~ EVENT REVIEW ~
My Experience at Tribal Massive -
with photos from The Massive Spectacular!
By Darlina Marie
Photos by Yaniv Halfon
www.yanivhalfonphotography.com
I am from and reside in El Paso, Texas, and have been
working hard towards my Fusion Belly Dance career since
2004. I started teaching in 2006, which was probably
way sooner than I should have, but I wanted to help my
community to find the magic in this dance that I did. Our
Fusion Belly Dance education resources are very limited
out here so I started a savings so that I could take any
and all workshops with the famous pro dancers that are
accessible to me in person (which is a few times a year
at best). My troupe and I started trying to go to out of
town dance festivals about once a year back in 2013. We
were able to make it for a few festivals, but given that we
are so far away from so many huge festivals, travel and
taking time off of work even just once a year can get very
expensive and difficult.
I had first discovered The Massive Spectacular videos
on YouTube years ago and obsessively watched them all
repeatedly. I thought it was just this fabulous production
that the famous dancers got to be a part of every year. I
Sadie
Marquardt
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