The Hip Drop : Egyptian Belly Dancing

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Sahira and I’m here on behalf of Expert Village to tell you all about belly dancing. The hip drop is also a very common belly dance movement. You’re going to be using your oblique muscles to isolate, to create this movement, a lot of belly dance really comes from the abdominal area, which is why many people may have called it belly dance in the very beginning. The knees have to be soft, you must remember your posture in this movement, pelvis is tucked as always, you’re going to use your obliques to draw your hip up into your center sort of like you are drawing it through to the core and you release in a drop, all of your weight is on your left foot, when you’re dropping with the right hip, I’m pulling up with my obliques and dropping, up and dropping. Common arm positions for this movement are here with the left arm up and the right arm framing the hip that’s doing the work, up, drop, up, drop, a very common variation you’ll see on this is the release in the foot on the drop every other time, drop, release, drop, release."