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I'm Sadie. I'm from Denver, Colorado, originally from Wisconsin, which is very interesting.

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So sometimes when I'm dancing, people will say, you know, expecting to hear, oh, where are you from?

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They want to hear something exotic, somewhere from the Middle East.

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And I go, yes, I'm from somewhere far away in land and time.

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And then they say, where?

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And I say, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

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I've been pretty much involved in some type of physical sports my whole life,

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whether it's gymnastics mostly, swimming, other forms of dance.

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So I really love movement and moving my body.

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And just started taking classes.

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My first introduction to belly dance was classes.

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I don't think that I actually ever even really saw a belly dancer before I took classes.

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It just sounded interesting.

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It just popped in my head, and I said, hmm, belly dance.

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My first teachers were from Denver, Joy Nan and the late Phaedra Amira.

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They were really good teachers.

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They were both very much strict on the technician, like the technical part of the dancing.