Belly dance baladi rhythm with Neon - rhythm structure, variations, combinations. "Baladi” in Egyptian Arabic means “home town/village”, or neighborhood, as opposed to anything coming from a fancy big city upscale cultural realm or influenced by Western culture. Baladi music and dance are basic...

Today we continue developing our practice choreography to El Hilwa Di song, and our theme is, as last time, dramatic and versatile travel steps that can be used for both, a perfomance on a large stage, or at a nightclub where you are surrounded by your audience.

In this practice choreography we explore different ways to travel, switching between directions and diagonals and fine-tuning your position on stage in a showy and dramatic manner. We'll take our travel steps beyond a string of belly dance moves and make them a way of reaching out to your audience.

Four lyrical combinations falling into a mini-choreography to work on pacing, fluid motion, and stage showmanship. Neon also discusses the ways your costuming affects your movement. Music: Pharaonic Passion by Beata and Horacio Cifuentes "Belly dance songs are often constructed of pieces with dif...

Improvising an organic and vocabulary-rich belly dance drum solo is a challenge for most dancers. How to approach building your improvisational skills? Neon offers a method to reset your thinking about improvising a drum solo, and compares using the same dance vocabulary in an improvisation and i...

Today we'll play with the sexy/sensual mode in bellydance. How sexy can you be in belly dance without destroying its look and feel We'll discuss, explore and put a few sexy moves together into a 2-minute practice 'sensual vignette'.

Oriental dance routines always have a section of cinematic music that is larger than life - sometimes it's a grand entrance, and sometimes it's a refrain. This is a very melodic section with a soaring, swirling melody and dramatic accents. We'll add that choreographic grandness to our Oriental da...

"We’ll review masmoudi structure and recall how to catch its accents, and also treat it as a slow beat perfect for a bellydance prop balancing act. The combinations I have selected for us today are all designed to be good for balancing either a sword or a tray of candles."

Belly dance travel step patterns for improvisational dance - triplets and 3/4 shimmy steps with Neon - combinations and practice with music; Level - beginner-intermediate

1:06 Belly dance travel step patterns for improvisational dance with Neon - 2-count steps - strategy, step-by-step, and practice; Level - beginner-intermediate

0:51 Orientalist Arms - Gestures, Patterns, Combinations with Neon: Evocative, lyrical arm patterns and gestures for belly dance - step-by-step plus practice in mini-combinations; Level: Open

0:50 Dramatic Dance and Body Language Accents with Neon - Adding head turns, hair tosses, arm and hand gestures and other accents to your belly dance vocabulary: Technique aqnd Combinations ; Level: Intermediate
Music: "Saptak-Samaya Mix-Solace" from the album Eastern Grooves by DJ Cary; "Karu...

Belly dance ciftetelli rhythm with Neon - rhythm structure, variations, combinations. "Because ciftetelli is perceived as a slow belly dance rhythm, very often the melody is improvisation played on oud, violin, ney (arabic flute) or keyboard, - any melodic instrument. So as dancers we can’t think...

Go beyond the retro "Oriental arms" to fluid and evocative arm movement. Neon shares her technique of adding powerful expressivity to every arm path and gesture + practice with music. Level: Open