Video: Belly Dancing Egyptian Shimmy

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The Egyptian belly dancing shimmy is done with straighter legs than other shimmies. Learn how to do belly dancing Egyptian shimmies in this free dance video from a belly dancing director.

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Lets learn how to do an Egyptian shimmy. The Egyptian shimmy is done with straighter legs. Remember the shimmy you can always count the movement of the hip in the music. So let's start with our feet slightly apart. The legs are going to stay a lot straighter as we do it. So let's start nice and slow. And we are just bending and straightening the knees. So from the side there, my knees should look like there kind of like scissors. And then I'm going, as I work the movement up my body, it's going to then move my hips by keeping these legs straight and then it's going to work all the way up and things are going to move. Everything is going to move, just let it all go. And then speed it up. And this is your Egyptian shimmy. Everything is nice and flat and straight and elongated. And then you get it going really nice, make sure your chest is lifted. Let the movement go all the way out the top of your head. Just let everything move. Hold your arms out, breathe and smile and keep it going. That's right. Keep those legs nice and straight and bend, straight and bend. And you can speed it up, breathe. Practice that in a mirror, make sure everything looks like it's all nice in line.

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Belly Dancing Egyptian Shimmy

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