Video: Knee & Hip Moves in Belly Dancing

Knee placement is key to belly dancing hip movement. Learn drills to improve your belly dancing moves in this free belly dance lesson from a professional belly dancing performer and instructor.

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In belly dance, the relationship between your knee and your hip is a very important one. Our hips can't move if our feet and our knees aren't in the right place. Right? So let's start with our feet facing straight ahead. Our knees are bent, belly button's pulled in, chest is lifted, shoulders are back and down, arms are out away from the body. Good. Now, if our knees are bent, what's going to happen is if you straighten your knee, your hip is going to lift. Okay. You want to make sure you're not straightening both knees or you just going to do a level change up, right?. So, straighten the knee and this hip comes up, and bend the knee it drops back down. So let's just work for one hip for now. Straighten, lift the hip, and bend. Straighten and bend. Little faster. And one, two; one, two. So you can see that the hip is being lifted by our ab muscles but also by straightening the knee. Alright. So that's our foundation, its our knees and our thighs. And double time. So I'm just using that one knee to control that hip. And little faster. And that will work up into a Shimi which we'll cover in another clip. So we can alternate side to side with this or stay on one hip, depending on the belly dance move.

Knee & Hip Moves in Belly Dancing

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