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| Please enjoy reading about the events at which we've been honored to perform. |
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| 2011 | Back to Top |
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| Belly and Fire Dancing at the Sea Lounge |
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| Date: | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
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| Come watch Vatra Gitana perform belly and fire dancing at the Sea Lounge, 6 Harper Ave in Carolina Beach. Click here to view a map of the Sea Lounge |
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| Dimension, Dynamics and Delivery - A weekend of workshops with SamiTe' |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 06, 2011 |
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Vatra Gitana is hosting this wonderful weekend of workshops with SamiTe'. SamiTe' has over 15 years of performance experience in several disciplines. A belly dancer by trade, SamiTe' also works as a fire performer and aerial acrobat with the Libravado Sisters Aerial Dance Ensemble. Visit SamiteRocks to view her website. Workshops will be Saturday and Sunday at the Techniques In Motion dance studio with a Dance Gala Saturday night at the Brown Coat Pub.
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| Saturday, August 6th | |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Dynamic Entrances |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Secrets of the Veil |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm | GALA SHOW |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Mood & Musicality |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | SamiTe' Stylings |
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| Click here for a map of the Techniques In Motion dance studio. |
| Click here for a map of nearby hotels.
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| Click here for a map of nearby restaurants.
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| Click here for a map of the Brown Coat Pub.
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 17, 2011 |
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| Vatra Gitana will be once again performing at Thalian Hall, located in downtown Wilmington, NC for the 10th Annual Arts Sensation. We are glad to once again be a part of the fantastic, artful fundraiser to benefit the Fully Belly Project to help support its mission to design and distribute income-generating agricultural devices to help fight hunger and poverty around the world. |
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| Call of the Drums |
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| Date: | Friday, February 11, 2011 |
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| Vatra Gitana will be performing at "The Call of the Drums" benefit. All proceeds help Sarah's Refuge, Inc. a Rape Crisis Center. This event is hosted by the Barefoot Gypsies and will include special guests. $15.00 (per person) includes show, wine tasting and light hors d'oeuvres. Recommended dinner reservations @ 7:00pm. For tickets and/or dinner reservations call The Country Squire @ 910-296-1727. For Tickets Only call Pam @ 910-290-1447. |
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| Winter Magic 2011 |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 05, 2011 |
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| Haya Sophia World Fusion Dance Ensemble and Vatra Gitana present Winter Magic 2011 to benefit the Onslow Women's Center. The benefit will be held at The Commodore Room (above the Mainsail) in Surf City. Doors open at 7:30pm the show is from 8:00pm to 10:00pm. $5.00 at the door. Reservations can be made by calling (910) 328-0045. Join us for a festive evening of Belly Dance and World Fusion Dance performances sure to thrill. Special Music Guest: The Taqasim Tribe. |
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| 2010 | Back to Top |
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| Arts for Awareness |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 13, 2010 |
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| Vatra Gitana performed with various other talented dancers of many styles in Arts for Awareness. A benefit for The Rape Crisis Center. All together with outside supporters in the community they help raise $13,000. The proceeds will benefit the continuation of free and confidential services, 24-hour crisis intervention services, court accompaniment, and community prevention/education programming. |
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| ArtWalk & Parade |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 11, 2010 |
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| Vatra Gitana performed in the 9th Annual Downtown Wilmington ArtWalk & Parade. The ArtWalk showcased various paintings, photographs, jewelry and sculptures, from New Hanover, Pender, and Brunswick counties.With lots of area vendors, this event offered the best art from the region in one location. |
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
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| Vatra Gitana along with the Taqasim Tribe had the pleasure to perform at Thalian Hall, located in downtown Wilmington, NC for the 9th Annual Arts Sensation.We were glad to once again be a part of the fantastic, artful fundraiser to benefit the Fully Belly Project to help support its mission to design and distribute income-generating agricultural devices to help fight hunger and poverty around the world. |
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| Adopt An Angel and Sunburst Foundation Charity Event |
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| Date: | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
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| A myriad of animals go unwanted every year and the volunteers of Adopt An Angel no-kill shelter work hard to find loving homes for thousands of cats and dogs. Vatra Gitana and area belly dancers and fire performers were excited to perform for this cause Friday, August 6 at The Juggling Gypsy Café. |
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| Winter Magic for MAGDRL |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 23, 2010 |
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| Tara Sophia Belly Dance in collaboration with Annwyn Dance, The Barefoot Gypsies, and The Gypsy Sun in Surf City (Topsail Island) put on "Winter Magic for MAGDRL", a benefit hafla with proceeds going to MAGDRL, a charity in North Carolina who invest a great deal of time and money rescuing and caring for unwanted and neglected Great Danes. |
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| 2008 | Back to Top |
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| Frozen Party |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 16, 2008 |
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| We performed again at Alexander's of Jacksonville for their annual Frozen party. Dressed all in white we were there to melt everything with our fire acts. |
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
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| Members of Vatra Gitana along with local musicians Eric Blohm (Click here to go to website) and Mr. Serious performed at the City Stage, located in downtown Wilmington, NC for the 7th Annual Arts Sensation. Tracey Varga delights the community again with this fantastic, artful fundraiser to benefit the Good Shepherd Center. |
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| 2007 | Back to Top |
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| The Day of the Dead |
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| Date: | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
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| We performed at Alexander's of Jacksonville for their Day of the Dead Halloween party. We got to belly dance, hula hoop, spin poi, and eat fire. |
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| Halloween Weekend @ The Juggling Gypsy Café |
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| Date: | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
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| We had our Annual Fire, Bellydance & Other Strange Acts show! Remember, YOU are part of the entertainment, along with lots of other Freaks in costume. The Show started around Dark thirty, with the FireShow at 9:30ish. |
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| Triboriginal |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 15, 2007 |
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Onça from Baraka Mundi invited us to perform a fire show at Triborignal.Triborginal is a wonderful dance, music and culture camp set in beautiful Black Mountain, NC. We performed several pieces including such fire tools as fire hoops, fire staffs, fireworks poi, fire fans, and fire umbrellas. Working with Creative Flame we also included fireworks staff, fire diablo, and fire devil sticks.
