It's rained a lot lately in Los Angeles. It's been lovely. I miss days when I got to wander around in it and make romantic moments...

American Ballet Theater Swan Lake

Random thought of the day: Gregory Hines was so fucking hot! (Not really that random, I'very had a crush on him since I was about 8...and even got to meet him once...but still)

Moira Shearer perfects her makeup on the set of The Red Shoes (1948)

I don't have extra money for anything, and yet I really can't stop thinking about this top...

"When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy."
~Katherine Jenkins

Took the Zumba class at the gym at lunch today for only the second time in my life. I for a second I thought I was gonna die. But, it burns something like 400 calories, so it's worth it.
I have to go every Tuesday. I don't think the ankle can go back to kickboxing for a while no matter how much I like it or try to take it easy.
 

365photochallenge - Day 9

 

Day 9 - The epic costume bra re-do is complete! TOTALLY complete. All the lining, finishing the edges, adding one more coin here and there. DONE. Could not be more happy/proud/relieved. On to the next costume piece! !

A recent study done by The Conversation has drawn the same conclusion that music lovers have known for years: Dancing with others is good for your health. People are drawn to music for many different reasons. Whether it be spiritual, emotional, physical, or cultural, music has been a part of the human experience for thousands of years. The innate desire to move to a beat is a quality that we are all born with. Seriously, even babies do it.
While dancing can be taught and practiced to perfection, every single human has a natural ability to synchronize to a beat. It is one of the building blocks of humanity that continues to evolve just as humans do. As The Conversation notes in their study, “it turns out that when you synchronise even a small movement, like the tapping of your finger in time with someone else, you feel closer and more trusting of that person than if you had tapped out of time.”
The rave community is well-versed in this simple scientific fact. People love good music and love a good show, but what really makes the EDM genre truly powerful is the community that accepts everyone and anyone. When you dance with others, whether it be moving to the same beat or dancing in synchronicity, the individual merges into a collective whole. “When we watch someone else do the same thing at the same time as us, our brain ends up with a merged sense of us and them. It feels like we ‘become one,” the study concludes.
The Conversation took things one step further to test additional benefits of dancing in synchronicity with others. The study took place in Brazil, where 264 young people participated in various dancing activities that were synchronized versus non synchronized and high-exertion versus low-exertion. The study measured pain tolerance and feelings of closeness before, during, and after the dancing activities.

“Not surprisingly, those who did full-bodied exertive dancing had higher pain thresholds compared to those…in the low-exertion groups….we also found that synchronisation led to higher pain thresholds, even if the synchronised movements were not exertive. So long as people saw that others were doing the same movement at the same time, their pain thresholds went up.”

So basically, dancing in any synchronization with others increases your pain tolerance and helps you to connect with others. Music literally is group therapy – a concept that EDM champions Above & Beyond is quite familiar with. Moral of the story? Tap into those primal desires and dance!

It’s good for you.

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Heavy Metal Tribal

photo by Angela Wood

Plans for the evening...

Posting so I remember to bookmark THIS page on my home computer

Victoria Gubka tabla

I think I forgot to share this in this space.
This is INSANE!!!

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I am going to learn how to do this! I love the energy of this piece.  

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Rachel Brice Interview for Belly Dance China

 I love that this is called "Rachel Brice USA 1". HAHAHA!

Really love all the old pictures of her as a kid and early in her belly dancing life.

BOISTER'S INTOLERANCE: Music for Erotic Dance by Ruth St. Denis

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The Parlour Trick: "Half Sick of Shadows" (Starring Rachel Brice)

“While I dance I can not judge, I can not hate, I can not separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance” - Hans Bos