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Natural Beauty Belly Dance, a center for artistic belly dance in both traditional and innovative spheres, empowers and inspires dancers to train precisely, avoid injury, work creatively, and take ownership of their craft. Fostering “natural beauty,” the attractive and charismatic quality of confident authentic self-expression, classes equally promote creative vision, technical excellence, and personal style.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Coming Up: “Undulations, Vertical 8s, and Ribcage Isolations” on April 21

Undulations, Vertical 8s, and Ribcage Isolations is the second of a five-part workshop series, Oriental Dance Deconstructed.  This week's syllabus includes:
  • Pelvic Undulations
    • over a basic stance 
      over a staggered stance 
      walking forward and back 
      turning and traveling sideways 
      with level-change variations 
      over one foot, with 2 variations (lyrical and Saidi) for following through with the free leg 
      over one foot with 3 twisting variations and modern Egyptian variation 
      undulation stylization for hip drops and double drops 
      undulation stylization for horizontal-plane figures of 8 
  • Reverse pelvic undulations with travel variations
  • Horizontal-plane ribcage circles
  • Vertical ribcage circles, “U”s, and “n”s
  • Chest lifts and drops
  • Sagittal ribcage circles and reverse sagittal ribcage circles
  • Beledi step-touch and other accenting with sagittal ribcage circles
  • Full-torso undulations
  • Upper body figures of 8 up, down, and twisting 
  • Lower body figure of 8 up and down ("maya") with American, Egyptian, and Turkish variations for flat feet and lifting heels
  • Single-hip vertical circles with travel variations
  • Full torso figure of 8 up and down with American, Egyptian, and Turkish variations for flat feet and lifting heels
  • Egyptian "up and over" 8
  • Lower body or full torso 8s as a stylization for shimmies and hip drops
  • Full-torso undulation accents
    • up to the front
      up to the back
      down to the back
      up to the side
      down to the side 
If time permits, we'll also look at some techniques for safe backbends, and incorporating backbends into undulations and upper body circles.

If you have not yet confirmed your spot, please pre-pay or RSVP.  Please note, registration is closed for the Foundations session at 2:00, but spots remain for the Master class from 3:00 -5:00.


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