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 29, 2007 |
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| Members of Vatra Gitana performed at 7pm at the City Stage, located in downtown Wilmington, NC for the 6th Annual Arts Sensation. Tracey Varga delights the community again with this fantastic, artful fundraiser to benefit the Domestic Violence Shelter and Services. |
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| PCP Film Shoot/Trailer Party |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
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Several members of Vatra Gitana were invited to take part in a local movie production called the Port City Prostitute created by Slide Entertainment for Wilmington, NC's Final Cut 36 Hour Film Festival where it took Best Film and Best Cinematography. Slide Entertainment hosted a Trailer party to raise more funds for the production and again Vatra Gitana along with Creative Flame were invited to perform at the party.  |
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| 2006 | Back to Top |
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| Celebrate the Arts Festival |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 11, 2006 |
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| Once again, Vatra Gitana performed at Wilmington's Celebrate the Arts festival. This time the troupe performed a variety show involving many different props inlcuding, fans, zills, veil, sword, and contact juggling. We showed off the wonderful new costumes we have created. The festival is located at Wilmington's Hugh McRae park and Vatra Gitana peformed at 1:40PM. |
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| Halloweekend @ The Juggling Gypsy Café |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
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| What a great weekend at The Juggling Gypsy Café. Starting on Thursday, the 26th, with a Fire Jam. Friday, the 27th, was a fantastic gothic belly dance showcase. The dancers had a fabulous time donning gothic clothes and makeup and dancing to an unusual variety of music.Saturday, the 28th, Vatra Gitana and Creative Flame performed a half hour fire show. These talented artists spun fire staffs, fire hoops, fire fans, fire poi (watch for the fireworks!), and ate fire. |
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| Hafla |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 03, 2006 |
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| We were joined by area belly dancers at The Juggling Gypsy Café for a hafla. Hafla is an Arabic word meaning party or celebration. We descended upon the cafe following a show at the Level 5 City Stage, downtown Wilmington. Everyone enjoyed the wonderful costumes and guest belly dancers along with your own, local Vatra Gitana. |
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| Azalea Festival |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 09, 2006 |
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| Vatra Gitana performed at the 59th Annual North Carolina Azalea Festival, located in downtown Wilmington, NC. The Festival is a celebration of Wilmington’s exceptional artwork, gardens, rich history and culture. We were pleased to perform a piece to Jain Ganesha from the Dum Dum Project. |
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 02, 2006 |
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| Vatra Gitana was invited to once again perform at the City Stage, located in downtown Wilmington, NC for the 5th Annual Arts Sensation. This is a benefit concert for Domestic Violence Shelter and Services. This year the Arts Sensation was sponsored by Forward Motion Dance a non-profit organization located in Wilmington, NC. Vatra Gitana performed a piece to Jain Ganesha from the Dum Dum Project. |
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| Fertility Goddess Belly Dance Showcase |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 18, 2006 |
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The Juggling Gypsy Café hosted a bellydance showcase featuring our own lovely Europamoon.This month we celebrated The Day of the Fertility Goddess where each dancer represented a different fertility godess from around the word.
