Tribal Fusion Bellydance Class 3 Notes

Hi ladies! How do you feel after yesterday's class?

Here are the class notes...
1. Review:

• Arms
• Basic Egyptian
• Egyptian Half turn
• Arabic
• Arabic twist
• Choo Choo
• Choo Choo Pivot turn
• Taxeem (a.k.a. down-to-up figure 8)

2. Warm-up conditioning exercises

3. Jumana Points (this is in the Aziza Ultimate Bellydance Practice Companion DVD) are the 6 points in which you slide your hips.

• Right front corner
• Right side
• Right back corner
• then repeat Right side
• Left front corner
• Left side
• Left back corner
• then repeat Left side

Practice these hip slides to help you increase your range of motion and muscle memory!

4. Hip work!

• Piston Hips - start with legs hip width apart. Hips, alternating, move directly up and down.
• Pelvic Locks - pelvis tilting back and forward. By contracting the lower abdominal, the pelvis tilts back. By contracting the lower back, the pelvis tilts forward.
• Reverse Taxeem (a.k.a. up-to-down figure 8) or "Maya" - starting with the right hip pushing up, to the far right, bringing it down and moving the weight from the right foot to the left as you bring the left hip up, to the far left, bringing it down and back to center.
• Box - combining the Piston Hips with Pelvic Locks. In the clockwise direction: lower ab contraction, right hip up, lower back contracting, left hip up.
• Interior Hip Circle (or "Omi") - Smoothing out the sides of the Box into one continuous motion; we get a circular motion similar to that of water swishing around in a bowl.

5. Choreography to "Heretic" by Solace.

Here is the first minute...

• Basic Egyptian - 16 counts
• Egyptian half turns - 16 counts
• Torso rotations (4) - 32 counts
• Arabic - 8 counts
• Reverse figure 8 - 8 counts
• Arabic - 8 counts
• Reverse figure 8 - 8 counts

The music is on my iTunes iMix. Check previous blog for the link.

Thanks for a great class. Have a great weekend!

Lily