Basic requirements for belly dance

Basic requirements for belly dance

1. Basic standing posture

The knees are required to be very relaxed and not overly nervous. Keep your knees bent, your upper body is upright, and your head is forward. The entire standing posture is very elastic.

2. Hand movements

Try to relax your hands, use a little force to your wrists, and then relax. You can put your hands on both sides of your body; you can also put one hand up and the other hand next to your hips; you can also do it with both hands on your chest at the same time or alternate wrist flowers, etc.

3. Arm movements

Keep your knees moving, lift your arms, elbows and forearms upwards, imagine that you are clamping a large ball, and then start from the shoulders and go downwards in sequence, like a snake crawling slowly. After one hand, change to the other hand and alternately, plus the 8-character outer movement of your hips, from one side to the other.

You can do small movements, swing your upper limbs left and right, and keep your lower limbs moving, plus movements of the head and neck.

The height of the center of gravity can be changed and the width is raised up and down.

4. Shoulder movements

Relax the other parts, move one foot forward, swing the shoulders, forward, restore, open your hands to both sides, and keep the lower limbs moving. The upper limbs cooperate alternately to move forward and backward.

You can lean back and forward while doing your body.

Stack upwards, relax, and put your hands down.

Combining the above actions.

5. Chest movements

1. The surround of the chest

Push the shoulder to one side, backward, the other side, and backward, which is actually a chest surround for the upper body, and the lower body remains unchanged.

This action can be done by squatting or combined with hip rotation.

2. Chest swing

Forward, withdraw, and retract. Speed ​​up your efforts.

6. Abdomen movements

Lift your knees and buttocks, move forward, tighten your abdomen, restore, do it continuously

With the basic movements assured, you can learn some slightly more complicated movements

Stand: If you want to learn any kung fu or dance well, you should strive to be standardized in the first step of standing posture. The focus of belly dance is to straighten your chest, stretch your neck, straighten your back, and buckle your buttocks; raise your head confidently and avoid hunching your back. A confident and elegant temperament starts with the first posture standing.