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A Casablanca Moroccan Dinner Party in Rocklin

by Nyla Crystal on November 23, 2011

Are you throwing a dinner or cocktail party soon and looking for a great way to spice up the evening? Try hosting a Casablanca themed party and treat everyone to a luxurious evening of exotic Moroccan food, colorful decorations, and brilliant party entertainment that will leave your guests with fun memories, great photos, and some new dance moves.

For her annual gala dinner event in Rocklin, California, Kathy decided on a loose Moroccan and Casablanca movie theme. She did not want the guests to miss social opportunities by watching a movie so she opted for belly dance entertainment to keep everyone active and in a festive mood. Kathy really wanted everyone to experience the evening together so we planned the belly dance show to start in the middle of dinner, which would keep fast eaters entertained while giving slower eaters enough time to finish their meals comfortably. After getting some general background on her dinner guests, I put together a great performance to entertain her mixed group of Americans and Persian-Americans.

Belly dance performance during dinner.

Held in her own backyard, Kathy created a Moroccan feel using bold colors and a few Moroccan decorations. So she could enjoy her own party, Kathy hired a local catering company to help with the dinner and food service.

An atmosphere of romantic elegance was complete with men in white dinner jackets, gorgeous ladies in black cocktail dresses, tables donning orange linens, and Moroccan lanterns that glowed under a starlit sky.

Belly dancing lessons at the Casablanca party.

After cocktails, the guests dined upon a traditional Moroccan dinner of chilled Moroccan carrot salad flavored with cumin, paprika, cinnamon, and cayenne, jasmine-scented couscous, delicious saffron chicken bastilla pies dusted with powdered sugar and cinnamon, lamb tagine with olives and preserved lemons, and spiced kababs cooked with roasted peppers.

Well into their dinner, I surprised the guests with an enchanting belly dance performance. To keep with the Moroccan theme, I wore red and green costumes representing the colors of the Moroccan flag and danced to a mix of Arabic classics and Moroccan songs. Although the sword dance is not a part of traditional Moroccan dances, it was a big hit with the dinner guests and definitely a conversation starter. The guests loved the dancing and the concept of dinner entertainment to enhance the party’s Casablanca theme.

Belly dancing at a Casablanca party.

After dinner and some time for more mingling, the desserts were brought out and served with digestifs and fragrant mint tea. I came back out for a second set focusing on audience participation. The group was lively and ready to dance the night away. To help everyone with dancing to Moroccan music Kathy found on iTunes, I gave some impromptu belly dance lessons and posed with guests for photos. Everyone had a great time learning how to belly dance and didn’t realize how many talented dancers there were in the group!

Interested in throwing a Casablanca themed dinner or cocktail party in the Sacramento or San Francisco area? Fill out a booking request or call me at 916-572-3559 to get started on planning your Moroccan themed dinner party.

Have questions or Casablanca dinner party tips? Write them below in the comment box.

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Lavish & Fabulous, a Couture Bridal Show in Sacramento

by Nyla Crystal on November 8, 2011

Are you lavish and fabulous? Of course you are and you want your wedding or gala event to be lavish and fabulous too!

On Thursday, November 10th, 2011, Fearon May Events and Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa present Lavish & Fabulous, a couture bridal show in Sacramento featuring a hand picked selection of the finest wedding professionals in the Sacramento area. This will not be your average bridal show; the luxury vendors have worked together to create themed vignette table top designs that showcase each element of wedding design. From table settings, cuisine, wedding cakes, room design, reception entertainment, and more, Lavish & Fabulous creates a beautiful boutique style bridal show without clutter and sales pitches. See something you like? Mingle with the vendors and find out what they can do for your wedding. The luxurious, but low key environment of Lavish & Fabulous will make planning your wedding fun and entertaining.

Even if you are not planning a wedding, come out to see the amazing table top designs and professional wedding entertainers. Most of the vendors cater to gala events as well as weddings so if you are looking for some fabulous people to help make your next special event fabulous, you should check out Lavish & Fabulous.

