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The Top 13 Essential Belly Dance Movements for Beginners

Learn the 13 most important foundational movements of belly dancing! Once you master these, you will have what it takes to begin creating all the spicy, snakey, silky, smooth moves you see in those amazing belly dancing videos. It won’t be easy, but don’t give up. Rome wasn’t built in a day! Good dancing takes lots of time and practice. Keep practicing and remember to relax and enjoy the experience.

Disclaimer: The videos below can be used as an introduction to basic techniques, as well as a resource for students taking LIVE classes. However, no video can replace the value of a qualified LIVE instructor. Videos can’t give you feedback (yet) or ensure that you are performing the techniques safely and correctly! So if you haven’t already, find an experienced and respected instructor in your area to help guide you along your belly dance journey.

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1. Weighted Hip Lifts and Drops

2. Un-weighted Hip Lifts and Drops


3. Knee Shimmy

4. Head Slide

5. Shoulder Rolls

6. Snake Arms: an alternating wave of each arm, right arm, then left arm

7. Ribcage Slides: side to side, forward and back

8. Hip Slides: side to side, forward and back

9. Chest Lift and Drop

10. Hip/Pelvic Tilt Forward and Back

11. Ribcage Twist

12. Hip Twist

13. Full Body Undulations: Down and Up/Reverse

What is Belly dance? | DanceUs.

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Belly dance is the western name for Raqs Sharki a type of middle eastern dance.  It is a dance that is traditionally solo form and is improved with the name it referring to the torso isolations.  When your hips are moving, you have a natural shimmy to your midsection refers to the western called name. Every region in the middle east has different look to the dance and costumes can vary in style.  The dance has boomed in the 2000s and has grown to global portions of popularity for fitness and as an art.

The movements found in Belly Dance/Raqs Sharki:

Fluid movements like water
Flowing in and out of movements using 8s/infinity loops or circles with your hips generally.   This is normally used for interpreting melodic lines in the music. These moves depend upon abdominal muscle control. 

Strong movements 
Sharp and quick bumps with the hips. These movements are use to emphasize the music. Hip drops, hip lifts, Vertical hips up and down, hip twists, belady step to name a few. Also you can you upper torso in movements, ribcage drops or lifts and shoulder accents. 

Shimmes   
This is a continuous fast shake of the hips or shoulder.  It adds texture to the movement.  Shimming can vary in size and in execution of the step. These different shimming can be used as a layer in a movement to further the interoperation of the music.

The influence in western dancing styles has introduced with different kinds of level changes, traveling steps, and turns like the arabesque.  More modernly the Egyptian style has put in a lot more high kicks and modern dance movements as the dance evolves. 

It is know a folk and social dance a lot like samba is to brazil. And as a performance art aspect depending on who you talk to. When it is in its social dance context, ordinary families and friends dance parties and wedding but not as a professional dancers.  These people are normally dress without proper dance attire just having fun. It is in more conserved families and areas that would have separate rooms for the party for men and women.  Belly dancing is not the only dance in the middle east.  There is Dabke that is typically done in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. In the Arabian Gulf countries also known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) they also have their kind of dancing called the Raqs Al Nashal.  Each style of dance has their own drum rhythms.  

The form that you see by professional belly dancers has its roots in the social dancing but has evolved into a stage craftsmanship, like Samba. The costumes have changed to show the movements better and western dances are often mixed in. Some of the middle eastern people do not considered belly dance or any performance art to be respectable base on religion believes.  Women artists especially have this problem.  To be seen in pubic while dancing and letting everyone watch you is seen as forbidden or in Arabic haram.      

