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Belly Dance HOW TO secrets:

    Do you remember yourself watching performance of some top belly dancer and thinking:

 “ If I would start belly dance in my childhood, I also would be able to dance like this now“?

Indeed, in childhood our body is very flexible. We have naturally straight posture. We can move our body very easy.  When we train at early age, our body gets into habit  to hold straight deportment,  it keeps obtained  flexibility and coordination for many years, and general ability to dance becomes build in. When we learn dancing in our childhood, we learn a right culture of dance movements, which  stays in the memory of our body for many years after.

Now let’s have a quick look at what we are doing when we start our first belly dance lessons at some oriental school: we learn techniques and choreographies, sometimes expressions.  And then we look at our performance and… we see something different than we wish to see, is’t it?

If you do it for fun, probably you will be happy with it anyway. Because the main purpose is joy, being in the flow of happiness, express your self as you are.  But what if you are full of ambitions to become really professional, not worse than top dancers, but you did not do belly dance in your childhood?

Every top belly dancer was performing already since early age. Or at least she already had a profound physical training in some other sport or dance before she came to Belly Dance. And she will even confess that she still visits fitness club and follows  another kind of dance classes.

That gives us an answer:  apart from learning techniques and choreographies we need to build up a very good physical condition, which would be there if we would train since our childhood.

Therefore if we started to learn belly dance without having such a background,  it will be obvious in our performance, no matter how good we have learned bellydance movements and choreography,  how good and sexy costume we  wear. Particularly you can see it in lost deportment, wrong posture, some heaviness,  weak arms and shoulders, lack of fluency, and unliterate movements.

Good physical condition is very important factor  of professionalism in Belly Dance!

So, to build up professional condition we need to improve our deportment if it is lost, and build up some muscles.

And even if you did not build up this condition since your early age, it is still possible to develop it and get to quite a professional  level . You may start to visit fitness club, and include the following points:

1.       Deportment (straight back).  From the first look at the deportment of a dancer one can see wether  this dancer is professional .

To improve deportment you may need to go to a specialist (orthoped, ostheopath, physiotherpist, mensendiek etc). Because everybody has his own specific issues, I can’t give here a common advice for everybody. Specialists have knowledge how to improve lost deportment in a safe and effective way.

2.       Posture. Belly dance movements look clear and beautiful  only when done with proper posture of a whole body:  keep your breast a bit up and move your pelvice a bit forward at the same time. Keep this posture all the time while you are dancing and exercising. It will get into a habit, and you will not need to think about it anymore.

3.       Arms and hands. The way arms and hands are set and moved, immediately shows level of the dancer. There are two aspects which can be paid attention for:

a)      Physical condition of back, arms and shoulders: when is not developed, arms are impossible to hold in proper position for long time.  Arms condition can be achieved by doing exercises with elastic body band.

b)      Obedient, flexible and sensitive hands. Try my DVDOriental arms and upper body technique”.

4.     Feminine strenght.  When you train in fitness club you develop muscles in the same way as men do.  Therefore it develops kind of a men’s power in the body. And in order to develop feminine strenght, we should train our muscles in feminine way, which is represented in belly dance movements itself.  When you repeat belly dance movements many times, it becomes Bellydance –Fitness, which builds up  feminine condition. It will give you fluency in all the body movements, refined techniques and very good body  shape.  Read more about Bellydance – Fitness course.

 

 


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