Belly Dancing Shimmy: Forward Figure-8

Video Transcript

"Are you ready to spice up your shimmies with some layers? My name is Karen and this is Johanna. We're with Hip Expressions Belly Dance Studio. Let's add a forward horizontal figure eight to our shimmy. Make sure you practice the moves separately and get them really good before putting them together. Let's have our feet slightly apart, our knees bent, our belly button pulled in, and let's bring our left hip forward, and slide to our body and bring our hip--our right hip, to the back corner. Leave it out there and bring it to the front corner, now slide it through your body and do the same thing. There you go. Get it nice and smooth, and keep it horizontal. Those knees are going to bend and straighten a little bit just to keep those hips in the right place. Now let's add our shimmy. Let's get our shimmy going. Very good. Keep that chest lifted, watch your belly button, now slide it to the back, bring it around to the front, slide it through. Bring it around to the front, slide it through. And a little bit faster. I'm going to go to the side so you can see me a little more. Good. So keep those heels pressed into the floor as you keep your figure eight going around your body. Practice this in the mirror and you'll have a nice forward figure eight shimmy too."