Professional Belly Dancer Dancing Movements

By Laura Gallagher


Professional belly dancer moves consist of movements of several Middle Eastern styles, such as movements found in dances from India, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, North Africa, Greece, Lebanon and Armenia. Belly dancers often add their own ideas in addition to moves from ballet, flamenco, jazz, and salsa.

Movements found in the American Restaurant style consist of figure eights (rib cage circles) and stomach rolls the dancer isolates during floor work or standing still. Moreover, a stomach flutter or complete rib cage undulation with camel walks is especially entertaining. Rib cage circling with hips in opposition besides snake arms create an attractive result.

Ethnic dancers have a simple, traditional look that has a sequence of traditional steps from a lot of cultures. Ethnic dancers like to dance on flat feet as compared to the balls of their feet to bring about an ethnic look. The ethnic style has hip moves plus stomach undulations for the purpose of being big and showy.

The ethnic style requires that the moves are done by the leader who is visible to the others so they can follow. Moves use body parts from the hips up because it is hard for followers to see the feet. For instance, a dancer will move their hips in a circle and keep the arms still or may undulate the arms and keep their hips still.

Egyptian dance moves are done with muscles in the torso. Hips receive the emphasis when doing circles, half circles, infinity loops, lifts, and drops. Layering (adding a shaking of the body over a hip circle) is essential in Egyptian moves. Egyptian movements use the torso and rolling abdominal movements as a layer combined with various hip moves.

Egyptian oriental moves (performed by a Professional belly dancer) use large hip circles while bending over fully at the waist and making a large, sweeping arm movement. Also, this style uses a side-to-side crescent with a hip twist on each side as well as the straight-legged vertical hip move and the pelvic forward and then back again shaking.




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