I haven't danced with any of my snakes for a long long time. Probably about a year and a half. Abby got too big (my albino burm) and my pair of corn snakes were a little small, although I did dance with them last. My very large Grey Rat Snake has finally grown up and calmed down, so I decided to dance with him at a small performance arts event last weekend. It was a small (about 80 people) non-belly dancer crowd, but they were fantastic, yipping and even zaghereeting for us. We had seven soloists, one being pretty much a first timer for a solo, she was a little nervous, but did well keeping herself together. It was a very tiny dance space, on thick carpeting.

Phil the Snake did great. He really got into it, was easy going and fun to work with. He coiled the length of my arm nicely and was very cooperative in creating a serpent crown even. Knowing that I wanted to see if he would perch up their on my little ole head, I made sure I did some smooth and secure headwear. It didn't budge even an inch. Something I did not realize was the very very low ceiling fan (don't worry, it was off), which made things difficult for our taller dancers. Since the space was same level as the audience, I had to improvise the basket placement, normally I would have done a bit of floorwork with the basket...but oh well :)

Anyway, the local paper put up some photos and a video clip on their website, so we are pretty tickled about that :) This is probably the first video clip I have ever shared of myself...so kinda scary scary :)

The Video clip is called 'From Jazz Piano to Snake Dancing"
www.newsherald.com/video/index.php

Here is the photo gallery
www.emeraldcoastphotoseast.com/my...asp

Seh'Layha