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Learn How to Belly Dance: Complete Guide from A to Z by Udemy
Discover your inner goddess in a fun 17-hour belly dance journey guided by award-winning dancer Iana Komarnytska.
Course Highlights
- 17 hours of step-by-step instructions, dance practice, and everything you want to know about belly dance.
- Basic belly dance rhythms, fundamentals of dancing with a veil, related folklore styles, and other things that are essential to know right from the beginning.
- Various belly dance movements: shimmies, belly rolls, hips movements, undulations, chest isolations, and many others!
- Knowledge to understand music, costume fashion, essential parts of a belly dance show, and cultural environment of this dance.
- Skills to put all learnt movements into dance combinations, and simply enjoy dancing to the music.
- Full belly dance routine (drum solo choreography).
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
6 Topics
Welcome to the course!
About the instructor
For whom is this course
What do you need for this class
Belly dance as a physical activity
What is belly dance and its terminology
3 Topics
Your posture and arm positions
Warm-up routine
Cool down routine
6 Topics
Basic Hip Circle
Horizontal Figure 8
Vertical Figure 8 (Maya)
Combination 1: Fluid Hips
Combination 2: Fluid Hips Variation
FAQ: Can We Do Vertical Figure 8 on Toes?
8 Topics
Basic body positions & transition between sides
Hips Up & Down
Hip Twist
Adding Accents
Hip Drop
Combination 3: Belly dance party
Combination 4: Medley
FAQ: Problems With a Hip Drop?
7 Topics
Side-to-side
Front-to-Back & Horizontal Circle
Up-to-Down & Circle Through Up
Vertical Circles
Diagonals
Figure 8
Combination 5: Ultimate Isolation
8 Topics
Review: chest and hips
Travelling Circles
Around You
Big Hip Circle
Full Circle with Upper Body
Ommy
Combination 6: Continuous Circles
FAQ: "Clicking" Sensations in My Hip!
3 Topics
Regular Undulation
Reverse Undulation
Combination 7: Undulation Drill
9 Topics
Introduction to Shimmies
Twist Shimmy
Egyptian Shimmy
Vibration Shimmy
'Bouncy' Shimmy
Hip Shimmy
Chu-chu
African Shimmy
Shoulder Shimmy
5 Topics
Transitions between different positions
Arm waves
'Window'
Wrist Circle Palms
Combination 8: Embellishing hips with arms
6 Topics
Introduction to Traveling Steps
Combination 9: With Pas De Bourree Step
Combination 10: With Traditional Egyptian Step
Combination 11: With Saidi Step
Combination 12: With Twist and Cross Steps
Combination 13: With Arabesque
5 Topics
Why this section is only in the middle of the course?
Finding the muscles
Alternate
Belly Rolls
Combination 14: Roll it baby!
4 Topics
Be Careful!
Basic Move
Belly Flutters
Combination 15: Layering on Top of Undulation
4 Topics
Shoulder shimmy
Egyptian shimmy
Vibration
Hips shimmy
3 Topics
Saidi
Khaleeji
Baladi
2 Topics
Malful
Maqsum
8 Topics
Introduction to Basic Turns
Cross-turn
Basic turn on three counts
Chaine Turns
On spot
Barrel Turn
Turn with a Hip Circle
Combination 16: Mixing different turns
9 Topics
How to Hold the Veil
Basic Positions
Flips
Around yourself
Flips over shoulders from the back
Flips over shoulder from the front
Scheherazade trick
Barrel Turns
Combination 17: Dancing with veil
4 Topics
Getting down to the floor
Sitting on your knees
On the side
On the back & Summary
5 Topics
Introduction to dancing to the music
Slow song
Traditional Arabic song
Mejance
Drum solo
6 Topics
About Costumes
TIP: How to Store Your Hip Scarf With Coins
About Props
About Belly Dance Shows
About Music
About Drumming
7 Topics
Before we start learning this dance routine
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Full Choreography
4 Topics
Drill 1 - Shimmies & Hips Stretch
Drill 2 - Maya Stretch
Drill 3 - 'Hourse' Step
Drill 4 - Feeling Grounded
3 Topics
REMINDER: Never skip your cool down routine!
Conclusion
Bonus: Where to keep learning
Learn How to Belly Dance: Complete Guide from A to Z
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