Description

“ABellyC’s” is a foundational class to learn the fundamentals of belly dance.

Monthly sessions begin with a brief history and/or interesting facts about belly dance. 

The first class reviews the FUNDAMENTALS:

• Belly Dance Posture (Stance)
• Head, Shoulder, Torso & Hip Isolations (skeletal & muscular)
  • Slides
  • Lifts & drops
  • Twists

SUPPLIES recommended:

• Hip scarf (with coins, fringe, etc.)
• Dance shoes (jazz, ballet, flexible)
• Veil
• Zills
• Water bottle (water dispenser is available)

CLASS SEQUENCE:

1. Dynamic Stretching/Warm-up
2. Learning
3. Practice
4. Cool down/Static Stretching

Over repeated monthly sessions, students will learn a variety of the moves listed below.

TORSO & HIP ISOLATIONS

• Head, Torso, & Shoulders
  • Circles
  • Horizontal/Vertical Figure 8s
  • 1/2 Moons
• Hips
  • Horizontal/Vertical Circles
  • Horizontal/Vertical Figure 8s
  • Big Rolls
  • Omis
  • Sways
  • 1/2 Moons

ARM & WRIST ISOLATIONS

• Arms
  • 1st position (framing hips)
  • 2nd position (shoulder level)
  • 4th position (split arms vertical and horizontal)
  • Split side to side 
  • 5th position (above head)
  • Cradle (behind the head)
  • Tribal (to hips)
  • Ghawazee (open or closed to front or in 5th)
  • “S”
  • High V
  • Snake/undulation
  • Paint the fence
  • Siren (pulling)
  • Spellcaster (pushing)
  • Medusa (candle)
  • Fountain (up through middle, and out to down)
  • Vogue (Strike a pose)
  • Genie
  • Rolling Genie
  • Temple (palms together)
  • Goddess Temple (twisted palms together)
  • Sunset (cross down)
  • Sunrise (Shirt removal)
  • Side to Side (chest level)
  • Venus (Cross behind/front/below)
  • Aladdin (Lebanese headache-coined by Sahira)
  • Circular (roundhouse)
  • Backstroke
  • Hair toss/face caress
  • Cross front/behind
• Wrists
  • Seaweed
  • Falling Leaf
  • Figure 8s out/in (floreos)
  • Undulation
  • Lotus
  • Waterfall

POPS, SHIMMIES & UNDULATIONS

• Shoulder 3/4, 4/4
• Hip ups 3/4, 4/4
• Heel Drops
• Twists
• Knee

TRAVELING

• Basic Walk
• 4-point Pivot turn
• Hip-ups
• Rock Step
• Crossé
• Zenouba
• Grapevine
• Three-step

PROPS and ZILS (provided)

• Veil
• Zills (rhythms)
• Cane
• Poi
• Voi
• Fan
• Tray

Students will also have access to Zoom into class or attend in-person. Recordings will be available in Google Classroom as a supplement to the class.