A clip of Virrina the belly dancer!

Wow! This women has re-inspired me! I found some clips of her from my old VHS tapes. She had been dancing for years before I got my camcorder in 2002, but I have some footage of her from then and all the way up to 2009. She danced with Whirlwinds until 2011. She is full of energy and you can tell how much belly dancing meant to her. So passionate!

It was easier to share this here video with my Vimeo account because Facebook is always giving me crap about stealing music when I share videos.

I made this video for her husband Richard. Some people may not know this, but Richard is my cousin. He is my grandpa’s sister’s son. This is my dad’s side, “Santistevan”. So he is my dad’s first cousin.

I knew Virrina before I knew she was married to my cousin, Virrina had invited his family to Grecian Garden to watch us dance at Thia’s Open Night at Grecian’s. When we came out they were like “Whoa! wth is Shasha doing out there with Virrina”. It was a weird moment.

Well,…we, our troupe, had a lot of fun with the camcorder recording ourselves. Over the next few years we all merged into the technology of taking video with our phones. Everything before that was on my VHS from my camcorder. I took her solos and some clips of us, and made a video for Richard to take to the service they have planned for her today. I am not going as it is only for the immediate family. But he wanted to share her love for belly dancing with her family.

There are two songs in the video. The second song is chosen because it was her all time favorite song to dance to. More than Oojami’s “Chicky” and we know how she loved that one. But out of all of her solos, the song “One Thousand & One Nights (Alf Leyla Wlayla)” a remix by Said Mrad, this was her number one very favorite song for her solos. I chose the short version and knowing Virrina, she always chose the long version. Hah Ha! We love that memory. You go girl!