Belly Dancing & Wrapping Arms

Video Transcript

"The next thing I'm going to show you is called wrapping arms. You want to make sure you have the material, again, in front of you. You want to make sure it is even. So, this way it draws evenly when you get into the position. Again, this is built off the butterfly. So, we're going to go into the butterfly, arms are out, we're going to drop the wings, the veil goes down behind you, here take your arms go behind the veil, come across and open. You can also cross one more time if you would like it a lot tighter or you can just release it for a little extra flare on the ends. So, again we'll start with the beginning from this. What we want to do is we want to start out with going into the butterfly making sure you're veil is even on each side and butterfly, open, drop behind you, again, scoop your arms around the back, coming around forward, we'll go twice first. Scoop again and opening up. This is called wrapping your arms. From there you can add a snake arm or while you're dancing you can drop one of the loops, snake arm and drop. That's wrapping arms."