Nyla Crystal with Flowers of the Nile

As you enter the bridal show on a red carpet, you will be handed a glass of champagne to kick off your luxurious evening with opportunities to sample delicious hors d’oeuvres and desserts. The designs will be lavish and the entertainment provided by Hip Entertainment of Sacramento will be fabulous. You’ll be able to see performances by exclusive Sacramento wedding artists such as master harpist Motoshi Kosako, acoustic guitarist and singer James Cavern, the famous wedding cover band Mother Mayhem, and me performing a belly dance show with live music by Sacramento’s own Flowers of the Nile at 7:15pm and 8:45pm. Belly dancing is definitely Hip Entertainment and a hot trend to add to liven up traditional Western wedding regalia. Learn more about the artists on Hip Entertainment’s blog.

Who: Brides and event hosts
What: Lavish & Fabulous, a couture bridal event (Check out the beautiful event photos)
Where: Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa
1220 Arden Hills Lane, Sacramento, CA 95864
When: Thursday, November 10th
Doors open at 6pm for VIP ticket holders and 7pm for general admission
How: Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Wear cocktail attire. 21+
Why: Because you want a Lavish & Fabulous wedding or event!

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Belly Dancing and Live Music Show in Sacramento

by Nyla Crystal on October 18, 2011

Live music Egyptian style in Sacramento.

Thursday nights are the best belly dancing nights in Sacramento, CA. Why? Come down to Kasbah Lounge in Midtown Sacramento to find out!

Starting at about 9:30pm on Thursdays and lasting till midnight, you will be treated to a belly dance show with live music. These live music belly dance shows are even a rarity in San Francisco so we are really fortunate to have them up here in Sacramento.

Belly dancing with Flowers of the Nile

1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursdays

Providing an amazing cultural experience, Flowers of the Nile perform beautiful and fun Egyptian classics ranging from folk songs to Golden Era singers like Om Kalthoum, Mohammed Abdel Wehab, and Abdel Halim Hafez to songs made famous by Middle Eastern pop star Hakim.

Belly dancing is done best to live music. The combination of Flowers of the Nile’s oud, flute, and doumbek drum with the belly dancer’s zills (finger cymbals) and dance moves blend into an enchanting show that will transport you to an authentic night at a Middle Eastern tea and hookah cafe. Kasbah Lounge has a beautifully decorated covered courtyard to keep you dry and heat lamps to keep you warm so you can enjoy the live music and belly dancing year round; even on cold rainy nights.

The Flowers of the Nile attract a great crowd whom play tambourines, clap to the rhythm, and sing along with the band to songs from their home countries. If you do not speak Arabic, you can still appreciate the beautiful music and clap along with the drum beats. Don’t be surprised if you feel compelled to get up and dance without the belly dancer’s encouragement!

Belly dance show with live music in Sacramento

Belly dance show with live music at Kasbah Lounge in Sacramento.

Although there is belly dancing every night of the week by many different talented belly dancers at Kasbah Lounge, live music Thursdays are truly my favorite nights to belly dance in Sacramento. Check out my belly dance performance calendar to see my next Thursday night show with live Egyptian music.

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Ahoy! An Adult Fantasy Birthday Party

by Nyla Crystal on October 9, 2011

San Francisco mermaid and pirates

Last night I performed in a fantasy world of pirates, mermaids, buried treasure, and a beautiful old ship. But, this birthday party was not for a child; it was tastefully remade as an adult fairy tale. To arrive at Forbes Island, a half island, half boat restaurant venue in San Francisco, guests rode a private water taxi amongst barking sea lions. The island was complete with a light house, white sand beaches, palm trees, and a Tahitian thatched beach hut serving as a dance floor with DJ Alex. Below the island was an elegantly decorated nautical themed dining room. The portholes gave a view of the underwater scenery and the large central fireplace kept guests warm on a chilly San Francisco night.

The birthday boy was surprised by two pirates who entertained the guests as they dined by telling salty sea stories and demanding to know where the treasure was. At the end of the meal, the birthday boy found a riddle that told of where the treasure was and that it was guarded by a siren. The pirates handed the sword to the birthday boy for protection as he and the guests rushed upstairs to the beach where the long haired sea maiden was waiting for him.

Forbes Island

In a rhinestone-covered seashell top and mermaid tail decorated with shells, sequins, rhinestones, and starfish, I performed a mermaid themed belly dance show while the birthday boy nervously held onto his sword. The wind blew my hair all over the place for an unexpected special effect that made me look like I was dancing underwater. The birthday boy was a good sport (after a couple of Mai-Tais and some encouragement by me) and showed off his belly dancing skills to his friends and family during the show. During his belly dance debut, I stole the sword from him and performed a sword balancing routine to end the performance.

