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marylittlegothWell, I'm grubby and exhausted but very happy. Katie and I have just returned from a weekend away with the Tribe of Kismet, our bellydance tribe dancing at the Artemis Gathering in Oxford. I'll try and remember to post some photos, it was a very cool weekend.
We camped with the Tribe in a field with the other attendees etc. The people running it had made us very welcome and gave us staff wrist bands meaning we got money off food and drink. However, having been booked for two slots we got a bit of a surprise when looking at the itinerary. We were on on Sunday as expected, but on Saturday we were on at the same time in the same place as the Dolmen, the headlining band of the bands playing the weekend (there was lots else going on). It turns out that they had taken Sarah's comment, "we dance to music like Dolmen" at face value and booked us in to the agenda dancing with the band. We were rather surprised, but very happy, dancing to live music is always great and several members of the Tribe are quite big Dolmen fans (Deana went all bouncy!). However, it did mean that we were suddenly dancing to much longer than the usual somewhere around 20 minute set!
It was totally insane, but completely brilliant, Tribal-ed up to the nines as usual we danced to the side of the band in the "stage" marquee, then we danced in among the band, and with the band, and back again. A few people dropped out for breaks and then dropped in again. Thank gods Tribal style is totally improvised from a set moves repertoire. We danced for almost 2 hours, and Dolmen play fast! Both me and Katie ended up leading the chorus and dancing out front at a couple of points, the first time we'd ever done it, but by the time that we were at that point we were all having so much fun, and so were the band, that we didn't have a chance to worry that we were dancing to a huge crowd.
We were exhausted afterwards, absolutely exhausted. Still we all made it to see the fire performance and the burning of the Goddess at the mound. Afterwards a few people were totally worn out including Katie and Christine (we managed to lose Katie - ooops!) but suitably fortified with snacks and hot drinks we managed to get changed (poor Lance one of the girls boyfriends spent about half an hour hiding his face from girls changing) and to all make it into Christine's tent for wine and birthday cake.
Sunday performance was much more organised and a lot quieter and to pur normal music and everything went off pretty well.
I am now officially knackered!!!
We camped with the Tribe in a field with the other attendees etc. The people running it had made us very welcome and gave us staff wrist bands meaning we got money off food and drink. However, having been booked for two slots we got a bit of a surprise when looking at the itinerary. We were on on Sunday as expected, but on Saturday we were on at the same time in the same place as the Dolmen, the headlining band of the bands playing the weekend (there was lots else going on). It turns out that they had taken Sarah's comment, "we dance to music like Dolmen" at face value and booked us in to the agenda dancing with the band. We were rather surprised, but very happy, dancing to live music is always great and several members of the Tribe are quite big Dolmen fans (Deana went all bouncy!). However, it did mean that we were suddenly dancing to much longer than the usual somewhere around 20 minute set!
It was totally insane, but completely brilliant, Tribal-ed up to the nines as usual we danced to the side of the band in the "stage" marquee, then we danced in among the band, and with the band, and back again. A few people dropped out for breaks and then dropped in again. Thank gods Tribal style is totally improvised from a set moves repertoire. We danced for almost 2 hours, and Dolmen play fast! Both me and Katie ended up leading the chorus and dancing out front at a couple of points, the first time we'd ever done it, but by the time that we were at that point we were all having so much fun, and so were the band, that we didn't have a chance to worry that we were dancing to a huge crowd.
We were exhausted afterwards, absolutely exhausted. Still we all made it to see the fire performance and the burning of the Goddess at the mound. Afterwards a few people were totally worn out including Katie and Christine (we managed to lose Katie - ooops!) but suitably fortified with snacks and hot drinks we managed to get changed (poor Lance one of the girls boyfriends spent about half an hour hiding his face from girls changing) and to all make it into Christine's tent for wine and birthday cake.
Sunday performance was much more organised and a lot quieter and to pur normal music and everything went off pretty well.
I am now officially knackered!!!
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Date: 2008-08-11 05:07 pm (UTC)Dolmen are very cool band - they were at Mercian Gathering last year and can see why you are knackered.