Head Circle in Belly Dancing

Video Transcript

"A beautiful movement you can do with your head to accent your belly dancing is the head circle. Now this combines a slide side to side with a slide forward and back. So let's make sure our feet are facing straight ahead, are knees are bent; belly buttons pulled in, chest is lifted; shoulders are back and down. If our chin is straight ahead we're going to stick it out, just a little bit, keep it lifted and then pull it back in like a turtle pulling back into its shell. But keep the chin level o.k.; it's very easy to kind of start moving around in ways that just aren't pretty. So forward and back, forward and back; good think like a chicken forward and back, good excellent and now side to side right and left; right and left good. So now if we take the head over to the right and then we're going to come around threw that forward part over to the left, and around the back over to the right. Now this is more difficult to do unless you've got your arms up, which gives you a nice reference for where your head is supposed to go. So let's slide over to the right and around, around the back front and around the back; good. Make sure your shoulders stay down because your shoulders come up then you're going to loose your head movement, good. So keep the shoulders down and then you can create your movement from there."