Shee Sha Shoo' [full version] by Zero's kids dancers

9:00pm - 'Shaabi' by Zero Dancers

9:05pm - Ice solo

9:10pm - 'Aswan Dancers' by Grace, Jojo and Li Chin

9:15pm - 'When he was a boy' by Ian

9:20pm - VIP performer Nath Keo

9:30pm - Intermission

9:40pm - 'Opaque' by Siew Ann, Shee Loo, Janice and Zoe

9:45pm - 'Harem' by Ice troupe

9:50pm - Drum Solo by Zero Dancers

9:55pm - 'Ana Fil Houb' by Conny

10:00pm - Certificate Presentation

10:15pm - Hip Hop by Danzity

10:20pm - Best Costume presentation

10:30pm - Vip performer Nath Keo

10:50pm - Free Dance & Goodbye

As you see, besides belly dancing, there is hip hop performance by Danzity [Sean's troupe] as well, in fact, l have invited more to perform but they cannot make it this time, anyway, this is what l am going to do in future, instead of belly dance show, l will slowly convert our hafla to 'a dance show', bravo to dance! Thus, we are not only doing belly dancing this time, you will see a lot of fusion belly dancing, it is a night of crazy and a lot of FUN..... this is what l am planning to do.

In fact the response is not good this year, guess people scare of H1N1, don't worry, we will check temparature of every participant before entering the ballroom, hope to get cooperation from all since it takes only one second to check the temparature. Though, there will be more than 300 people still, we will make sure everybody is safe there.

Please remember to take dinner before coming, no food is served this time. Many students of mine have not purchased tickets yet, sigh....my dear students, if you don't support teacher Conny, who is goiing to support me ah?

See you there!

l did two performances in Yallah's hafla last year, drum solo and Oriental dance, unfortunately, l was not good last year, l was too rough for drum solo and too rush for the Oriental Dance, it was regretful to me.....

Thus, this year, l will do another two different drum solo and Oriental fusion, l want to challenge myself , l have practised hard for belly dancing and l should see my own improvement. This year, l will do a solo darbuka which is more modernize, and Oriental fusion 'Ana Fil Houb' sang by Lili Boniche, l love this music very much, it is originally a Spanish song 'Historia de un Amor'. Ana is in Arabic version, l choreographed this dance in Chinese version 'Wo De Xin Li Mei You Ta' before l started belly dancing, but the Arabic version is even more touching my heart.....l will dance with a chair this time. I think, after hundred times of trying and searching for my own style and attitude, l slowly found my own way. Instead of solely belly dancing, l prefer 'dramatic dance' from now, l want to tell story through dancing. When we are happy, we dance, when we are sad, we dance, when we are together, we dance, when we are apart, we dance.......they are all stories......

Come watch me and l hope you like the dances, if not, do let me know as all comments are welcome.

Eventually, l have started teaching my first tribal class. It was indeed a struggle for me, l have to admit that l am not professional in tribal yet, l did take many lessons from the pro but l personally found it not enough, or l should say, may be it is enough for me to perform but not enough to teach as good as my Oriental belly dance class.

I have to start now as l know my advance class students are looking forward to this from long time ago. I myself love tribal style very much due to my cultural dance and yoga experience. I remember when l performed a tribal fusion in Singapore two years ago, people came to me and asked me to start teaching classes there, l was shock. I don't think they were just being amazed by my tribal dance performance, but the whole choreography which l have included other dance form. I know l have more to learn in order to teach. After two years, l dare not say l am good in tribal now but l would love to kick start my tribal class with my students, l believe my students have confidence with me :-) Hey l have confidence with myself too, l know once l start, l will do the best to be at least a 'semi - pro' who is qualified to teach hee hee..... 

Tribal dance is spiritual and artistic in my own interpretation to this style, and l truly in love with it. To me, tribal dance is beautiful in its spirit, it is not only how you move, but how you express yourself and your own attitude through the fundamental movements of belly dancing in tribal style.

In the future, l will add my Chinese dance knowledge especially from the minority dance to tribal dance, l found them very similar in their spirit. But before that, l will combine my peacock dance from China's Dai minority to Oriental Dance as the opening dance for Malaysia 3rd World Belly Dance Day on 8th May 2010, l need many pretty mermaids with me for the dance. I have found the music and my peacock costume, l am excited to do the choreography and hope l am able to show the harmony in dance once again.

