How to belly dance instructions
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
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how to learn belly dancing at home
Do you want to learn how to dance belly dance correctly? It is enough to learn a few basic movements and add a special mood to them. We have compiled detailed instructions on how to learn belly dancing so that you can dance no worse than a Colombian pop star.
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How to learn to dance a beautiful oriental belly dance at home? Of course, it's not easy.
Nevertheless, it is easier to dance it at home than any other dance style. Especially if you have never been into dancing before.
Basic movements
- Starting position
Stand with your feet together and your arms at your sides. Then slightly bend your knees and raise your chest - this is the starting position for starting any movement in the belly dance. For smooth movements in the dance, you need to tighten the muscles of the lower abdomen and engage the pelvis.
- Hip lift or shimmy
Bend both knees. Then straighten your right leg to lift your right thigh up. Then lift the pelvis up to the chest, while the upper body should not be involved. The heels must not be lifted off the ground during this movement. When you "pull" up your right hip, lower it and repeat the movement with your left. Namely, straighten your left leg and lift your left hip up.
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- Fast Pace Hip Lift
Repeat hip lift on both sides at a faster pace. Do not pause - first lift the right thigh up, and then smoothly - the left. At an accelerated pace, the hips will swing quickly from side to side - now you know how to perform the shimmy movement.
- Hip Drop
Start in the starting position with the right foot on the floor and the left foot slightly extended, about a few inches forward with the heel raised. Then bend both knees and keep your chest and arms up. Then straighten your left leg, lift your left thigh and immediately lower it to the level of your right thigh. At the same time, keep your right leg bent during the movement. Next, repeat the mini-bunch at a fast pace so that it looks smooth, without pauses and breaks. nine0003
- Belly
How to quickly learn belly dancing at home? Easy, the main thing is not to miss a single basic movement, including the “tummy”.
Starting position - feet are on the floor, the upper body is raised, and relaxed arms are at the sides. Then slightly bend your knees and tighten the muscles of your upper abdomen, pulling them in. Then relax your stomach and tense only the muscles of the lower abdomen. Consistently alternate, pulling in the lower, then the upper press. Repeat the movement smoothly and without pauses. nine0003
- Try a breast lift
The last basic movement that will help you understand how to dance belly dance correctly. The starting position is a raised chest, arms are located on the sides, legs are together, and the feet are on the floor. Next, we pull the chest up to the end so that the shoulder blades seem to slide along the back. Then lower your chest back down. Repeat the link at a fast pace, while alternately contracting the abdominal muscles.
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Oriental dance will help not only lose weight, but also cope with various pains.
- Back and Joint Pain
Gentle movements increase the flow of synovial fluid (natural lubricant) in the joints, and also tone the back muscles, which improves posture and prevents back pain.
- Help in losing weight
How to learn belly dancing at home and lose weight? Easy - one hour session will help burn up to 300 calories. nine0003
- Preparing for childbirth
Belly dancing tones the abdominal and pelvic muscles involved in childbirth.
- Against stress
Oriental belly dance is not only beautiful, but also healing. The dance feels like a session of physical and psychological relaxation.
- Period Pain
Soothing dance bands help reduce pelvic congestion, which improves circulation and relieves PMS pain.
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Learn how to dance belly dance (oriental dance), quickly, easily and simply!!! | Dance school "Impromptu"
How to learn to dance belly dance (oriental dance) quickly, easily and simply!!!
Belly dance - what is it? One of the types of dance, the ability to attract a man or a woman's developed body? I have been studying belly dance for over three years. I can say with confidence that this is not the time for this type of dance.
In my life I have already comprehended many dance styles (latina, salsa, classical choreography, modern dances, etc.), but the current series of events led me to the Impromptu sports dance club specifically for belly dancing. I laughed and giggled, imagining myself as an oriental dancer, and believed that with my level of dance training, learning to dance “some kind of belly dance” would be easy for me. But to my deepest surprise, I could not do almost anything! nine0003
Now, belly dancing has become for me not only a hobby, a fun pastime, but a way of life, everything has changed: posture, gait, lifestyle, appearance. I am proud to learn belly dance and this thought is in my every move. It is zealous to realize that someone is experiencing the same sensations, and for someone, belly dancing has become life, as it is for me. Gorgeous costumes, seductive forms, sophisticated movements and the admiration of the audience - all this is a belly dance. Oriental dance reveals in every woman a beauty - a temptress. Belly dance came from the East, perhaps that is why it attracts our Russian women so much, who get a lot of pleasure both from the learning process and from the dance itself.
Everything that is said about the uselessness of belly dancing is not true. The main thing is a competent teacher. If a dancer has a famous name, this does not mean at all that she is a good belly dance teacher. At the school of oriental dance "Impromptu" I first met a teacher who combines grace, female beauty, the ability to dance and explain every movement in detail. nine0003
I consider belly dance the most beautiful, feminine, extremely complex and emotional dance. Having learned to dance an oriental dance, now I can dance in any direction, because the muscles are prepared, the parts of the body can move separately from each other! You have no idea what an amazing feeling it is to learn how to dance belly dance!
You can also learn belly dancing at home.
