Video: Belly Dancing Twists: Basic Single

A basic single twist in belly dancing requires the dancer to point feet straight ahead, keep knees bent and chest lifted. Dance the basic single belly dancing twist move with tips from a belly dancer in this free dance lesson video.

Video Transcript

Let's work on our Basic Single Twist. So first we're going to make sure that our feet are pointed straight ahead. Our knees are bent. Our belly button's pulled in. Our chest is lifted and our shoulders are back and down. Let's bring the arms out away from the body, palms down. Good. So for our Basic Single Twist, we're actually going to straighten up our knees. Now, we never straighten our knees in belly dancing, but for this exercise we are going to straighten our knees. Make sure you keep that tuck so you butt doesn't stick out, okay. So keep this tuck. Good. And then we're going to twist, right and left. So twist those hips forward, keep the knees straight and put your hands as if they're on a door frame in front of you, to keep your shoulders and your fingertips stable. Okay. So for right here, good, don't let your hands move. It's very easy to start doing this type of motion, right? So just right here, right and then left. Keep the belly button pulled in, keep the hips parallel to the floor. Good. Now try bending your knees. What tends to happen here is on the hips start to get off, tilt turn start going up and down instead of forward and back. So straighten up the knees again and keep going forward and back with the hips and let's go double time. One, two; one, two and once you're familiar with that movement, then bend your knees and see if you could maintain the same movement.

Belly Dancing Twists: Basic Single

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