A fun and compact class to learn essential belly dance movements
Belly dancing is a beautiful and ancient middle eastern dance form. In this course you will learn the essential moves for all belly dance styles.
What you’ll learn
- Belly dance fundamentals.
- Tips for better posture and isolations.
- Basic belly dance moves.
- Shimmies, turns, waves and circles.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 4 lectures • 3min.
- Basics: hips and chest movements –> 4 lectures • 5min.
- Walking with hip movements –> 3 lectures • 4min.
- Circles –> 4 lectures • 5min.
- Shimmies –> 4 lectures • 5min.
- Waves –> 3 lectures • 7min.
- Turns –> 4 lectures • 5min.
- Hip variations –> 4 lectures • 6min.
- Cross steps and graceful arm movements –> 3 lectures • 5min.
- Putting it all together –> 3 lectures • 5min.
- Conclusion –> 3 lectures • 1min.
Requirements
Belly dancing is a beautiful and ancient middle eastern dance form. In this course you will learn the essential moves for all belly dance styles.
Our curriculum is designed to go over basic movements in sections, with practice music at th end of each section. You will start with basic posture and fundamental isolations of body parts, where you will learn to move your hips and chest. Next, you will learn to walk with your hips and add kicks. For smooth movements, you will learn how to draw circles with your chest, hands and hips. After learning shoulder and hip shimmies, you will learn to do graceful body and arm waves. Up next, you will learn to turn with a focus point with two methods. After learning more hip variations, cross steps and graceful wrist movements are next. Finally, you will learn to listen to the music and put it all together in a choreography at the end of the course.
This class not only helps you to learn belly dancing, but also includes transferrable isolations and moves for other dance styles such as latin dances and afro dance. You don’t need anything but a mirror and an optional scarf for your hips. Are you ready?