Belly Dance For Beginners

: The fundamental movement library

What you'll learn

Belly Dance isolations of movement

The anatomy of how the movements are created

Requirements

complete beginners welcome!

Description

If you've ever wanted to try out the beautiful art form of Belly Dance, but you've been too nervous to try out a group class or perhaps you just don't have a class nearby; then this is for you. Learn the basics, the foundations, the stuff you need to get your head around; in the comfort of your own home / space. There is no difficult confusing choreography in this course; it is aimed at complete beginners to give them a chance to really get these movements into their bodies.When I first wanted to learn belly dance, I was 15yrs old… but it would be another 10 years before I set foot in a 'scary' classroom full of strangers. I went with a friend, who dropped out after only a few classes, but I was hooked. I was lucky; my first dance teacher was kind, patient and nurturing. I wish I hadn't waited so long to get started…. but it's scary being a beginner.With this course I hope to enable the complete beginner to confidently take their first steps on their belly dance journey.Almost every move in our dance form is created with these basic movements. If you can master these isolations and get them in your muscle memory (which can take some time so do be patient with yourself!) then you should feel confident either taking a real live class, or, moving on to more advanced online classes.If you feel like you already have the basics under your dance belt; then this course can be used as a deeper dive into the anatomy used to create the movement, as dancers, drilling the basic movements is always a good thing to come back to.

Overview

Section 1: How to stand in dance posture

Lecture 1 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 1. Dance posture

Section 2: Movement Fundamentals Library

Lecture 2 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 2. Hip Slides

Lecture 3 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 3. Chest Slides

Lecture 4 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 4. Hips on the Up

Lecture 5 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 5. Chest Lifts and drops

Lecture 6 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 6. Hip Shimmy

Lecture 7 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 7. Shoulder Shimmy

Lecture 8 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 8. Arm, hands, Lotus & Floreo

Lecture 9 Belly Dance Movement Fundamentals Library: 9. Undulations and Belly rolls

Section 3: Warm up

Lecture 10 Core Conditioning warm up for Belly Dance; Beginners

Lecture 11 Core Conditioning warm up : upper body strength

Lecture 12 "quick n dirty" warm up

Section 4: Drill the movements

Lecture 13 Drill the movements with me

Lecture 14 Mini choreography / Combo class

Lecture 15 Drill the combo

Lecture 16 A Fusion Arms workshop; adding the arm wave

Lecture 17 Fusion Arms Combo only

Section 5: Cool Down

Lecture 18 Cool Down Yoga

Section 6: Beyond the Basics: adding more movements

Lecture 19 Fig 8 in the Hips; Horizontal

Lecture 20 Fig 8 in the Hips; Vertical

Lecture 21 Fig 8 in the torso; Chest Taxeem / Mya

Lecture 22 Hip circles ; internal and external

Lecture 23 Chest Circles; How we do it in fusion bellydance

Lecture 24 Arm undulations

Lecture 25 The Body Wave

Lecture 26 Shoulder locks

Section 7: Drill the movements 2

Lecture 27 Liquid fusion; serpentine movement in the body

Lecture 28 Locks and pops

Lecture 29 Putting it all together ; a drill companion

Lecture 30 The drill choreo (no breakdown)

Budding dancers who are completely new to Belly dance,Belly dance students looking to deepen their knowledge of the basics