Hip Lift in Belly Dancing

Video Transcript

"The un-weighted hip lift drop is a nice basic foundation move. We're going to start with our feet getting them in the right position. Put your weight on one foot with the knee slightly bent; now we're going to distribute our weight onto our big toe of our opposite foot, lift the heel; make sure the ankle is in and the knees are either pointing toward one another or in the same direction. Make sure the belly buttons pulled into the spine, the chest is lifted and the shoulders are relaxed. Let's have our arms in a basic position away from the body. Now we're going to be using both a pushing movement and a pulling and a letting it down movement. So we're going to push with the ball of the foot and crunch the hip up toward the ribs; so you're going to push with the foot and also pull with the muscles right here by your rib cage, and you're going to pull it in. That's very important that the opposite knee bends and it's going to stay in that position and allow the hip to come up and let it go down. So the other knee should not be moving at all. This is a very important one to drill like five, ten minutes or so at a time if not more. That'll get it strong and precise. So practice this in the mirror and make sure you got all these positions just right."