"You Can Bellydance!" 3-classes with Neon, absolute beginner

Party Girl is a sexy, flirty, and vibrant belly dance drum solo choreography designed for absolute beginners. This instructional video includes detailed explanation and demonstration of classic belly dance steps from all groups of the belly dance vocabulary and teaches how to weave them together into attractive combinations. The practice section features a beat counter, helpful in learning dance rhythm and timing. If you are not familiar with standard belly dance terminology, you will see the names of each step and transition displayed on screen.

Neon introduces each move step-by-step and places each one in the context of a dance combination, so that from the very beginning you learn how to combine dance steps and how combinations express rhythms. As you are learning and practicing dance steps, Neon also teaches the count. Counting is a simple but essential skill that will help you learn proper pacing and performance of dance moves in a way that accentuates the structure of Arabic rhythms. As you follow Neon in the practice section, you can check your timing against the beat counter onscreen to learn the optimal ways of placing accents and transitions.

Drum rhythms underlie most types of bellydance music, so knowing how to move with them and how to accentuate them is key to developing your musicality as a dancer.

Music: Al Tabla Jamila, album Raqs Sharqi Vol.1

Learn a fluid and sensuous dance set to a slow ciftetelli rhythm (beginner level). The Sensual Dream choreography is taught step-by-step, combination by combination. The practice section features a beat counter, helpful in learning dance rhythm and timing. Neon teaches the count as you weave steps into combinations - very helpful to learn proper pacing and the structure of the ciftetelli rhythm. As you follow Neon in the practice section, you can check your timing against the beat counter on screen and learn to use dance accents in a way that brings out the beauty of ciftetelli rhythm.

To look effortless and expressive, slow movement requires a lot of grace and fluidity. Neon weaves dance steps together like words and phrases of a language to tell a story of self-discovery and amazement at the beauty of the world. Neon’s dance style is rich in expressive body language elements such as gestures, evocative body and head angles, and arm trajectories: These elements will add an extra layer of sophistication to the texture of your dance.

The video includes detailed explanation of individual belly dance moves from all the major groups of the belly dance vocabulary, and teaches combining steps into expressive lyrical sequences. It’s great for a beginner solo performance. Music: Takasim Amniyat by Amir Naoum Chehade & Elias Sarkar