After his final bow, a beautiful birthday cake was presented to the birthday boy by his beautiful wife and the night continued on with DJ dancing, a fun photobooth, drinks below at the galley bar, and trips up the lighthouse to marvel at the beautiful view of downtown San Francisco, Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate Bridge. A fantasy-filled birthday party indeed!

View of San Francisco from the lighthouse.

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5 Ways to Improve your Zill (Finger Cymbal) Playing

by Nyla Crystal on September 30, 2011

Playing zills/sagat (finger cymbals) during your belly dance performance is a great way to add excitement and more skill to your show. Playing zills during your belly dance performance is also a great way to drive your audience away and searching for an aspirin bottle.

1. Limit your zill playing

Zills finger cymbals to live music in Sacramento

Playing zills with live music in Sacramento

The drummer is already keeping the song rhythm so there is no reason to mirror the drumming for the entire song. Play for a couple phrases through a melody and then switch to adding accents for a while. There is no better way to agitate an audience than playing a gallop/triple through an entire song.

2. Share the sound space

In Arabic music, the singing is a very important part of the song. If audience members understand Arabic, they will want to hear the lyrics, not constant zilling over the voice. This is especially important when dancing with a live band. Limit your heavy finger cymbal playing to the musical interludes and use accents during the verse and chorus sections. This also applies to instrumental pieces where an instrument takes the place of the singer.

3. Vary your intensity

Singers and melody musicians play different notes. Drummers also make different sounds by using different drums or hitting the same drum in different ways. Although you may not consider yourself a musician, you are playing a musical instrument and need to follow suit to make the song pleasant to listen to. At the very least, finger cymbals can make 3 different sounds. A flat clack or clap, a ring, and a click.

To make the clack or clap sound, use your pointer and/or ring finger to stabilize the zill so the sound is muted when you hit the zills together.
To make the ring sound, make sure nothing is touching the zill (except for where it is attached to your finger) and release the zills immediately after hitting them together.
To make a clicking sound, play the finger cymbals in a “T” formation where the thumb zill is vertical and the middle finger zill is horizontal.

4. Learn your rhythms and use them

If your current belly dance teacher doesn’t teach finger cymbals, instructional books, tapes, and videos are a second best. If you do a quick Google search for “finger cymbal instruction”, you will find a wide variety of books, CDs, and DVDs to buy. I recommend using Mary Ellen Donald’s finger cymbal instructional book and CDs. Start by learning the basic rhythms and learn how to recognize them. If the drummer is playing a fellahi rhythm, you should either be playing it too or accenting where appropriate. Playing a different rhythm can confuse the musicians or make a recorded CD sound too “busy”.

5. Take time to prep your zills

This may seem like a no brainer, but how many of us have played finger cymbals that were either too tight and cutting off circulation, or too loose and flopping around to mumble the rhythm? Safety pins are not the answer to securing the elastic. Safety pins will get hammered out of shape eventually and will either fall off or the pin will stick in the elastic of the opposite zill and keep it stuck shut. The safety pins and extra elastic will also dampen the sound in a finger cymbal. Measure the elastic so it fits snug on your fingers and sew the ends together so they overlap and don’t leave a tail hanging in the bell space. To keep your zills fitting properly, don’t let other people wear them. They might stretch out the elastic if their fingers are bigger than yours and you’ll have to spend time sewing new elastic on.

For more information on finger cymbals, check out these articles by Yasmin and Artemis and Shira’s online finger cymbal workshop.
Have more finger cymbal advice that I didn’t talk about or links to other zill articles you like? Please leave them in the comment box below. Thank you!

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Belly Dancing in Japan Part II

by Nyla Crystal on September 14, 2011

In case you missed part I: Belly Dancing in Japan

Deer:Nara :: Nike Stores:Kyoto

Troupe Scimitar posing with our belly dance sign in Kyoto.

A working vacation is hard to plan. On one hand, performing belly dance in Japan was a wonderful experience, but on the other hand, there were was so much more sight seeing we wanted to experience. Finding the right balance between playing tourist and performer was challenging at times.

