Basic Production for Belly Dance » Distribution

Summer special price and your comments wanted!

roj — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:18:07 +0000

Through August, 2007, Basic Production for Belly Dance will be available for $30. Before I get into my fall writing mood, if you’ve got a copy, please send your feedback and comments. I’m considering working on both an updated version of Basic Production for Belly Dance and a follow-up (Intermediate Production for Belly Dance?). Your comments will help guide that decision.

Now available at House of Musical Traditions

roj — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:42:22 +0000

Drop by and pick up your copy of Basic Production for Belly Dance at House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, MD. If you get there fast enough, your copy might even be signed.

The books are in

roj — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:58:00 +0000

The frist print run of Basic Production for Belly Dance arrived today; anyone that’s been waiting (for their autographed copy or whatever) better get in touch soon and let me know how to get yours into your hands…

Help promote Basic Production for Belly Dance

roj — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:18:30 +0000

If you love the book (and I hope you do…) or just want to help spread the word, I’ve made it as easy as possible to help promote Basic Production for Belly Dance. Just follow this link, copy the code provided to your website/profile/blog/journal/etc. Only your own webspaces, please! Please don’t spam on my behalf.

Your efforts are very appreciated.

Basic Production for Belly Dance now for sale!

roj — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:19:01 +0000

Come and get it… here (or click the “Buy BPBD!” button at the top of the page).

Basic Production for Belly Dance is a 144-page introduction and guide to basic production with emphasis on belly dance and belly dancers. I’ve gone to some lengths (I won’t say great lengths, greatness is reserved to the judgement of my audience) to make the book approachable, accessible and educational. I hope it blends my life’s experience with production work of various sorts with the last several years of belly dance-show observation in a constructive and useful way. I hope I met my own goal – to create an guide to basic production – something to get people started producing good shows with the dance and dancers they love, even if they have no production background at all. I also hope I’ve managed to avoid writing a text book. Finally, I hope you’ll forgive my sense of humor buried in some of the pages.

It seems like a really long couple months to execute this project, but in reality, time (in classic “show time” form) has flown. Thanks to everyone that has assisted, read, commented, encouraged or otherwise helped bring this project to completion.

I hope that this is a good start on a path to elevating and advancing belly dance production across the [english-speaking] world (i only wish there were enough demand to offer the book in translation ). In the near future, i’ll have a workbook companion available (step, the second).

So, thanks again… and best wishes for your production efforts!

Changing distribution options – Suggest your favorite vendors.

roj — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:38:36 +0000

Once upon a time, I had hoped to make Basic Production for Belly Dance available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other classic online (and brick-and-mortar) book retailers. Unfortunately, the paper quality and printing options available within that distribution mechanism just aren’t going to meet my standards. So, what this means to you, as potential readers of Basic Production for Belly Dance is that I need to find a network of belly dance vendors and/or handle sales myself.

Please take a minute to suggest your favorite belly dance vendors (I know you have some!), so I can at least start a dialogue with them about carrying the book. If they’re specialists (say, they only sell costumes), and a book wouldn’t fit well within their current inventory, you can still suggest them, but let me know that’s the case…