It´s URGENT.

I envy people who can be cool and cold in Life. They seem to have no blood running in their veins, God bless them!

Due to survival skills one must develop while living in a fantastic jungle like Egypt, I understand how the majority of us tend to forget how to FELL true friendship, LOVE, passion and all the HOT-HOT-HOT feelings, uncontrolable and amazing feelings that make this Life worth living.

Yes, I envy everyone who is not in a hurry to FEEL ALIVE, to DO GOOD THINGS, to MAKE LOVE, to FALL in LOVE, to WORK HARD and PLAY HARD.

Damn, this latin blood running inside of me...it always makes me FEEL too much, laugh too much, cry too much, wanting and letting go too much and, certainly, LOVE and DANCE like there is no tomorrow.

Being faithful to my latin blood and true character, I am driven by my URGENCY to do whatever I FEEL like doing. Therefore, there is an URGENCY yelling inside my chest, not allowing to me sit still on what I´ve already achieved and move FORWARD, way out of my comfort zones and right into the clif that leads me to unknown oceans of brand new discoveries.

It is URGENT, right now to:

1. Save Oriental Dance from disappearing in Egypt. I´ve been performing here for the past 5 years (going to 6, God...how time flies...) and observed how the native Dance of egyptians is being neglected, deteriorated and increasingly banished from the country´s daily life.

Egyptian Music and Dance are not something you easily find nowadays in Cairo. Actually, it is becoming more and more restricted, rare, forbidden.

Clients who used to hire me with my orchestra, are getting used to request my show on the sound of a cd when the best musicians are at a phone call distance right under my wings. The interaction between a GOOD PROFESSIONAL DANCER and her ORCHESTRA cannot, EVER, be replaced by the cool, cold, dead sound of a cd player.

2. Rescue Oriental Dance in the world from this EXTREME COMMERCIALISM and MAFIA connections that rule the dance business world wide. There are exceptions, of course.They are honourable and VERY few.

The sponsors who invite me to perform and teach at their events world wide are, usually, professionals who know my performing work in Cairo and wish for SOMETHING DIFFERENT and REAL but, most of the times, clones are prone to produce more clones for profit.

Dancers turning themselves into puppets who copy other puppets and the ORIENTAL ART transforming itself into a cheap acrobatic, show off, soul empty activity which survives out of most people s ignorance about the subject.

Oriental Dance needs, URGENTLY, of ARTISTS. And the SOUL*** of this ART must be, once and for all, rescued.

3. It is URGENT to bring back Oriental Dance to EGYPTIAN WOMEN.

When I organized the first CAIRO ORIENTAL LADIES NIGHT and WORKSHOP for the women of this city, many voices ran high asking me if I was going with the flow of the religious extremism and, therefore, reducing Oriental Dance into an exclusively feminine matter.

It never occured to me that someone would consider me as going with the flow of religious extremism as I am a very loud voice against it and have always criticized it, as well as other things I live here in Egypt.

My goal -then again, URGENT - is to make these incredibly gifted WOMEN of EGYPT REMEMBER their true dance, away from the prejudices, ignorance and decadence they got used to associate with it.

Performing in Cairo with my own orchestra and receiving a blessed SUCCESS (thanks God***) from it is something I LOVE and never take for granted, no matter how many times I´ve experienced it. Yet there is a SPECIAL work to be done with EGYPTIAN WOMEN and this is one of my newest URGENT dreams, growing with the same FIRE and WILLINGNESS to explore that I apply to everything else I do.

4. URGENCY to LOVE more, to lose the fear of being vulnerable, of making mistakes and not being appreciated by everyone. URGENCY to always be a little bit more of myself, no matter what.

....Oh, how I envy the cold, dead people I so often see around me...wish I could be cool and unattached like them but then I would not be me and my DANCE would not be what it is*** and I would not fall in love like a mad woman like I always do and, and, and...

Blessed latin blood.;)