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From the producers of the “Instant Belly Dancer” DVD series, “Belly Dance Party: Learn and Teach Your Friends” presents 10 fun dance combinations that can be performed in sequence or mixed & blended. Introduction to the belly dance vocabulary. Beginner level. DVD contains: -Detailed breakdown of dance moves via Neon’s “Instant Belly Dancer” system. Geometric shapes & onscreen graphics superimposed on Neon’s image facilitate rapid learning. – Practice with Neon in 3 tem… More >>

Belly Dance Party: Bellydance combinations you can learn tonight!

In the eleventh lesson we continue learning the undulations, concentrating on the full-body undulations, called “the camel move”. Join us in this belly dancing lesson, as well as in the full online belly dancing course from BellyDanceBoulevard.com. Watch and practice at the comfort of your home, by yourself or with a friend. If you are not a registered member yet, we welcome you to enter Belly Dance Boulevard – a true home of belly dance on the web. You will discover a beautiful boutique, a community with a teacher directory, articles, upcoming events calendar and much more. While using this video for practice, I want to remind you to start with the basic posture as was taught in the first lesson, and also that learning to belly dance over the internet does not constitute an alternative for taking classes with a teacher. The music in this lesson is from Yair Dalal & the Alol Ensemble’s CD “The Perfume Road”, and The song’s name is “El Halidg (The Persian Gulf)”.You can read about Rsdwan and also buy the CD here: www.bellydanceboulevard.com Now go have fun!

Finaly! After a short break, the lessons are back. This is the tenth lesson, in which we learn how to do hip undulations and belly rolls. Join us in this belly dancing lesson, as well as in the full online belly dancing course from BellyDanceBoulevard.com. Watch and practice at the comfort of your home, by yourself or with a friend. If you are not a registered member yet, we welcome you to enter Belly Dance Boulevard – a true home of belly dance on the web. You will discover a beautiful boutique, a community with a teacher directory, articles, upcoming events calendar and much more. While using this video for practice, I want to remind you to start with the basic posture as was taught in the first lesson, and also that learning to belly dance over the internet does not constitute an alternative for taking classes with a teacher. The music in this lesson is from Nizar Radwan’s CD “Haifa”‘ and The song’s name is “Taqasim on Violin and Samai Farah Faza” by Muh’yi Deen Heidar (Iraq). You can read about Rsdwan and also buy the CD here: www.bellydanceboulevard.com Visit www.BellyDanceBoulevard.com to see more lessons, read tips, watch videos with explanations and communicate with other belly dancers all around the world. Now go have fun!

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Welcome to Dance Off the Inches Fat Burning Belly Dance. If you’re looking for a simple and sultry way to drop pounds and inches then this belly dance routine is for you. Dancer Kili Marti uses moves from Belly Dance, Bollywood and other Eastern-flavored dances to create a sexy, fat burning program that is truly upbeat and never dull or boring. Set to infectious music, this cardio belly dance fusion is a celebration of spirit and your own personal style. So if you’r… More >>

Dance Off the Inches: Fat Burning Belly Dance

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Belly dance is fun, exciting, sensual and suitable for all body types and fitness levels. With this centuries old art form you’ ll improve muscle tone, increase flexibility and range of motion while achieving better posture and a new sense of confidence and self-expression.

Taught by world-renowned Egyptian belly dancer, Leila of Egypt, Belly Dance for Beginnersis divided into three sections:

Section I, the fundamentals of bell… More >>

Belly Dance For Beginners

• Three 15-min. workouts built entirely on abs-toning, abs-sculpting exotic belly dance moves. As a system of movement, belly dance is the ideal, natural method for abs toning and shaping. Learn and practice belly dance steps during the workout, then follow Neon as she demonstrates a real choreographed 2-min. dance! The dance can be accessed separately for review before leaving for a dance club or p

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Three 15-min. workouts built entirely on abs-toning, abs-sculpting exotic belly dance moves!As a system of movement, belly dance is the ideal, natural method for abs toning and shaping.Learn and practice belly dance steps during the workout, then follow Neon as she demonstrates a real choreographed 2-min. dance!The dance can be accessed separately for review before leaving for a dance club or party. First fitness product to offer continuous 3-D geometric rendering of exerci… More >>

Bellydance For Body Shaping: Abs – Belly Dance Fitness Workout

Performance with Lotus Niraja. Raks & Glitter Gala Show. Available on DVD.

