A sci-fi belly dance? By HollyHopDrive in HollyHopDrive's Diary Mon Dec 23, 2013 at 04:33:40 PM EST Tags: (all tags)
	They want me to do a sci-fi belly dance? Clearly there is only one option.

A white costume with long, flowing sleeves and skirt, with a Danish pastry wig, and then a stick dance to the Star Wars theme tune using a light sabre. Won't be easy to choreograph, though. I have no idea how to move like a warrior princess or how to belly dance to John Williams scores. Plus many stick/sword dance moves involve holding the prop horizontally at both ends, balancing it on your head and so on. Probably shouldn't do that with a light sabre. A bit limiting. I think the idea has potential though. Could be very funny. And before any of you mention it, yes, I have thought about the metal bikini. Haven't ruled it out entirely. I'd need to get creative with the costume though, and make it myself. There are precisely three places where you can get one. Two of them are prohibitively expensive and one of them is a cheap and nasty fancy dress set. Promotional image here, actual thing here. And of course, none of them go up to my size in the top/bra, even the expensive custom order ones. I knew they wouldn't. It was ever thus. Usually when you're preparing to choreograph a dance, you have a look on YouTube for some inspiration and ideas. I can't find anyone doing a Princess Leia light sabre dance, though I've found a couple of warrior princess sword dances that help a bit. The only Princess Leia dances I can find are ordinary belly dances by women dressed as slave Leia. They're good but they're just dances being performed in the metal bikini, usually drum solos. They have absolutely nothing to do with the character of Leia or Star Wars. I guess it depends on how many dances they want me to do. If just one, it'll be a mildly humorous Princess Leia light sabre dance to Star Wars. If two, then maybe in the second half, if I can think of a way to make a slave Leia costume, it'll be based around a sense of sadness, defeat and hopelessness, not overt sexiness. I'm thinking maybe the music could be Yearning by Raul Ferrando. YouTube's not working for me right now, look it up yourself if you're interested. It's only for charity so it hardly matters if I cock it up. I am definitely not a professional or advanced level dancer. Still, it's a form of creativity I enjoy so it would be nice to choreograph and perform to the best of my ability. No hoops in this one.

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