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| 2005 | Back to Top |
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| Celebrate the Arts Festival |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 13, 2005 |
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| On November 13th Vatra Gitana graced the stage at Wilmington's Celebrate the Arts festival. The festival is in it's fourth year and is picking up steam. The troupe performed to a Hungarian piece called "Mori Shej Sabina". This choreography is very gypsy influenced with lots of stomps and claps and plenty of hip shakin' too! Now Vatra Gitana will hit the studio for the winter to go intodevelopment for their spring show! Here we come 2006! |
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| Baraka Mundi Workshop, hosted by Vatra Gitana |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 05, 2005 |
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On November 5th we had a great time hosting our first seminar! Onça and Crystal from Baraka Mundi led us through 4 hours of body conditioning  and dance as we took it down to the floor and clickey clacked our way through the techniques of floor work and Turkish spoons! The vending offered a variety of things for us to buy and drool over! |
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| Eastern Winds Oasis presents Mesmera |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 09, 2005 |
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Vatra Gitana and a few members of Europamoon's belly dance class attended a delightful workshop by  Europamoon's own teacher, Mesmera! Following the seminar on Saturday the 8th, there was a performance at the Charleston County Masonic Center, located in Charleston, SC.This wonderful treat was sponsored by Eastern Winds Oasis. |
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| Arts Sensation |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 15, 2005 |
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| Vatra Gitana was asked to perform at a benefit for the Domestic Violence Shelter and Services, Inc. This performance was held on May 15 at 8 pm at City Stage, located in downtown Wilmington, NC. This benefitwas an evening of dance and music featuring local choreographers, dancers and musicians. |
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| Earth Day Celebration |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 23, 2005 |
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Vatra Gitana gave reverence to Mother Earth in their performance at the Earth Day Celebration at  Hugh MacRae Park located in Wilmington, NC. The troupe was joined by several other local and national talents at this all day event. This event was hosted by the Earth Day Alliance. |
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| Dance-a-lorus |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 02, 2005 |
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| Vatra Gitana participated in Wilmington's annual Cucalorus Film Festival for the Dance-a-lorus. The event was held at the City Stage located in downtown Wilmington, NC. |
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| 2004 | Back to Top |
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| Manipura Workshop, hosted by Baraka Mundi test |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 04, 2004 |
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| The troupe journeyed to Asheville, NC over the weekend of December 3-5 to attend the workshop taught by Manipura. The troupe performed their
candle dance in the evening at the Hafla hosted by Onca of Baraka Mundi. The experience of performing in front of the belly dance community was exciting for all members of Vatra Gitana. |
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| Celebrate the Arts Festival |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 13, 2004 |
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| Vatra Gitana performed twice, once in the early afternoon and again at the Parisian Picnic at night. The early performance was casual with some improvisation and a delight for the crowd. The troupe performed with fire in the evening, successfully warming up the chilly night. |
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| The Cape Fear Fair |
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| Date: | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
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| The Cape Fear Fair is an annual event that takes place in Wilmington, NC. Vatra Gitana gladly accepted the invitation to perform at this year's event and felt right at home among the carnival-like atmosphere of the Cape Fear Fair. However, the bright lights were no match for the fire and belly dancing show they put on as the closing act of the Entertainment Stage. |
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| All Hallows Eve Party @ The Juggling Gypsy Café |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 30, 2004 |
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| It was a night of theatrics and fun at The Juggling Gypsy Café and things only got more exciting when Vatra Gitana treated all the costumed attendees with a fire and belly dancing show at midnight. It was a memorable evening for both the audience and the performers. |
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| Cinimatique: "The Story of the Weeping Camel" |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
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| Vatra Gitana entertained Thalian Hall's guests with choreography reminiscent of a ritual dance they imagined to have been performed by nomadic tribes of the Silk Road. The Juggling Gypsy Café provided catering for this event. |
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| Wilmington River Fest |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 02, 2004 |
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Riverfest is an annual street festival  in downtown Wilmington, NC featuring entertainment all weekend. Vatra Gitana was honored to perform at the Multi-Cultural
Stage this year, once in the afternoon and again with a feature fire show in the evening.The afternoon performance was their imaginative rendition of what the dance might have been like centuries ago. During evening performance Vatra Gitana was joined by 4 fire-staff spinners.The troupe also presented their first performance with fire-fingers. The show was a huge success, drawing over 400 people. |
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| WHQR Fundraiser, The Neo-Hippie Love Fest |
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| Date: | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
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| At this event, the troupe unveiled their first choreography with the element of fire. With candles balanced on their palms the troupe entranced the crowd. This event was held as a benefit for Wilmington's public radio station,WHQR 91.3 FM. |
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| Earth Day Celebration |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 24, 2004 |
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| Vatra Gitana gave reverence to Mother Earth in their performance at the Earth Day Celebration at Hugh Macrae Park located in Wilmington, NC. The troupe was joined by several other local and national talents at this all day event. This event was hosted by the Earth Day Alliance. |
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| Cucalorus Film Festival |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 27, 2004 |
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| Vatra Gitana's first public performance was at Wilmington's annual Cucalorus Film Festival before the screening of the film "Bubba Ho-tep".The event was held at the Community Arts Center located in downtown Wilmington, NC. |
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