Video: Sensual Belly Dancing: Forward Hip Circles

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Forward hip circles are one of the sensual moves all belly dancers master. Belly Dancing is an ancient form of female dancing using the hips as the main form of communication. Learn how to do sensual forward hip circles correctly from an experienced belly dancer in this free video.

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Let's work on an unweighted hip sensual dance move; this is going to be vertical circle that's going to travel forward. Let's start with our feet being slightly apart; put your weight on one of your legs, lift the other foot; heel, press the toe into the floor and make sure both knees are bent, pulling your belly; lift your chest and relax your shoulders. Let's just put our hands out to the side; the circle is going to go forward so we're going to first lift it into our rib cage, twist it slightly forward; let it drop down, bring it back. And up and forward; and down and back, it's always a good idea to start with a square and make sure you're hitting all the right points first and then we're going to round it out so smooth out those corners. So this is a movement you'd want to do that's to nice slow music or you really want to accent a pretty flute or something like that. So make sure you keep everything lifted and smooth; make sure your knee does not bend out too much, you want to keep it pointing forward and in; you don't want it to be out here, you want to keep it all nice and keep your center all toward the middle of your body; and just make that movement nice and smooth. Practice it in the mirror and on both sides.

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Sensual Belly Dancing: Forward Hip Circles

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