Belly Dance Essentials For Beginners

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


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