Belly Dance - Travelling Steps

Transcripts

Diana: Hi! My name is Diana. I am a Middle Eastern belly dance instructor and performer in the Northern Virginia area, and I am going to over some traveling steps. So, first we'll begin with a basic, a lift, a basic Egyptian move. So, I lift, step, and we are using our hip here to lift, lift, lift, lift, lift. So, I am using my thigh, and my hip to lift and my abdominal muscles, so we just lift, lift, lift, and we can walk around in a circle, we can walk around the room using the step, and keeping on time to music, great. Now, the next one I am going to cover is a step and point. So, we step and we point, step, point, and then we cross behind, point, cross behind, point, cross in front, point, cross in front, point, and then behind, point, behind, point, and front point, and we can travel around the room using this step, great. And the other step we can use to travel around is a Two-Two Shimmy, and that's just forward, back, forward, back, with our knees, and we get up on our toes, and we just do it very quickly, and we can travel around, good. And it's just like we are running, and we are letting our hips move, good. And that's the Two-Two Shimmy. And we could go all around the room using this movement, great. The next movement we will cover is an undulation, traveling undulation, and what I do is I keep my weight in between the two feet, and I use my abdominal muscles, good, we then travel around. So, I am rocking in between the weight and between my front foot, and my back foot, good, then we hit it on the other side, good. Now, the next step I will cover is a what I call a Cha-Cha step, and its one, two, three, change, one, two, three, change, one, two, three, change, one, two, three, change. We angle it to the corner, and then to that corner, to the back corner, to the back corner. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, good. And that's what I call a Cha-Cha step, and I am just simply changing the weight in between the two feet, good. So, hip lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, and cha-cha, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, the two-two, and we can move around using this step, great, and we can undulate back, good. And the other step I will cover is an Aerobics and its one, two, three, switch, it's one, two, three, switch, one, two, three, switch, one, two, three, switch, one, two, three, switch, one, two, three, switch, one, two, three, switch, and you try bring your hip round to the front, so that I can see your hip, and you can travel around the room using this step too, good. One more time, and that concludes the belly dance section on traveling steps.