Delilah’s daughter will be an important part of the tour entourage. She’s new to performing belly dance, even though she has been vicariously participating in belly dance since before she was born in utero. As soon as she could stand, she whirled around the living room with circle belly dance skirts. All the little girls in the neighborhood loved Laura Rose’s costume closet. Laura has always had a flair for drama, costuming and a dynamic performance. This will be her first formal debut.
Growing up, Laura Rose witnessed some amazing events and hung with legends in both the belly dance and music worlds. Her early participation could not be more natural. Delilah, Laura Rose and her younger sister, Victoria, would take costumes and musical instruments on camping trips and dance in the Hoh Rainforest, or on the Beach in Maui. The girls both participated in dance performances when they were small — on stages with the Tanavar Dance ensemble, as extras, on retreats, and in parades. Laura Rose has experienced this dance as a dancer, but also through the eye of the camera. She recently graduated from The Evergreen Sate College with a bachelor of Arts in Film and Video. She has been designing and authoring DVDs for Visionary Belly Dance Productions for the past two years.
When she was editing Visionary Dance’s newly-released DVD called “A Retro Choreography/Fire at the Iao,” she painstakingly built bouncing-ball graphic overlays of Delilah’s image so students can follow hip moves as Delilah dances them on screen. Building these graphics brought Laura Rose a deeper understanding for the movements and their construction. During the process of editing, Laura Rose would review, and go over every frame of the program with a fine tooth comb. She would hear the instruction over and over again, as you can well imagine, it moved deep into her mind and body. She often arose from the editing suite exhibiting Delilah’s perfectly executed moves, which prove challenging for Delilah's more experienced students. This just emphasizes the power of cyber review; the of repetitive viewing of a movement or technique via educational video or DVD mediums. They sent her to school to learn film and video and she learned to belly dance in the process!