I am very lucky, when l was in Japan and China, my friends brought me to those local delicious food, l really enjoy food very much in these two countries. In fact, both are not my first trip there, but l enjoyed food the most this time.

This is the most delicious sushi l ever tasted, it is in an underground restaurant, if without my friend who stays in Japan, l don't think l could find this place.

 Ice sake in cold weather, cool.....

 'Take away' lunch, you could get this at the roadside.

 The pork soup noodles, a bit too salty.

  Close to the chef, typical Japanese style.

 Korean BBQ in Japan.

 hard to choose, and wa-lau-e, expensive la!

 Abundant right? But this one has no difference with Penang's Japanese food.

 Huge!

 The most expensive potato l have eaten, RM40! Guess what? We have seen the wrong price la, sigh....heart attack when we paid. Though, it taste really good, but RM40.....My God! (I show 'one' in picture, 1000 yen la)

 Banana chocolate, l dare not try, l know it is very sweet.

 I enjoyed this lunch very much, it was cooked by an old man, home made one, the place is very small but food is- 'wow'.

 These are for beer.

 Sakura tea and Japanese sake.

 Green tea, the glass is manu for sushi.

  This restaurant opens till very late, it was 11:30pm when l stepped in to the place, but there were many people still and look like they have just came out from their office. This type of restaurants are mainly for food only, you have to leave the place once you have finished eating, you are not allowed to stay for long as the seats are limited.

 My idol.....

 Their traditional dessert - 'he guo zi'in sakura shape, l did not try this, too expensive la.

 I love this very much, this is called 'Ji Ka Mian', means hand made, l love to 'play' the noodles, dip into the soup and eat it immediately, very fun!

After l finished teaching intermediate 2 to my Monday class today, l showed them the whole routine again to ensure they undertstand what l have taught. After the class, some studens came to tell me they like what l did for them, and some told me l dance very 'clean', my moves are clear enough to deliver the message to them.

A-ha, 'clean', l like the word. I remember some dancers told me this too when l was in Egypt the first time, they told me my moves are clean and they have given me a great encouragement, as l was still new in belly dancing that time.

'Clean' in dance means precise, pure and skillful - my own interpretation la. I always share with my students two key words of dance especially in belly dancing - Relaxation and Concentration, this is my secret to drill my clean movements. If a person is tension and having too much interruption, l think she is not able to show a clean dance. And l have to thank my experience in Chinese Cultural Dance actually, l was trainned to be clean in dance from there, l heard people told me l am clean in dance too when l was in China practising my Cultural Dance. Nothing is easy you see, it is from my years dance experience. But when l watched my old videos of performance, l feel shame, l was not able to dance well that time, l was dirty :-( I believe l am cleaner now but l know l could be more cleaner. Only practising that make sense l know.

I wish l am not practising 'clean' in dance only, l hope my life is clean as well, how nice if the world is without polution as well as mankind's mind?

I hope l have more time for this bliog, but really tight up with my classes and rehearsals recently. There are many things l want to share here especially my Japan and China trip, but let me show you the stunning performances of Malaysia 2nd World Belly Dance Day first......

When l came back from China, my workout students laughed at my size, ha! This happens everytime after my trip la, but today, they told me l have lost a lot of weight in short time, ha! This happens often too, gain and lose, lose and gain again, arhhh....l don't really care too much, as long as l am not overweight, my previous experience and present routine in fitness and dance will help me to maintain my shape, l know.

One of the reasons that helping me to lose weight in short time is this : the upcoming hafla on 5th September.

This year, the theme is 'Inspiration', why? Because Nath is back!

Nath Keo from Canada was here last November and he inspired the audience with his amazing performance, l would say, he is one of the best belly dancers in the world, most of all, he is a very nice, generous and passionate guy, if not, l will not invite him again. This time, we charge only RM30 for the ticket, and if you purchase by 5th August, it is only RM25. Zero has many events every year, l do not want to burden my students and the audience too, thus, besides the World Belly Dance Day which we have to raise fund for charity, l hope l am afford to charge less for the haflas so that all my students could afford to participate, well, the response is not so good yet, as usual, wait till last minute la.

Nath Keo is the highlight performer of the night, if you have not watched a fantastic male belly dancers before, come join us. As for the program, Zero Dancers will perform a fusion belly dancing for the opening dance, something striking this time, and Conny will do a stylish solo Darbuka and an Oriental fusion Dance in Everlasting love story, something very different too this time. Besides, there are performances from my advance students, and performances by belly dancers from other states.

Don't miss the last hafla of Zero in 2009!