I'm not a Tribal dancer of any sort, but I'd like to chime in with a few things:
1. Old-style non-Tribal dancers ALWAYS improv'd and some of us still do.
2. A lot of those "tribal fusion" costumes look awful familiar; didn't I used to wear a lot of the same style back when I did my own sewing? I still like them, but I'm still an old-school ME dancer. Oh, BTW, coins? We used'em them, still use 'em now. (I've been told recently that my style is classified as "Tribaret". Something about the flat-footed and Turkish influence. WTF?)
3. Rachel Brice no longer calls herself "tribal"; she calls herself "dark cabaret" which I find even more (for want of a better word) annoying.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.....
