What if we're Bigger in St. Louis?

So, since everyone keeps yelling about getting my My Space account fixed up, I finally did, and added a few people along the way. In the process, I stumbled over a fact that...well, you try it, if you can login to MySpace. Search for "Belly Dance" under Affiliations for Networking , then try, say "Ballet". Or "Samba". Or whatever.

Even if you count in the scary guys with bellydance as a "Dance/Performance" option (WTF?), we still have a fuck-ton of dancers within the MySpace system, compared to other forms. And elsewhere; Belly Dancers pretty much took over Tribe.net.

This hints at an intriguing look at the number of people who feel "connected" to our dance form. We're not small. We're all over, and we're growing, but no one seems to know the numbers. We can get a good est. on almost any other dance form, save raqs, and no one seems to care.

But... if you think about it, think about what areas of your city have no dancers, and might be an opportunity for dancers to find new gigs, new students, new friends and comrades...well, it begins to make more and more sense.