Video: Belly Dance Serpent Arms

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Arms should be slightly bent at the elbows in serpent arms. Learn how to perform this move from an experienced belly dancer in this free video series.

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The next thing I'm going to show you is serpent arms. For serpent arms, we're going to bring these arms forward, again, you want to be slightly bent at the elbow. We're going to bend the elbow up, a, little bit up and off to the side, through the wrist through the knuckles and through the fingers. Bring the elbow down, it's just going to be a slight move. Bring the elbow up, wrist, fingers and elbow down. Wrist, fingers, elbow up, wrist, fingers, elbow down, wrist, fingers. Now the other arm, elbow up, wrist, fingers, elbow down, wrist, fingers. Elbow up, wrist, fingers and elbow down, wrist, fingers. I'm going to put them together as this elbows coming up, as one is going to turn to drop the other one comes up and then the other one comes up. Be aware of your fingers, make sure you don't have straight fingers and make sure you're not pointing. And elbow up, elbow up. This is what it looks like from the side, elbow up, elbow up, elbow up. And you can watch your hands just that, make it a little bit more of an accent. It's called serpent arms. You can also elongate them just a little bit. And then you can bring it back small. Again, this is serpent arms.

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Belly Dance Serpent Arms

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