Transcript of
Belly dancing
(Turkish music)
Belly dancing's great. It's for everybody.
It's really good all-round exercise.
You use muscles that you wouldn't use normally
like your lower back muscles and your abdominal muscles.
It's not only having fun and getting into shape
and feeling sexy and also feeling happy about your body,
you're also exercising your brain.
For me dancing is my life, especially belly dancing.
I've been doing it since I was young and I keep doing it.
We are here to demonstrate
a couple of simple, basic belly dance moves for you.
We are doing a veil dance today. We have chosen a veil dance.
What we are going to do is we are going to take a step forward
and lift the foot.
Down, four, five.
Step, lift, three, four, five.
Step, lift, three, four, five.
Step, lift, three, four, five.
Step, lift, three, four, five.
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The next step is very isolated, with abdominals and your chest.
So what we do is pull, pull, lift, drop.
Pull, pull, lift, drop.
We pull in the lower abdominals
and then we pull in the upper abdominals
and we lift the chest and drop.
Pull, pull, lift, drop.
So we take a step with this.
And step, pull, three, four, drop.
Step, pull, three, four, drop.
Turn to the side, up, drop.
And... drop.
The next step is a travelling step.
We are going to be using our hip lifts on the side
and we are going to be using our chest lifts and drops as well.
The hand is right behind your head This is how we hold it.
And we take a step, lift, drop.
And step, lift, drop.
And step, lift, drop.
And step, lift, drop.
So if you do this all together.
And we take a cross step, lift, drop.
Cross step, lift, drop.
Cross step, lift, drop.
Cross step, lift, drop.
Back, lift, drop.
And back, lift, drop.
And back, lift, drop.
And back, lift, drop.
The next step we are going to do is a Turkish folkloric step.
Get our veil under control on this side by holding it.
And we take a step forward
for one, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
It's also called basic step, this, but it's very small
and at the same time what we are doing
is we are doing a figure eight with our veil.
Circle and circle.
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So those were all the basic steps of this dance.
What we are going to do now is put it all together
and demonstrate the whole dance for you.
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