Mirage Belly Dance Troupe

I know, over 40,000 of you in the Austin area tried to get a ticket to the debate this Thursday evening, and most of you will be sitting home, feeling excluded and unlucky because you couldn’t score admission to that event.  Well, Mirage feels your pain and wants you to know that we have unlimited tickets available for this Thursday’s show.  That’s right, no waiting…and no debating.  Consider us the ‘all inclusive’ candidates, who’s platform really is a stage (with a pretty backdrop) and we’ll do everything to get your vote for the best Belly Dance Show in Austin.

Now, in case you’re wondering about traffic at UT this week, don’t worry…we’re on the other side of campus and you can easily find parking in the garage located at 24th and San Antonio (next to Whole Earth Provision).  It’s well lit, close to the Texas Union Showroom and only costs $3 after 6 p.m. each evening.  If you look carefully you can follow the trail of coins, rhinestones and glitter right to our stage.

If you worried about missing the debate please remember, you can TiVo them, but you can’t TiVo us.  Really, this is an important distinction…if you miss the show, you can’t see replays, you hear people debate over which dancer they loved the most (well, this may still happen).  But truly, come watch us dance and trust in the fact that the news media will make sure you’re up to date on any debate topics.

Okay, enough of the logistics….we’re excited to have Midnight Breeze from Wimberly as our guests for this show, in addition to the lovely Elizabeth.  The lovely ladies from Wimberly will be bringing seven dancers with them and performing two sets in our show, so you really do get two troupes in one this week!

The show is always free, starts at 7:30 p.m. so mark your calendar, hit the record button on your home electronics…and exercise your right to watch some of the hottest belly dancing in town.!

Our next show, February 7 is stuck right in the middle of several important dates.  We’re a couple of days past Super Tuesday primaries and Fat Tuesday (and the following Ash Wednesday) and our show coincides with the Chinese New Year (it’s Year of the Rat if you didn’t know).  So, choosing some cute theme to play off of this week was tough because for the life of me I couldn’t associate belly dancing with presidential elections, lent or rats…so think of this show as the lead in for a sweet, romantic, sizzling Valentine’s season.

Our guests this week include Marlena and students from Desert Passion’s Middle Eastern Dance Company.  To close the show, Mirage is setting the stage on fire with an exciting new choreography to “Entrance of the Stars”.  We had a preview of the number last weekend and got rave reviews.  This week the full ensemble will be here performing, so come early, get a good seat and prepare to be wooed and romanced by all the lovely dancers on our stage.

 The show is always free (tips are appreciated though) and starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Texas Union Showroom (24th and Guadalupe).  $3 parking is available after 6 p.m. at the garage located at 25th and San Antonio (next to Whole Earth Provision)