Hip Pull Belly Dance Move

Video Transcript

"Let's try a folkloric move called the Hip Pull. What's going to happen here is the hips are going to move straight back in a horizontal fashion and because the hip comes back, the foot is going to release. You have to be careful not to turn it into a kick. You want the foot to come naturally off the floor. Let me show you what it looks like first and I will break it down. So we're going to pull it back and put our weight front. Pull it back, front. Pull and front. Pull, front. Pull, front. So this is the movement you want. So as you come back, you're actually going to be bringing your popo back and you want your back spine and even like you become one move, one piece from your shoulders to your hips. So as if somebody has their arms around you or rope around your hips and they're going to pull you straight back in, like wooh, like that. So you want to make sure that you have your back foot nice and anchored and so you're going to pull it in. Or imagine a piece of ice going down the front of your shirt and you're like, wooh. You don't want it to touch your skin and go out the bottom of your shirt. So pull and press, pull back and press. Now the foot is just going to be very relax, you're not going to really try to do much with it at all. You want to keep the toe kind of pointed but you don't want to pull out effort into it at all. You want to look very natural. That's the whole idea with folkloric move. So practice that in the mirror."