Bellydance at Marketfest

Well, I did my first performance as a troupe member! It was really fun, and since we're a professional Bellydance troupe, we get paid for it too.
I love doing Tribal Bellydance, it's an empowering and strong form of dance for women, much different than the showy Egyptian Oriental style of bellydance that's more for performance.

It is great for pregnant women, and originated with women doing it for other women, particularly women in labor. There is another troupe member who is also pregnant, but not quite as far a long.

Waiting to enter...

Aloka is the one in the red shirt, watching the performance... there were people surrounding us!