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I've known Farah since we started classes together many years ago and we danced together a lot back then. We're still good friends. It has been a long time since she danced at Seaside. She elected not to continue dancing - lost interest in the "scene". She's an incredibly natural dancer, but she wasn't into a lot of the other aspects of the bellydance world. I can't say I blame her. I asked her just the other day if she would ever consider dancing again, and she says she just has no interest in pursuing it.
When she won that contest, she had been bellydancing for only 2 years. I was there for the preliminaries (and weirdly, I do not remember Farnoosh and Jillina using the same music...I don't think they did in the prelims). Jillina's performance was strong too, but I think the difference was that Farnoosh/Farah had a lot more natural feeling and emotion, and it was the Egyptian category after all. From what I understand, this inspired Jillina to go to Egypt and study Egyptian style more intensively. Sometimes coming in second can really pay off!
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