{"id":7860,"date":"2020-12-15T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2020-12-15T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:40:35","slug":"first-dance-of-2020-last-dance-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/first-dance-of-2020-last-dance-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"First Dance of 2020? Last Dance of 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For a variety of reasons, 2020 was a &#8220;challenging&#8221; year. Please feel free to insert any explicative or adjective you prefer in the quotes. Challenging was the best I could do without cursing a blue streak! I had Covid and thankfully recovered! I&#8217;ve been wrastling with &#8220;Frozen Shoulder&#8221; but I can now get my right hand over my head along one movement path. Once I got that far in my recovery, I set a goal for myself in September to do a digital performance before the end of the year. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What seemed impossible in July, became a goal in September and happened in December. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">My first, only, and last performance of 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M68PWwe7Qws?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks to Bay Area show impresario Sudeep of &#8220;Bay Area Belly&#8221; fame and her troupe Raks Jawhara, I got to team up with my buddy Alisha aka Zemira, to dance in a properly social distanced belly dance show. Sudeep hosted a holiday mini-fest and I was thrilled to be invited as a guest act. Alisha, who has been part of my family &#8220;bubble&#8221; since March, teamed up.\u00a0 With my limited motion, we decided on an improv cane dance to her favorite holiday song &#8220;Sisters&#8221; from the movie &#8220;White Christmas.&#8221;\u00a0 Then we each did a one-song-solo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">Watch the Whole Event<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQftJ6EsmIg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sudeep located a park with a covered patio behind one of the community buildings local for this event.\u00a0 We all wore masks and stayed properly distanced for health and safety. It was a lovely space and she&#8217;s thinking of hosting future events there. I hope to be invited back to &#8220;The Patio&#8221; for a future show.\u00a0 Thank you, Sudeep!\u00a0 \u00a0Special shout out to Mr. Sudeep for recording the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you&#8217;ve danced in a digital show recently and want to share? If it&#8217;s on YouTube, why not click through on the Zemira &amp; Davina video and leave a link to your performance there? I would love to see more dance!\u00a0 If you&#8217;re over on Facebook, drop me a DM and be happy to come and watch!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>I wish you health and happiness this holiday season!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>Dawn Devine ~ Davina<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>December 14, 2020<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/first-dance-of-2020-last-dance-of-2020\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>For a variety of reasons, 2020 was a &#8220;challenging&#8221; year. Please feel free to insert any explicative or adjective you prefer in the quotes. Challenging was the best I could do without cursing a blue streak! I had Covid and thankfully recovered! I&#8217;ve been wrastling with &#8220;Frozen Shoulder&#8221; but I can now get my right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-22M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}