Video: Side Arabic Belly Dance Move With Shimmy

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Add a shimmy to the side Arabic belly dancing movement, incorporating the whole upper body into a graceful motion. Learn Egyptian belly dancing side Arabic move from an instructor in this free belly dance video.

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tovprod0722 Jul 22, 2009
This is great - thanks for information

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Let's add a three quarter shimmy to our sharp Arabic move. So let's first do it in place till we have all the parts going in the right direction. Let's have one foot slightly in front, knees are going to be bent, pulled that belly button in. And we're going to start with the weight, the leg in the front that's taking the weight. So we're going to first do like, one, two, up, up and down, down and up, up. Down down in the front, up up in the back. Down down, up up. Takatak takatak. Good. Now the back foot is going to propel us forward, so when we take weight in the back, it's going to free up our foot in the front so that we can travel. So let's try that. So, travel up. Now let's speed it up. Tak Takatak, takatak, takatak, takatak, takatak. Other way. Tak takatak, takatak. Make sure you keep your chest nice and lifted so that all that all the movement is in your hip. You keep the feet nice and small steps so that you don't get out from under you, keep your weight under you. And keep breathing. Check that belly button. Practice this in the mirror and make sure your hips are moving evenly.

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Side Arabic Belly Dance Move With Shimmy

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