Class 1: Belly dance combinations/drills designed to increase abdominal engagement as you perform common belly dance steps. We'll also practice supporting our hipwork with organic upper body trajectories.. "Even though isolation is an important aesthetic parameter in bellydance, more often than not, trying to isolate large-range motion hipwork is counterproductive. Your upper body will move, and unless you give this movement a defined and organized quality, you will just end up with vague jerky moves that don’t contribute to the organic flow of your dance. Instead we'll learn to support our hipwork with organic upper body trajectories."

Class 2: A 2-minute intermediate-advanced elegant and evocative belly dance choreography featuring fluidity drills/combinations from the previous class. " We’ve already covered a few combinations from this dance piece in our previous class. Today we’ll put them together with the rest of our choreographic material. I designed this dance as a drill for my class, and later embellished it. The music I used is just a loop, but it has a nice free-spirited feel to it - the title of the song is “Journey to Damascus.” It was written for a film, it’s a piece of movie production music - you can look it up online and purchase it if you like it."