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The second volume in Sandra’s popular Belly By Sandra DVD series, Vol. 2: Isolations and Combinations will rapidly improve your bellydance technique with engaging and fun routines that help find the dancer in even the newest of students. This extended length 2 hour, 20 -minute DVD starts with all-new isolations and then combines them into short rhythmic sequences that feel more like dancing and less like simple exercises. By practicing and mastering these combinatio… More >>

Belly By Sandra Vol. 2: Isolations and Combinations

This unknown male bellydancer is awesome, one of the best I have seen. That would be nice if you have any related materials of him, post here. You have seen someone done better, come on post it now!!

Learn how to shimmy with traveling steps by amira mor and her jewels dancers ,this is one segment from belly dance cardio DVD, she teaches every shimmy you can imagine and more. buy now dvd, hip scarf, shoes and all your belly dance needs. WWW.AMIRAMOR.COM

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Many years ago I went to a workshop with one of my teachers and was told I danced just like her. Well, you would have thought that I won the lottery because I was so thrilled that someone thought I danced like one of my teachers. As a beginner student my identity was influenced and molded by the styles and methods of a multitude teachers.  And as I grew my awareness grew not only in regards to our dance form but also in my observation of dancers and the many levels of training it takes to become the best. An interesting quote that I like puts levels of dance into perspective; “Beginning dancer knows nothing. Intermediate dancer knows everything and is too good to dance with beginners. 3. A hotshot dancer is too good to dance with anyone. 4. Advanced dancer dances everything especially with beginners.”

As I progressed through my classes and workshops something interesting happened. I acquired combinations and gestures from the teachers I studied with but I didn’t know what to do with them once I got home and started to practice.

I saw how beautiful the moves looked on each of the dancers that I admired but when I tried to move like them, I lacked the natural grace they had. I thought it was because I just needed to practice and the need to get comfortable with the choreography. In the end I just didn’t move like my teachers and there was a part of me that felt like I never would.  I had to learn that the moves had to become a part of who I was first and only than would they become “my” moves. This meant that I could admire my teachers but at the same time separate my “identity” and dance the combinations my way. 

“Great artists are people who find ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.” –Margot Fonteyn.

The funny thing is that I didn’t develop my own “identity” until I was dancing for about ten years. So there were many years that I danced without knowing who I was or that the dance had to come from within in me. As a matter of fact I didn’t know that it had to come from within me because I was too busy dancing outside of me. It only occurred to me one day because a fan came up to me and said “I know you, you’re what’s her name”. Come to find out she was thinking of another dancer that I looked like and danced like. I came home and realized that I had to reinvent myself and start to understand what I wanted from this dance.

Push came to shove because of an experience I had at a restaurant in Dallas. I auditioned for the owner and was told to go home and learn how to belly dance.

It was a harsh lesson but one I learned from and will never forget. There were two roads that I could have traveled. One was to quit dance all together and the other was to prove him wrong. Since I love a challenge I decided to prove him wrong. I went home and started back to square one. This was liberating because I worked from the inside out. First I decided to do moves that only felt good in my body. Secondly I decided to change how I put moves together and to go outside the box of “safe” moves. I changed what was right for me and let go of ideas that just didn’t fit me anymore. Every teacher has her view of dance and as we learn we need to decide what to keep and what to let go and know that this is ok. I decided that there was certain ways that I preferred to dance than what I was told. So I decided to follow my instincts and go for it. All of a sudden as a few months passed a dancer emerged from within me that I hadn’t seen before. I danced for up to four hours a day and kept it up for about three months. I than went back to the same restaurant and auditioned again. The restaurant owner smiled at me and said “So you learned how to belly dance.” And I was hired that day.

“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.” –Isadora Duncan.

When I started to teach I realized something that is very important. It is recognizing when to let a student go so they can develop their own “identity”. One or two things will happen if you don’t know when to cut the ties. The student will eventually become dissatisfied with your knowledge or they will question every move and technique that you teach in class. I love questions and I think questions are necessary but there also has to be respect, on both ends. I also went through an “identity crises” with a few of my teachers. You can only be a “star student” for so long. I felt that my ability wasn’t being appreciated and that they were acknowledging me only through their own accomplishments.  If I did a good job of dancing than that meant that my teacher did a good job of teaching. After a while I just wanted to do a good job of dancing on my own, period. A few of my teachers didn’t understand this and took it personal when I left.  The appreciation will always be there because each teacher is in me when I dance. They are apart of my confidence and ability as a dancer.  So as a teacher I learned to give my students the open door policy. This way they are in class because they want to be.  And they can leave knowing I am proud of them and happy for them.  “The instrument by which the dance expresses itself is also the instrument by which life is lived: the human body.” –Martha Graham. Have you ever seen a dancer perform who is trying too hard to impress everyone? I have and I realized this was a good lesson in “not what to do”. Your “self identity”