During our play time, Surreyya and I visited Nara, which is famous for hosting one of the world’s largest Buddha statues and also famous for its dense deer population outside the Kasuga Shrine. According to legend, the ancient god Takemikazuchi rode into Nara on a white deer and guarded the city. To this day, deer are regarded as sacred animals and protectors. To pay homage to the deer, we bought some deer biscuits (shika sembei) to feed them. After their aggressive attempts to find more deer biscuits in our pockets, we decided to not test their fighting ability and moved on to the city center to experience a Japanese street festival. Music, dancers, parades, street vendors, and more all gathered around a large pond in the city center. At dusk, people started lighting candles to float on small wooden boats in the pond. It looked really fun and we wanted to stay, but duty called and we had to hop a train to Kyoto for a performance with Keke and her belly dance school.

Finding Cafe Poone Poone was a bit of a challenge in the large commercial Kyoto downtown. We were told it was located across the street from the Nike store, but were dismayed when we found 3 Nike Stores on Kawaramachi Dori! After a few frantic phone calls, we found one of Keke’s students flagging us down on the sidewalk and were escorted to the Persian restaurant for our show. Keke was a wonderful hostess and her students were as excited to see American style belly dance as we were to see Japanese style belly dance.

Performing for a Japanese audience was a different experience from what we were used to. While performing the entire restaurant stopped eating and turned to watch the belly dance show with rapt attention. I felt bad that their food was getting cold, but I guess that is to be expected when seeing a dinner show in Japan. The audience watched in dead silence until the end of the routine when a polite golf clap was delivered. Confused, we were uncertain they liked our performance, but after the show, we found out that they loved it. We were just used to the way Americans show their appreciation by whooping, screaming, and clapping mid-show. The Japanese show their appreciation in a different way. We also learned that keeping your glass half full of sake will prevent you from being pressured into drinking more than planned during the show’s after-party!

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Carnival of Stars 2011

by Nyla Crystal on August 31, 2011

Sacramento belly dancer Nyla Crystal at Carnival of Stars 2011

Carnival of Stars is an annual belly dance festival and comic book convention held in Richmond, CA. The event organizers Alexandria and Latifa do a great job of mixing the to genres, which makes for a fun and interesting experience. This year we tried something new and added belly dance workshops to the event. Organized by the amazing Surreyya Hada, Helena Vlahos from Pheonix, AZ, Seleena Kareena from Truth or Consequences, NM, Farasha from Las Vegas, NV, Ginnina from Las Cruzes, NM, and Shria from Iowa City, IA all traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to teach workshops along with Terry Del G from San Rafael, CA, Surreyya, and I. The lineup was fabulous and covered topics from debke to Turkish 9/8 to Isis wings to quarter rolling.

The quarter rolling was definitely a unique workshop topic and taught by Guiness book of world records holder Helena Vlahos! Check our her quarter rolling!

Helena Vlahos – Nine Quarters Act

I could not get my quarters to roll at all, but I was able to learn spirited Greek belly dance from Helena and later a Golden Age Egyptian choreography from Selena Kareena.

After all the workshops and Carnival of Stars performances by the “Southwest Invasion”, we headed out to San Francisco for a fun instructor’s Carnival of Stars after party at Al-Masri. More fun and dancing ensued until it was way past my bed time on Sunday night. It was worth the lack of sleep and I decided not to do any hazardous experiments at school Monday morning.

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How to Behave Like a Professional Belly Dancer: Part I – Plagiarism

by Nyla Crystal on July 25, 2011

Becoming a professional belly dancer is an exciting time. All those years of practice and all the money you’ve invested in classes, workshops, troupe performances, and costumes are now finally going to start paying off. If you are fortunate to have a great mentor to hold your hand through the process, this transition period from advanced student to professional belly dancer will be easy. If you don’t have a good mentor to help guide you, so many questions are probably running through your head.

How do I become a professional belly dancer?
How do I book belly dance gigs?
How do I prove myself to my teacher and my community?

For this blog series, we will put the belly dancing part aside and focus on the professional part that you won’t learn in class (unless you have an awesome teacher) or from belly dance DVDs.

Don't be a copycat!

Don’t be a copycat!
Image from Couscous, stolen from Nyla Crystal

Part I: Don’t plagiarize!
So you have decided to become a professional belly dancer and put up a website announcing your professional status to the world. What do you write? How do you convince people to hire you for their birthday party, wedding or corporate event? Many belly dancers are not trained writers and have no clue how to best market themselves. With the internet, it is so easy to check out what other belly dancers have written and even easier to copy and paste it onto your website. Don’t do it! Whether you are plagiarizing a local dancer’s website or copying a belly dancer from across the country, the consequences of plagiarism far outweigh the benefit of using another dancer’s words to describe your belly dance service.

