The
Gilded Serpent presents...
Bobbie Giarratana
Bobbie
Giarratana has been involved with theater production and administration
for many years throughout the entire Bay Area, including Asian American
Theater, Luna Sea Women's Performance Project, as well as
independent film making and mainstream commercial production. Her most
recent contribution to dance has been providing reviews for the Gilded
Serpent website. She also regularly supports the arts through her audience
dollars. She is a potter and her vocation is in real estate sales in the
Berkeley and East Bay area. Ms. Giarratana has been a dance student her
entire child and adult life, and she discovered Belly Dance quite by Kismet
about five years ago. She has been shimmying and moving sensuously with
the strains of all types of Middle Eastern music ever since. Ms. G. has
been a performer at both public and private parties under a Middle Eastern
stage name, preferring to write her honest and forthright reviews under
her given name.
[Editor's note: Ms. Giarratana has gracefully, and with good humor,
pardoned The Gilded Serpent for publishing a SPOOF BIOGRAPHY, previously
seen here. The spoof was, unfortunately, misunderstood by a handful of
strangely gullible readers who wished to believe that Ms. G. actually
collects nail clippings and indulges herself in other untoward activities.
The Serpent believed that readers would recognize the spoof when reading
that Ms. G. could hold her breath for six hours underwater while playing
finger cymbals, but apparently the Serpent under-estimated the powers
of belief in the written word! The Serpent apologizes to those misled
readers whose grand and amazing image of Ms. G. has now been dashed upon
the rocks of political correctness and decorum. Furthermore, The Serpent
promises to be more correct, if not serious, in future presentations.]
Articles
on Gilded Serpent by or about Bobbie:
10-20-02 Visions
of Delight, A History of Belly Dance in the United States Reviewed
by Bobbie Giarratana & Susie Poulelis
Photos of MECDA performers & layout by Susie, Third Annual Bay Area MECDA
Showcase
11-23-01 The
Renaissance Pleasure Faire: Bad Jokes and Good Shows by Bobbie
Giarratana, photos by Susie Poulelis
Fighting
accusations that I live in a cave...
6-21-01 Alice
is Alive and Well in Oakland, California! by
Bobbie Giarratana
During the auditions,
there was an ongoing dialogue among the panelists concerning guidelines
for
festival performances; cultural accuracy vs. artistic expression became an issue.
3-01"Where's
The Hook
When We Need It?"Review
by Bobbie Giarratana Photos
by Susie Poulelis
Desert
Dance Festival
2000San Jose,
California
3-17-01 Dunia's
response to a review by Bobbie
Giarratana, titled," Where's The Hook "
"My dear: some of
these people have zills older than you."
3-14-01 Nabila
Metwali On Tour! Review by Bobbie Giarrantana and Susie Poulelis,
"The Christmas Eve performance was exceptional, another fantastic
night at El Valenciano!"
Don't miss these
photos!
Rakassah
Dressing Room Talk by Bobbie Giarratana of San Francisco, CA
The Mysterious PERFORMERS'
DRESSING ROOM at Rakassah, Otherwise Known as the
Women's Restroom... A Photo Essay
