Eight Essential Stretches For Bellydancers

I am an amateur dancer trying to remember what I learn and spreading the love. Firstly, you should fill the dancer in on your expectations for the event. Do you want the dancer to interact with guests? Is there a certain theme or color scheme the performer can try to integrate into their costume? "These little details can make an impact and make your event stand out among others," advises Lauren . If you would like to see the belly dancer incorporate props, like a sword or even (eek!) a snake, make sure these are things that can be accommodated.

To All Students, Regarding "Loyalty" to Your Teacher. Once you feel comfortable, try picking up the pace so that your hips begin to shake. From here, you’ll continue alternating between straightening and bending knees to cause each hip to raise in succession.

Please wait in the outside waiting area until class begins ~ there may be other lessons going on before yours. Learning belly dance is an amazing personal makeover experience welcoming women of any age, size or shape. While we are working hard on the upper body, it’s easy to forget you hips and lower back. To keep your body happy, it is essential to protect your back. Be sure to keep your pelvis and your ribcage stabilized while being expressive with your arms.

If you want to do it yourself, there is a number of online tutorials, including a few I shot with dancer Iana Komarnytska, which you can find here. Saqra offers easy-to-use tips for learning a choreography. Tips for organizing your practice time for best results. Try new dance styles & music or even a prop. Remember to keep your rib cage lifted, shoulders down and relaxed, stay balanced, abs engaged, pelvic tucked and soft knees.

Keep your heels flat on the ground as you do the lift. Finally watch as she takes all the moves and combines them into a beautiful and exotic bellydance routine. Welcome to Bellydance.com's blog page where we share our love for bellydance with you and write about all things belly dance. Our blog will feature articles written by our team as well as articles from experts in the belly dance world. Our blog will include articles on costuming, trends, technique, tips, and much more. This is the first of my instructional belly dancing videos.

This will help you create your own dance style and not be a carbon copy of your instructor. Videos/DVDs are great teaching tools but they can not replace an instructor. Make sure you bow after your performance and thank the audience, the band if you’re dancing to live music, sound person if they are on stage, etc. Half time the music with your moves this gives your dance more interest. I teach a lot of workshops in and around the State of Arizona and one thing I see are dancers having a difficult time “putting it all together” in their performance. Ok, so this isn't an award-winning choreography but you get the idea.

8 counts of mostly one movement , but then finish with a different movement. Anyway, the style of improvising you will probably do is what’s often called “home style”, “beledi style” or raks shaabi. It’s simple, playful, repetitive, earthy, and very personal rather than audience-directed. FORMAL, i.e., by a performer, onstage; in Belly Dance costume.

In this free dancing video series, Tara will teach you the foundations of belly dancing that will greatly aid future belly dancing endeavors. Learn the history of belly dance, proper attire, breathing and muscle isolation techniques, as well as balance exercises. Find out how facial expressions can affect your performance, and see a few belly dancing warm ups.

The first goal is to find and maintain a neutral pelvis. We are not trying to achieve a fully flat back. For most people this is impossible as we have a natural curve in our spines and muscles and flesh behind. As you raise your arms, actively work to relax the upper trapezius, instead using the lower trapezius to keep your shoulders as far away from your ears as possible. The upper trapezius muscles run down your neck and over the inner top part of your shoulders.