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

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...

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...

Infinity Loops and Steps - Infinity Loops hipwork trajectories layered on steps in belly dance combinations with Neon. Step-by-step combinations breakdown + 30 min of practice with music. Also available: 30-min. version: combinations practice only, non-stop. Music: "The River" from the album Sea...

Belly dance Hipwork Practice Choreography with Neon. 10 belly dance hip work combinations into a practice choreography: Breakdown step-by-step and practice - each bellydance combinations separately and together to the choreography song.
"Enta Wa Bass Instrumental" by Beata and Horacio Cifuentes ...

Oriental Dance / Belly Dance Taksim with Fluid Accents - with Neon - Oriental Dance taksim practice combinations and mini-choreography using fluid-trajectory accents and shimmy layering. "Taksim showcases improvisational artistry of melodic instruments and often includes call and response mode wi...

Twisting Undulation: Intermediate-Advanced Belly Dance Technique and 30-min. Non-Stop Practice. Combinations and choreography taught in a non-dtop dance with music format. "Belly dance is taught through isolations, an important element of belly dance aesthetics. However, focus on isolations often...

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...

1:06 Belly dance with wings - mini-course with Neon - Class 1 Technique and Practice. Neon teaches technique, vocabulary and showmanship of belly dance with the wings of Isis with emphasis on improvisational dance. Level: Open Music: "Ottoman Lobotomy" from the album Kara Nomadica by Kara Nomadi...

Percussive hipwork technique practice flow (non-stop with music) to increase precision and motion range of your belly dance hipwork . Open level. This is a conditioning and technique practice class - it has no breakdown of bellydance hipwork moves - only practice of individual moves and simple co...

Shemadan/Belly Dance Candelabrum dance combinations Class 1 - combinations step-by-step and practice, plus a non-stop candelabrum routine to develop technique and showmanship skills for professional candelabrum performance. Music: "Bint el Shalibiyeh-Middle" from the album Lavender by Middle-Ear...

0:43 Belly dance hipwork and arms coordination practice with Neon: 30-min movement flow featuring coordination practice for bellydance hipwork and arm paths/frames. Level beginner-intermediate

Instruction and practice of belly dance moves and trajectories esential for developing and enhancing fluidity of your dance - with Neon. We'll work on the upper-lower body coordinations needed to support your hipwork and full body angle changes in belly dance. The drills from this class are also ...

Belly dance combinations/drills designed to increase abdominal engagement as you perform common belly dance steps. We'll also practice supporting our hipwork with organic upper body trajectories. The combinations presented in this class are also featured in Neon's "Eternal Feminine" choreography....

You can’t have that fluid, connected, expressive movement in bellydance if you are not supporting your hipwork or armwork with spinal articulation - body waves and rotation. Learn to fully engage your spine on every step. Level: Intermediate