Cues and Tattoos 2012

I love this festival, I can't wait for next year already. :)

Seattle!

Cattle... hehehe... watch this vid for the joke. It's freaking hilarious.




ANYWAY... Seattle for reals...

THURSDAY:
Our flight took off from Denver and we landed in Seattle midday. Procured our room, dropped off luggage and headed out to grab snax and hit the amazing Banya 5. We hot tubbed, steamed and rinsed in stupid cold water for about an hour... I admit I let out a squeak when the cold water hit me, lol. We saw this pretty flower... (::edit:: I have been informed that this flower is an Azalea. In the Rhododendron family.)


Everything was so green... it made my heart ache. Come on Colorado! You can get there, no more of this fire business let's get some rain going. Anywhose... headed off to the University district where we did some shopping, specifically hitting Buddhaful where I found this awesome dress that I am currently kicking myself for not buying. doh. Stef got a verah cute hat.

We met Jennifer & Rosie down at Crab Pot for dinner snacks and they had the most amazing halibut and chips. nom!


Waiting for our table...


The Spread.


FRIDAY:
Nicole Arrived! We had a lazy morning then took off down to Pike Market via Monorail.


Stopped at the fluevog store and tried on some shoes!
Here's Stef...


And Nicole...


We were famished after all of the hard work of trying on shoes so we headed to Lowell's where Stef and Nicole flirted our way into a table. The horrible view from said table.


The Spread take two. Molly is unsure what to do with her nasty tomatoes...

So... the guy that they flirted with? Keep him in mind.

Stef all gussied up on the short bus to the Mohai to perform in the instructor show case.


Getting our zombie on... I missed the cue :(






So that cute guy? Oh look there he is at the after party with us. He likes soccer, he plays soccer, he treated Stef like a queen all weekend. I approve. There are plans in the making for him to come out to Denver and go skydiving, jeeping, soccer gaming it and zooing it. wOOt!


Molly has a moment with her Marzipan Piroshky.

SATURDAY:
We were in workshops All. Day. Long. Teaching one, then taking two. Teaching went quite well if I do say so myself. Troupe Hipnotica's workshop was a blast and then Gypsy Fire's was also fantastic. We got some awesome material from both. There really weren't any pictures unfortunately. A few goodies were bought, Nicole and I went back to the hotel and passed out, Stefanie hung out with cute Seattle guy at the after party, Molly and the gypsy fire girls hung out QUITE a bit. I swear all I heard on Sunday was "So I was talking to Quinn..." If I had a nickel... $5 bucks at least people, $5 bucks.

SUNDAY:
We had a 9AM workshop. It was a little rough getting up that early. But we did it, had another great group of girls, had a great response. Stef and I hung out and watched a few performances whilst Molly was in her Troupe Hipnotica workshop, did some more shopping. When Molly got done we said our good byes (since we didn't think we'd make it back later) and took off back down to pike for some lunch at (take a guess)... Lowell's! Cute Seattle boy and his co-worker procured us some amazing cocktails and fish. Afterward Molly wanted to go by Top Pot Dougnuts for coffee and well doughnuts... we're silly.


There was shenaniganry down the roadside...


Stefanie had never seen the muppets Manamana. We enlightened her and serenaded her that day with it.
There was a Daniel Tosh spree... whilst I was outside talking to Ryan for 45 minutes or so.

Hung out with cute Seattle boy and his coworker at the hotel later and then passed out. Fitfully in my case....

SUNDAY:
The fifull night of sleep was awful and henceforth required a baileys and coffee in the morning.
Flew back uneventfully and safely.

Fin. Can we do it again? Kthxbai. xo~

Cues & Tattoos 2011 Video!

Cues & Tattoos Prep Officially Starts Now

Music: songs selected, they just needs to be meshed into one long song
Costume: Pretty much done, just need to make one or two more pieces. Need to adjust zil elastics.
Plane Ticket: Bought!
My Workshops: To be bought by the end of Jan

If you have the chance to go to this festival do, it's excellently run and operated by the fabulous ladies of Troupe Hipnotica.
If you will be there then come take one or both of our workshops and come see the instructor showcase!
Sat Workshop link & Sun Workshop link.

This will be our 3rd year attending, I can't wait to see friends we haven't seen since last year and to meet even more lovely ladies and gents!

Upcoming...

Once we hit December there's no going back.

It's the time of year for planning, because the next the six months between December and May are going to be insanely busy and fun!

Here's the lineup:

First off we have TribalTique's 5th Holiday Hafla!
TribalTique Denver has many amazing performances we're working on for this fantastic yearly event. Come support us if you're in the Denver area!

Secondly we have a festival that is very near and dear to my heart.
A festival dedicated to the Improvisational style of tribal belly dance;
Cues and Tattoos!
Put together by the amazing ladies of Troupe Hipnotica.
TribalTique will be there teaching and performing in the instructor showcase.
Be there if you can, it's always an amazing time.
Registration is open!
March 25-27, 2011
Seattle, WA

Bringing it back to Colorado at the end of April/Beginning of May, Elevation will be happening again. We're told registration should be open any day now!

And last but never least will be TribalFest11 in Sebastopol, CA on May 18-22, 2011!
Workshop registration should be open November 1st!

TribalTique Denver's Cues and Tattoos Video!

It's Up! Enjoy!

Tribal Fest 10 Overview

This Tribal Fest was a fun amazing time as always. It was my 4th year attending; 2nd year performing with TribalTique.

I drove the 1300 mile drive out to California with my boyfriend Ryan. The TribalTique girls and I rented a house with a little cottage above the driveway this year. It was awesome! Ryan and I got to stay in the cottage and we ate at Howards cafe down the street just about every single morning... we had the sweetest waitress.

All of the workshops I took were great... I had to end up skipping a couple just because my brain and body couldn't take it. This year I ran myself pretty ragged between Cues & Tattoos, Elevation, Tribal Fest 10 and helping to open the new studio (Red Elephant Workshop). I'm not sure what to change for next year... but I'll try to play it a bit smarter.

Our performance went swimmingly well (still in the process of trying to get C&T and TF10 vids on youtube, they'll be posted here once that is accomplished). We all remembered the choreography/ me and Molly hit all of our improvisational bits we wanted to. I don't believe I tripped this time which was fantastic! LOL!

Overall, we definitely ate a ton of good food, bought some pretties (in particular my awesome nose rings from Silk Road Tribal! I love the girls who run that business, sweetest ladies ever. Got to go to Korbel again with Molly and Ryan.

That's all that's coming to mind currently. I'll leave you with a picture from our performance at TF10. (There'll be a post to follow solely of pictures from the trip)

I love my troupe mates... we did good this year. =)

C&T and TF10 Costuming

I have been a busy, busy lady this weekend.
I attacked C&T and TF10 costuming head on. Sorry no pics ;-)

Trying to come up with a design for C&T bra that hasn't been done a million times. Ponder. Ponder.

I have much hand sewing left to do. Then to sparkle... I hope my rhinestone order gets here today.