Plagiarism has several forms ranging from blatant copying of written material without citing the source in an obvious way to changing one or two words in a copied sentence. Confused on what constitutes plagiarism? Read this article on the types of plagiarism.

Plagiarizing another belly dancer’s website is fraud and a crime.
Legal punishments for plagiarism range from misdemeanor fines starting at $100 to felony charges and jail time. According to www.plagerism.org, earning $2,500 or more off of plagiarized material can be punished with fines up to $250,000 and 10 years in jail. Now in all reality, most belly dancers probably won’t go after a plagiarizer in court and push for such a severe punishment, but if you copy from the wrong belly dancer on the wrong day, who knows what legal action they will take.

Why does it matter?
Writing a website is a reflection of yourself. Belly dancers know that customers not only want to hire a good dancer, but want to hire someone they feel comfortable letting into their home and being around their family. Personalities are a very important part of the hiring process. Would you steal another belly dancer’s photos? Or be creepy and edit your face into the photo? If not, then why would you edit your name into their personal writing?

In addition to misrepresenting yourself, think of the dancer who wrote the material. My friend Carrara Nour is a fabulous Orlando belly dancer and a fabulous writer. Because of her unique style of writing, her website is continually plagiarized. She pours hours of time and thought into writing the copy on her website to reflect her unique personality and business. How do you think she feels when she spends so much time on her website only to have someone else steal her writing and use it for their benefit? It is disheartening to say the least.

Other dancers who are not as good at writing pay copywriters to write their website content. If you copy their websites, you will not only be sued with the amount the dancer paid the copywriter, but you may also be chased after by the copywriter for plagiarism.

Besides misrepresenting yourself, committing a punishable crime, and potentially burning a bridge with another belly dancer(s), plagiarizing will directly impact your website in search engine rankings. Google heavily penalizes websites with plagiarized and duplicate content. This can result in Google lowering your search rankings, reducing your website exposure, and even banning your website completely.

People will notice.
The worldwide belly dance community is small and online it is even smaller. If you think you are the only belly dancer checking out other websites, you are wrong. I read other belly dancer’s websites all the time not only because I am curious about people who share my love for belly dance, but to also make new networking connections and see what others are doing in the community. I am writing this article on plagiarism because I am just shocked at how often I see the same paragraphs copied word for word throughout the internet.

Do you really want to get a bad reputation just because you are too lazy to write your own website wording? Even if you don’t care what other belly dancers think, your potential customers will know something is “off” with you by your website. Have you ever read something that just didn’t fit?

If you are not a good writer it is easy to spot the one or two perfect sentences that aren’t yours within a paragraph. If a client suspects you are unethical, why on Earth would they hire you to dance at their family party?

What to do if you are not a good writer.
As small business owners, it is hard to wear so many different hats. If writing is not your strong suit, do what any other business owner would do and outsource it. I do not consider myself a great writer so I outsourced my webpage. If someone stole the writing I paid for, I would go after them like they had just stolen my car. Stealing web copy is the same as stealing a costume, jewelry, etc.

What to do if you are caught plagiarizing.
Besides changing your wording right away or taking down your website until you can rewrite it in your own words, you will need to apologize to the dancer(s) you copied from. Everyone makes mistakes and if you admit to your mistake, there is room for forgiveness. Also remember that even if you change your website, evidence is left online. Archive.org has done an excellent job of cataloging webpages over time into a huge internet archive. You can even see how ugly my website was in 2008!

The best way to not get caught plagiarizing is to not do it!

Have you had your site plagiarized? Share your story below to let other belly dancers know it is not okay to copy other dancer’s websites. Did I miss a huge point? Please let me know and add it to the comment box. Not convinced plagiarizing is bad? Tell me why in the comment box below.

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Belly Dancing in Japan

by Nyla Crystal on July 24, 2011

My amazing dance partner Surreyya and I (collectively called Troupe Scimitar) were invited to belly dance in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. Our hosts Zoi (Tokyo) and Kiki (Kyoto) were more than gracious and we had such a wonderful time performing with them. Their students were so much fun and very enthusiastic about belly dance. In Japan we learned the importance of being “genki” (enthusiastic, energetic, lively) while belly dancing. Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip to Japan as we toured through Nikko, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nara, Hakone, Osaka, Himeji, and Kyoto.

