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Goddess Enabler Melodia of Melodia Designs – 069

Goddess Enabler Melodia of Melodia Designs – 069

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 Melodia of Melodia Designs has been designing amazing dance wear and comfortable-AND-sexy street clothes for over 20 years. But do you know about her intriguing dance past with the Belly Dance Superstars and Urban Tribal Dance Company? Listen and find out! Melodia has been adorning and accenting the beauty in fusion belly dancers and more beautiful movers with her oh so lovely Melodia Designs clothing for almost 20 years. Melodia has been adorning and accenting the beauty in fusion belly dancers and more beautiful movers with her oh so lovely Melodia Designs clothing for almost 20 years. You probably either own or are coveting your own “Melo’s”, as we like to call Melodia’s textile creations, but not too many of us also know the belly dance life of Melodia Medley. In this podcast, we’ll hear about Melodia’s start as a dancer in a Urban Tribal Dance Co with Heather Stants and Mardi Love, her first memory of Jill Parker, and her year touring the USA with the Belly Dance Superstars. And Melodia loves to talk about festivals and food and music in addition to wearable art, so this is going to be a very fun interview. Melodia Designs website Melodia Designs on Instagram Melodia Designs on Facebook Touring with the Belly Dance Superstars I think that was maybe 2004 or 2005. It’s hard to find video or photo documentation of that era, but we traveled 60 cities in 64 days across the U S and Canada. Riding on a shuttle bus with 16 dancers and a crew with an ex race car driver as the chauffeur. We would show up at a venue in the evening, roll out of the tour bus, do a quick tech rehearsal, get dressed, do our show, pack up, get back in the bus and drive halfway to our next location. So many of us refer to that as the hell tour. Our saving grace though, was the talent. I had the blessing of dancing with Rachel Brice and Sharon Kihara. We kind of were the “tribal girls”. And Jalina she’s so amazing. It was quite the adventure. https://bellydancebodyandsoul.com/jillina/ And I even played hooky one night from tour. So I could take a flight into Miami and dance with rabbit on the moon at the ultra music Fest. https://youtu.be/_cClIlpazdY We had shower shelves suction cupped to the windows of the bus when we were on tour. https://bellydancebodyandsoul.com/kaeshi-chai/ “When I put on a pair of Melodia Designs pants, I see I am wearing art.” – Melodia’s mom Alicia: When did you realize that you wanted to make amazing clothes for dancers and fire performers and other beautiful movers and dance vicariously through your clientele? Ever since I was a kid I loved playing dress up, and I would often put on little circus performances in my living room. And my grandmother had very elegant taste and she would give me her hand me down night gowns and robes to play in. I often would up cycle them with like a stapler and safety pins and turn it into some sort of princess gown and fly around the living room. So I guess I was destined to make clothes with performance in mind. And then after high school, I ended up working retail and I met this really beautiful clothing designer when I was working at the shop. And when she came in to show her collection, I whispered in her ear, “If you ever want someone to work with you, I would love to help.” And sure enough, she did end up hiring me. And I ended up doing everything from sales to running errands for production, to trade shows, packing orders and folding inventory. So that was a great first step towards getting into fashion. And eventually they closed down shop, and I was left with a turning point in life where I wasn’t sure what I was going to do next. And it just felt like the perfect time to start my own line. And then in 2000 I discovered belly dance and I turned my focus towards making dance wear. So it was kind of like combining both of my passions for clothing and dance into one. And here I am still doing it 20 years later. Alicia: That was like the heyday for belly dance in the US in the early 2000s. Yeah. I think I showed up on the scene at the perfect time. Alicia: Definitely. And you were dancing with Marti Love and Heather Stants? Dancing with Urban Tribal Dance Company It’s amazing how many leaps forward we’ve made with like cinematography and posting video. I look back at those old videos and they’re so blotchy. I’m pretty sure most of the old videos that are uploaded to YouTube were all done on the little handheld camcorder and then converted from videotape into some sort of digital format. There’s very little video footage of the early days, which makes it kind of magical. You had to be there to see it. Melodia’s first performance with Urban Tribal Dance Company: https://youtu.be/yWCrfHgTlLg Heather Stants talking about he UTDC: https://youtu.be/rjZ07RGMXTE Melodia Designs Fabrics Alicia: I love the Elsa pocket leggings Oracle print so much that I bought two pairs of the same pants so I could just wear them almost every ...
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