Hi Tribe,
I'm posting a response I gave over on Tabu's tribe because I think it's very important for our community to think long and hard on this. Supporting each others events is very important as long as it's done fairly and everyone gets paid, unlike the IBDC. We have to remember that this is a community, and noone ownes Las Vegas Belly Dance and the right to be the only dancer, the only promoter, the only vendor, costumer, musician, etc, etc here is my response:

"Having taught workshops all over the intesive and tribal massive don't have to be the only events in town, and I think it's wrong to discourage any of our local people from putting on events!! Yes, Alex made serious errors,but it helped the intensive that year, and for sure this year because people at rakkasah who had signed up for the intensive mistook it for the IBDC, and they were excited, so we got a lot more business at the intensive due to the IBDC.

Should he pay up, hell yes, I'm one of the people who hasn't been paid, but a lot of out of state dancers want to see it happen again, and as long as he schedules it at a different time of year I think it's fine.

If anyone schedules a big event that doesn't overlap the tribal massive and the intensive then I think we should welcome it!!!! When I was teaching my workshop in San Jose, there were 2 other events going on the same weekend. Like Delilah said, there is enough for everybody if we just wish each other well and support as much as we can.....I think it's called good Karma, the flip side of that is what happened in Las Vegas in the 80's, certian teachers and promoters thought they OWNED Vegas, and anyone who did something on their own was an outcast. It was soooooo ugly, everyone had to choose sides, it's all crap, I won't ever be a part of a community that supports that!!!! "