gothic bellydance dvd and friendship

...

so I lent a friend my Gothic Bellydance DVD, warning her that there was some... weird stuff on there. Fine. So we agreed that the S&M scene was just weird, as was the gold larva writhing around on the floor bit.

BUT the knife duet/duel that was one of my absolute FAVORITE pieces. She didn't like it and fast forwarded through it.

her: "That's not what belly dance is about, I didn't want to see that. It looked like they were trying to stab each other in the back..."

me: "but it was so beautiful, so passionate, so... perfect - they were intensly well matched...I could just see the whole story unfold as they danced..."

...

somehow the conversation then degenerated into how she is not going to give up her classical egyptian stylings and then how she thinks I might be better suited to tribal stylings with a third person chiming in offering the same opinion (on my style).

different strokes. and I'm not put off by it - I have to take egyptian classes or drive the two hours to Sarnia for tribal lessons. but since she is my friend I had hoped she would see the same beauty in it that I did. I guess that was a trifle disappointing - I expected her to see it with my eyes. Foolish of me, but... *shrugs*


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