Belly Dance Essentials For Beginners

A fun and compact class to learn essential belly dance movements

What you'll learn

Belly dance fundamentals

Tips for better posture and isolations

Basic belly dance moves

Shimmies, turns, waves and circles

Requirements

No prior dance experience needed.

A basic scarf, comfortable clothes, a mirror is sufficient.

Description

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?

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome!

Lecture 2 Belly dance: what is it?

Lecture 3 Clothing in belly dancing

Lecture 4 Belly dancing in the 21st century

Section 2: Basics: hips and chest movements

Lecture 5 Posture

Lecture 6 Basic hip movements

Lecture 7 Basic chest movements

Lecture 8 Practice hips and chest basics with music

Section 3: Walking with hip movements

Lecture 9 Walking with hip movements

Lecture 10 Hip drops with kicks

Lecture 11 Practice walking with hip movements with music

Section 4: Circles

Lecture 12 Chest circles

Lecture 13 Hand circles

Lecture 14 Hip circles

Lecture 15 Practice circles with music

Section 5: Shimmies

Lecture 16 Shoulder shimmies

Lecture 17 Hip shimmies: variation 1

Lecture 18 Hip shimmies: variation 2

Lecture 19 Practice shimmies with music

Section 6: Waves

Lecture 20 Body waves: up and down

Lecture 21 Arm waves: out and in

Lecture 22 Practice body and arm waves with music

Section 7: Turns

Lecture 23 Turning with a focus point

Lecture 24 Turning with a leg cross

Lecture 25 Turning with upper body

Lecture 26 Practice turns with music

Section 8: Hip variations

Lecture 27 Twist

Lecture 28 Infinity

Lecture 29 Maya

Lecture 30 Practice hip variations with music

Section 9: Cross steps and graceful arm movements

Lecture 31 Cross steps with hip drops and kicks

Lecture 32 Moving arms gracefully

Lecture 33 Practice cross steps and graceful arm movements with music

Section 10: Putting it all together

Lecture 34 Listening to the music

Lecture 35 Putting it together in a choreography

Lecture 36 Full choreography with music

Section 11: Conclusion

Lecture 37 Course summary

Lecture 38 What's next?

Lecture 39 Your feedback

Beginner belly dancers who want to start their belly dance journey,Beginner dancers who want to learn fundamental isolations