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You have to die in order to live

 

I know it´s harsh but it´s true: you have to die - again and again - in order to live.

I am crazy. That´s a fact. But keep reading. 

 

I look forward, yet again, and I see the crossover.

It shows up like an Indiana Jones bridge - crumbling, dangerous, adventurous, uncertain in its ability to sustain me; not promising to get me, safely, to the other side. 

I´ve been here before - this moment of death and rebirth - but it always catches me...

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Do THIS today🧚

 

Do THIS today.

If nothing else, do it today. 

(Curious? Keep reading this post)

 


I can only share what I´ve become and, therefore, learned.

 

And here´s an interesting thing I´ve learned:

Not everyone wants to evolve.

All of us grow older - that´s mandatory - but few actually grow up - that´s optional. 

 

Outch.

Take a second.

Yep, that one hurts. 

 

Saying no to growth - dance and/or personal growth - is...

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Discoveries from my Bed Rest (when a dancer has to stop moving)

 
 
“Doing those deeply unfashionable things—slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now, but it is essential. This is a crossroads we all know, a moment when you need to shed a skin. If you do, you’ll expose all those painful nerve endings and feel so raw that you’ll need to take care of yourself for a while. If you don’t, then that skin will harden around you.”
 
Katherine May -...
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Simple Things that bring Joy to your Dance

 

Let me ask you something:

When you think about Egyptian Dance, what are the first words that pop into your head?

For most of us, Egyptian Dance comes with baggage. Heavy Baggage.

My man was once asked, in an ushered, almost forbidden manner, if what "I did" was allowed for children.

I was often asked, at the beginning of my career, if what I did was a dance of seduction and whom, if I didn´t mind answering it, I was seducing.

 

 

When "Egyptian Dance" comes to the...

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The Night I proposed to Fifi Abdou

Joana Saahirah World
The Night I proposed to Fifi Abdou
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She blew the "shisha" smoke upon my face. 

I fell in love.

 

Her hips were fierce and she wore an unapologetic "spray-covered" humongous hairdo.

I fell in love.

 

She did little but what she did was DA BOMB.

I fell in love.

 

She showed me the magic of a Baladi Awadi although she couldn´t care less about what we, the audience, thought of her.

 

Then, I didn´t only fall in love. I proposed to Fifi, one of the biggest icons of Egyptian Dance.

 

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