I am the musician here, and I watch the dancers very closely so that I can adjust the music for their movements, etc.. I've seen a lot of mishaps. The dancer's shall remain nameless (for obvious reasons).

#1. This happened during a larger group number at The Lafayette Grill. A very wonderful and experienced dancer was the principal in a group number. She was wearing a black and silver coin bra with flimsy sequin straps. One of the group dancers went into a spin with a dance belt being used as a veil (you know, a heavy coined dance belt) at the same time the principal dancer went into a spin in the opposite direction. The coined veil snagged the back of the coin bra and ripped it open along with the two shoulder straps and as the principal dancer finished her spin, she was topless. (We promised her that nobody saw anything, but later she found out that we all lied and has dealt with it)

#2. Group tribal number on a stage at a performance at a college. The dancer's costumes didn't come in time for dress rehearsal so they only wore them first at the night of the performance. Very beautiful black and gold dance belts with long coined tassles out of a nice heavy coin. By the time of the second spin, the dancers all had become so tangled up with each other that they had to shimmy off stage en mass in a huddle.

#3. At a performance in brooklyn at a hookah lounge. A wonderful dancer was dancing a classic Egyptian rapid shimmy walk towards a table of Egyptian men , and her very heavy coined skirt opened and dropped to the floor with a thud. Not wanting any panty lines showing, she wore no undergarments. (lots of cell phone pictures were snapped by the audience members)

#4. At a performance in a library on Long Island a group of students were doing a group sword dance..... and yes one of the swords fell and did stick one of the other students in the foot. OUCH!