Belly dancing in Japan after show group shot

Troupe Scimitar becomes Troupe Souvenir Samurai Sword

Being that we are called Troupe Scimitar, we specialize in sword belly dancing and when we travel, everyone wants to see our scimitar belly dance routines. Normally when we travel, the swords are okay to check into cargo on an airplane, but in Japan, it is illegal to import swords into the country! Good thing we did some research and found out about this before boarding the plane. Not wanting to risk being arrested for trying to sneak swords into Japan, we just decided to not do our sword routines and perform our drum solo and veil dances instead. When we arrived in Japan and revealed this plan, we were met with many disappointed belly dancers so we set out to see what we could do about finding swords.

We tried everything from parasols and fans to canes, but nothing balanced the correct way for our specialized sword stunts and we sure weren’t going to buy $1000 samurai swords! Finally after much searching and raised eyebrows in stores as we put merchandise on our heads to dance around (crazy Americans moment!), we found our answer. Toy wooden samurai swords!

We thought it was going to be a pretty lame sword dance because they were small, non-threatening and weren’t the best to balance as they were very light and only balanced on the flat edge, but we managed to make them work. The audience loved it and thought it was great that we were dancing with little toy swords that said “I love Kyoto” on them. After our show at the restaurant, the audience signed our wooden swords and now they are precious keepsakes of our trip to Japan and also reminders that sometimes you just have to improvise!

Interview with Greek/Japanese belly dancer Zoi.

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Sacramento Arabian Nights Party: Easy, fun, and no clean-up!

by Nyla Crystal on July 13, 2011

Nyla Crystal belly dancing with the birthday girl at Kasbah Lounge

Hot summer nights are here and Arabian Nights themed birthday parties are all the rage in Sacramento. Transport your guests to a magical world where colorful glass glows with candle light, lush carpets surround you, and the intoxicating smell of Middle Eastern food drifts in the air along with beautifully haunting Arabic music in the background… The delicious food is professionally prepared and served. As the guests enjoy their tasty Middle Eastern cuisine, you can barely hide your anticipation for the party entertainment.

To create excitement and fun memories, you’ve hired a belly dancer to entertain your friends and get everyone involved. They oooh and ahhhhh at every shimmy, hip circle, and head slide, clap along with the rhythmic finger cymbal playing, gaze dreamily at the silk fluttering in the air, hold their breath during the dangerous sword balancing dance, and wildly cheer as the birthday boy or girl gets up to show off his or her belly dancing skills.

Birthday belly dance fun at Kasbah Lounge

After the show, everyone excitedly talks about their favorite belly dance movement, how great the birthday girl or boy danced, the sparkling costume… They wonder aloud if the sword is real (it is!) and how the belly dancer could possibly move her hips and belly that fast! As the party winds down and fun stories are shared over baklava, cake, mint tea and hookah, you relax knowing that you won’ t have to clean up, do dishes, or return the decorations. You and everyone else can go home and update your Facebook pages with fun photos from the night without having to worry about any clean up duties!

Sounds great, right? Also sounds like a lot of work, right? In our increasingly busy lives, it is hard to find the time to plan out great parties for loved ones. The time it takes to clean the house, buy decorations and decorate, plan a menu, cook, play host or hostess, plan guest entertainment, make a playlist of Arabic songs you’ll have to find and buy, and clean up after it is over is overwhelming and on top of working a full time job, nearly impossible.

Fortunately two venues perfect for your Sacramento Arabian Nights party are only a phone call away. Kasbah Lounge in Midtown and Marrakech Moroccan Restaurant on Fulton Ave each have options where you can rent out the entire restaurant for a grand party, request a private room for your guests, or reserve a cozy table for a small group.

Belly dancing at Marrakech in Sacramento

Both Middle Eastern restaurants are beautifully decorated and serve mouth-watering Middle Eastern cuisine. Unless you are renting out the restaurant for your party, a belly dancer will perform for all the restaurant customers. Kasbah Lounge features belly dancing every night from 9 -10:30pm. At Marrakech, belly dance shows are Friday and Saturdays starting at 7:45pm. If you are renting out the restaurant or your party time does not coincide with the scheduled belly dance shows, call or email Sacramento belly dancer Nyla Crystal to arrange your party’s belly dancing entertainment.

Belly Dance Brilliance Event and Wedding Entertainment | (916) 572-3559 | nyla@nylacrystal.com

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