Belly dance veil practice / performance choreography - step-by-step instruction and practice from the top for each combination. Level - intermediate.

Practice hipwork drills with a step-by-step breakdown of each combination. Level: Intermediate-Advanced

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.

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'.

Today we continue our balancing drills - we'll cover percussive moves: hipwork and upper body percussive accents. So prepare your balancing object - a sword, a tray, a shemadan or just a book. Remember, as always, that the heavier your balancing prop, the easier it is to balance.

Today we'll work on isolations for balancing acts. And it's not just for balancing acts. If you are not interested in balancing a sword, a tray of candles or a shemadan, resist temptation to skip this class. These drills will make you a better dancer with more organic and precise isolations, simp...

If you perform for Western audiences, it's hard to get away with the never-ending shimmy sections, Egyptian-style, because the Western eye expects more movement from a dancer, and our Western dance is always footwork-driven. A strategy I want to play with today is using shimmy in bursts or splash...

Today we'll work with gliding and swirling footwork, and the type of fluid unhurried movement that we often associate with rumba-type rhythm in bellydance music. You often see this movement in a lyrical entrance pieces, or in dancing with the veil, American Cabaret style. When you learn veil danc...

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...

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...

Intermediate-level belly dance combinations and showmanship tips for a party-style belly dance performance. Step-by-step and practice with music. 57min. class from the StarBellydancer online school series. Music: Al Ain Mulayatain by Amir Naoum Chehade and Elias Sarkar from album "Bellydance New ...

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...

How to keep your upper body belly dance moves organically woven into the texture of your dance movement, as opposed to having them thrown in as random embellishments? "We learn belly dance through isolations and one of the side effects is, sometimes we keep this totally isolated mode even when we...

Glide-Anchor-Pull: Quickie Combo 3 - Autumn Ward, music: "To Morocco with the Stars"

This quickie class starts with a 24-minute warmup and technique flow, then we'll dance through a 32-count combo with pivots, full-body undulations, and fast double drops.

Advanced technique for basic classic belly dance steps such as hip lifts/drops and simple travel steps. Are you performing these basic belly dance steps with the same technique you learned as a beginner? Time to revamp them and re-learn them to give your dance movement even more sophisticated and...

Level: Low Intermediate and up
This class teaches and practices a little over a minute of easy-paced choreography with three distinct sections: gliding travel steps and turns; an earthy shimmy; and slow sinuous vertical-plane up figure-8s. Class includes a short warmup, a short technique flow f...

In today's class we'll practice clean details that make entrance and
travel sequences look polished, professional, and fully put together.
Building on a simple footwork sequence—step-hold, step, step—we'll
create interest by varying the styling for count 2, the hold. First
we'll practice laye...

1. Belly Dance Arm Embellishments Technique Drill with Autumn Ward A follow-along bellydance technique flow for arms, hands, wrists and elbows. Included: amplifying wrist articulations and sweeps; wrist circles; elbow circles; arm undulations...Build stamina and maintain clean technique with this...