Deep Articulation Tech for Belly Dance - Spinal & Abdominal

Class 1 Spinal articulation in belly dance transitional steps

You can’t have that fluid, connected, expressive movement in bellydance if you are not supporting your hipwork or armwork with spinal articulation – body waves and rotation. Learn to fully engage your spine on every step. Level: Intermediate

Class 2 Coordination Drills for Fluidity in Belly Dance

Instruction and practice of belly dance moves and trajectories essential for developing and enhancing fluidity of your dance. We’ll work on the upper-lower body coordinations needed to support your hipwork and full body angle changes in belly dance. The drills from this class are also available as a non-stop 30-minute practice session.

Class 3 Twisting Undulation: Intermediate-Advanced Belly Dance Technique and 30-min. Non-Stop Practice. Combinations and choreography taught in a non-stop dance with music format. “Belly dance is taught through isolations, an important element of belly dance aesthetics. However, focusing on isolations often results in stiffness – you end up dancing with frozen spine and chest. As intermediate/advanced dancers, we need to graduate from isolations to grasping the full body dynamics. The “twisting undulation” is a good shortcut to connecting your lower and upper body in a number of dance movement contexts.”

Class 4 Full Body and Upper Body – connecting trajectories – Technique Drills

How to keep your upper body belly dance moves organically woven into the texture of your dance movement, as opposed to having them thrown in as random embellishments? “We learn belly dance through isolations and one of the side effects is, sometimes we keep this totally isolated mode even when we are not beginners any more. When you see a dancer who is a great mover, and especially if she is improvising, not implementing a choreography she created for her students, you often can’t see where one so-called move ends and the other begins, the movement trajectories are natuarally interwoven. So today we’ll try to work on combinations where we’ll connect the upper body trajectories to full body or other upper body trajectories. It’s the same thing that I always repeat to you in our classes – the key feature of advanced bellydance is that you don’t cut your movement trajectories, you weave them into longer continuous strings. ” Level: Intermediate-Advanced