Akon - Belly Dancer (Bananza) translation

Akon - Belly Dancer (Bananza) Akon - Belly Dancer (Have Fun)
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Yo, excuse me, beg your pardon girl Hey, sorry, sorry girl,
Do you have any idea what you starting girl Do you even know what you're calling, girl,
You got me tingling, come to me mingling You make me shiver, you come up to me, start a conversation,
Steppin' off lookin' bootylicious and jingling Then you move away, look sexy, shake your ass,
When you walk, I see it baby girl When you walk I notice baby
When you talk, I believe it baby girl When you say I believe baby
I like that, thick-petite n' pretty I like your graceful attractive body with juicy curves,
Little touch is a ditty Touching you is like a light song,
love to work the kitty like purr I would like to caress this kisul so that it purrs.
She loves to stir it up She likes to move her body
I can hear her purring up I can hear her purr
Cuz she's the type that'll get arousy of Because she's the type to get excited
Get you excited and call her boyfriend up Turns you on and calls his boyfriend
What's the man without the plan B What is a man if there is no plan B,
We can meet up at the Huddle House house for the TV We can meet at the cafe and watch TV,
So stand by like a buddy pass So stand aside and wait for a free ticket,
While I watch this beautiful thing shake that ass While I watch this hottie shake her ass.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Girl, I must say you the flyest thang in here Girl, I must say that you are the most luxurious here,
You're so hot we gon need some rain in here You're so hot we'll need rain here
Type to make ex-gangstas bang in here You are the type to make ex-gangsters party here,
Girl you could do anything you want in here Girl, you could do anything here,
Clown if you want to, frown if you want to Goof off if you want, frown if you want,
You ain't even gotta drop down if you want to You don't even have to dance to the floor if you want,
Cuz I'd rather see you shake it standin' Because I prefer to watch you shake your butt while standing
Either way you do it girl you look outstandin' No matter how you do it, girl, you look stunning.
And now you got me spending And now you made me spend money,
The way you got that body bendin' You tilt that body like that
An ass like that girl, you gotta be kiddin' Girl, your ass is so incredible,
And we goin' to church next day repentant And the next day we will go to church to repent,
Lap dancing for my FA crew You lap dance with my homies
Slide it over to boo cuz he wants some too Switch to my friend because he wants it too,
Up in the VIP with no fee We are in the VIP area for free,
Blessing you with the gee even tho we gettin’ it free, so We'll make you happy with a thousand bucks even though it's free for us, so
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Girl shake your body-body Girl shake your body
With somebody-body With someone,
Whatever you do, don't break your body-body Whatever you do, don't hurt your body,
After the party After party
Grab a hottie hottie I grab a sexy baby
In the back seat of your Maserati-rati In the back seat of your Maserati,
Jiggle jiggle it to the left, ah-ah-ah Shake your ass to the left,
Jiggle jiggle it to the right, ah-ah-ah Shake your ass to the right,
Jiggle it to the front, then jiggle it to the back Shake your butt forward then back
And jiggle jiggle it all all night And shake your butt all night.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.
Hey ladies drop it down Hey lady, dance lower,
Just want to see you touch the ground I want to see you touch the ground,
Don't be shy girl go bananza Don't be shy, girl, go all out,
Shake ya body like a belly dancer Shake your body like you're doing a belly dance.

Belly dancing will increase breasts and save you from premature birth

You have probably heard more than once that belly dancing helps you lose weight quickly. But how else are incendiary swaying of the hips to the beat of oriental music useful for your body?

Are you tired of everyday monotony? Turn on oriental music, tie a scarf around your hips and just move to the beat of the music - your body will tell you the movements.

Feel the energy pulsing through your arms, waist, hips - it's such an explosion of sensations. The body immediately revives.

Imagine what a real oriental belly dance will do to you.

In belly dancing, we use the stomach, hips, arms, and back in the same way. It is especially useful for the spine. Since you are dancing in a relaxed state, without sudden movements and force load, the back becomes flexible.

Thanks to belly dancing:

  • pain in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine decreases
  • constant headaches disappear, joints become stronger
  • the movements of the arms and shoulder girdle in the dance strengthen the pectoral muscles, which helps to maintain an excellent shape of the chest for many years
  • the deep muscles of the abdominal and small pelvis are trained, which are involved in childbirth

Doctors say that belly dancing is a beautiful prevention of premature and complicated births.

Give yourself just 30 minutes. Dancing normalizes blood circulation in the pelvis, the intestines work well. This means that a beautiful complexion, a beautiful gait and majestic posture, healthy joints and elastic muscles are provided to you.

How to dance

On the Internet you will find many free video tutorials, and we will show you little tricks on how to prepare for this magical dance.

  1. Tie a colorful scarf around your hips. Having fixed the hips in this way, and following the swinging of the pendants on the belt (scarf), you will be able to feel and control the movements much better.
  2. Raise your hands up and begin the exercise by clapping your hands or snapping your fingers.
  3. It's good if you have a big mirror at home. After learning the movements, perform them in front of a mirror. So you can see the dance in your performance and track down mistakes. If there is no large mirror, then ask someone to film you.

Don't get upset if some moves don't work out. You dance for yourself and for your health!

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