DragonCon!

Dragoncon is one of the largest S-F/Fantasy/Pop Culture conventions in the southeast. I've been attending (since it's in my backyard) for almost 10 years. It happens every year on Labor Day Weekend and is one hell of a party!!!

If you like to people-watch it is the extravaganza of people-watching! Beats Mardi Gras in New Orleans any day of the week (I'm from Louisiana). You can see everything from high Opera costumes to cardboard box leggo costumes!

On most nights they host a dance/drum circle. It started out being very small and very quiet and then it moved out to the pool and got crazy and then it moved back indoors and was small and quiet and now it's held in one of the larger ballrooms and is crazy. At any given time - once the drummers get going - you can hear three or more different rhythms being played as you dance around the circle. This can make for some interesting transitions!

Everyone comes to dance - belly dancers, club dancers, goth dancers, drunken gay pirates, fuzzies, jedi, - you name it they will probably show up at the drum circle. Some years I make it and some I don't - this year it's not scheduled to even start until mid-night.

There is also dance and costume tracks held in the Silk Road panels and a dance expo on Sunday in one of the smaller ballrooms - thank heavens! Last year the dance expo was overflowing and we definitely needed a bigger space.

In spite of the fact that Dragoncon is not a belly dance convention, there is plenty of belly dance stuff going on!

If you happen to make it there - look me up! If you can find me ......