Hi I'm Sahira and we're here today at the Neamu Studio in Houston, Texas to show you how to belly dance. So, now we're going to work on hip lefts and hip drops. It's the same isolation done in a slightly different way, so let's look at the isolation first and then we'll build the movement. Put all your weight on to your right foot. Be sure your right knee is bent slightly and your knees and your toes are pointing in the same direction. Drop, lift, drop, lift, drop, so the drop is the strong part and the lift is a little more relaxed, drop, drop, drip. Let's try that on the right side. So put your left foot back down on the floor, right foot is in releve, left knee is bent. If we're going to start with the lift we're going to accept up, up, up, up so the up is quick, the down is a little slower, up, up, up, up. Switching it to a drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, lift, drop, lift, drop, lift, drop. A nice variation to do on this is to add a little bit of a twist to your movement. So moving back to the left side we're going to drop in the front. You're going to lift and you're going to drop it a little behind. So before we were dropping directly to the side. Now I want you to drop a little forward and a little back, lift, drop to the front, lift, drop to the back and let's take this to the common and we'll half time and we're going to go forward and back, forward and back, forward and back, forward and back, squeeze up, drop it back and forward and back. If you'd like to work up to this you can also do it half time so we just lift and lift, and lift, and lift. Taking it back up to speed, lift, lift, lift, lift. Now let's switch it to drops. Here we go, drop, drop, drop, drop. We can try that half time, drop, drop, drop, drop and let's take it into the common. So forward and back, forward and back, good.
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