Sunday, July 1, 2012

Dance Moves Of The Professional Belly Dancer

By Laura Gallagher


A professional belly dancer performs dance moves from numerous Middle Eastern styles. For instance, dances moves from Iran, India, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Armenia, North Africa and Greece are used. Movements found in flamenco, salsa, jazz and ballet are often performed by belly dancers with their own ideas added.

Characteristic moves include rib cage circles (figure eights) and isolated stomach rolls when standing still or doing floor work. Also, stomach flutters or using the full rib cage in undulations and camel walks are very entertaining. Circling the rib cage and hips in opposition at the same time in addition to snake arms add a beautiful effect.

Ethnic dances contain a down-to-earth, traditional outward show. The ethnic dance has a sequence of traditional moves from a lot of cultures. Various times ethnic dancers are fond of dancing on a flat foot as distinguished from on the balls of their foot to carry out an ethnic look. The ethnic approach involves hip actions and stomach undulations being huge and flamboyant.

The ethnic style calls for moves that are performed by an observable leader so that others may follow. Moves are completed from the hips up since it is difficult for followers to make out the feet. For illustration, a dancer could shift their hips in a loop with the arms still or might roll the arms with their hips still.

Egyptian dance moves are done with muscles in the torso. Hips receive the emphasis when doing circles, half circles, infinity loops, lifts, and drops. Layering (adding a shaking of the body over a hip circle) is essential in Egyptian moves. Egyptian movements use the torso and rolling abdominal movements as a layer combined with various hip moves.

Egyptian oriental moves (performed by a Professional belly dancer) use large hip circles while bending over fully at the waist and making a large, sweeping arm movement. Also, this style uses a side-to-side crescent with a hip twist on each side as well as the straight-legged vertical hip move and the pelvic forward and then back again shaking.




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