can’t be forced, it has to evolve along side with you. Does it ever occur to any of us that we must first impress ourselves? We must live dance in order to perform dance. This means being aware of how we feel about dance. It is so important to feel moves because if our audience doesn’t understand belly dancing visually they can understand it emotionally. So part of understanding our “self identity” is to welcome our audiences into our dance. We than welcome them not only in how we live life but how we understand life. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.–Mata Hari. Coming back to New Mexico five years ago really tested my newfound “self identity” that had emerged in Texas. Back home people remembered me by how I danced before I left.  So I was a little apprehensive becoming apart of my dance community again. But the one thing that I brought home with me was a stronger vision of who I am as a dancer. A friend of mine saw me dance in a show and told me, “You left a girl in this dance and came back a woman.” Now when I perform people remember my name and I remember to open up to my audience. I am finally proud of who I am in this dance. But I didn’t get here alone. My “self identity” became what it is because I have amazing women supporting me. As a favorite saying goes “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”.

Belly dancing per se has been around for centuries and the very word brings to mind images of lithe women rolling their bodies sinuously to the call of music. Its origin seems to drift historically between oriental or inspired by the Romany gypsies. Today, however, belly dancing is more of a celebration of myriad cultures, which seeks to incorporate the best of all the cultures that have laid a claim on belly dancing. Tribal belly dancing is this beautiful, passionate fusion of cultures that glorifies the passionate self within the dancer.

Tribal belly dancing has evolved with the years as more and more people are discovering the exhilarating experience of stylized dance that actually frees up the muscular structure of the body by doing amazing movements and can the mind be far behind. Tribal belly dance can make the most stoic of women relate to the inner free spirit within herself and spin free with the pulsating moves that the dance demands. The very name tribal belly dance has a primordial ring to it that releases one from the dreary life and transports the dancer to another level that enhances her, both personally and physically.

Tribal belly dancing costumes actually have such color and grace that every belly dancer wearing them is going to feel at one with her essential womanliness. These belly dancing costumes are overtly flowing, colorful and gracefully gorgeous. They gladden every woman with the flowing lines and gauzy veils that emphasize feminity. Finger cymbals called zills are worn to click between the fingers and the jewelery is exotic and bold. The tribal jewelery includes headpieces that are made of beaten silver or copper and are fairly large and help keep the head scarf in place. There are belts made of coins and semi-precious stones.

American tribal style belly dance has evolved from their fascination for the exotic rhythms and the music. There is a distinctive stylization to the American version of tribal fusion belly dance that somehow has a touch of Hollywood. Belly dancing is now a hugely popular dance form in the US for the simple reason that in today’s world, women do not get a chance to flaunt their essential feminine nature and by doing the tribal fusion belly dance, they are subconsciously reaching out to the core of their essential womanhood.

Belly dance festivals, workshops and festivals, not to mention belly dance holidays, give ample opportunity to learn the craft whole heartedly and with dedication within a specified time frame. The art form of this dance has inspired several amateurs to seriously pursue the more advanced forms of belly dancing across the countries where it has originated. Most of the steps in the tribal belly dance are circular motions that are isolated in one body part at a time. The dancer gyrates and shimmies using clever muscle control to keep the rhythm going effortlessly. As you get better at belly dancing, flexibility is increased and tricks using coins and swords are popular to demonstrate the use of muscles especially in the belly and hips.

Tribal belly dancing whether American tribal fusion or otherwise, internalizes the rhythms and the outflow of emotion. It is channeled into an improvised dance that has its own uniqueness and cannot be learnt by rote. Each dancer makes a personal experience with the music and communicates with an individual style. It is more of a communication with the audience on a one to one basis and this is what adds to the simplicity and fluid sensuality of the dance. It is a misconception that tribal belly dancing is only sensual in appeal; it is actually a very mature demonstration that is not coy and at the same time is imbued with a rare dignity.

Many women in the US and Europe turn to tribal belly dancing because they treat it as a kind of self empowerment tool that heals as it teaches. Being able to belly dance is a healing medium for mind, body and soul. It frees them from their inner demons whether they have issues that need healing or otherwise. There is something very uplifting in challenging one’s ability to learn a new medium and frees the spirit in music. It is a spiritual release that endows well being of mind and body.

Tribal belly dancing even though fairly young in inception; it is growing in leaps and bounds. It has been embraced for being a multicultural offering that is exquisite in its bold definitions and delicate message. It may seem very blatant but actually has a lingering sweetness that has not been lost through the centuries of evolving to what it is today.

Now a 2-DVD set! Buy at worlddancenewyork.com – originally issued as two separate DVDs, Instant Bellydancer 1 and 2 are now together in one box at an amazing price!

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