Dazzling dancer Ansuya is offering online classes in belly dancing. She has a free sample class which I saw part of. It’s a basics class. I didn’t manage to sit through the whole thing though.
If you end up enjoying this class and getting something useful out of it, you can opt to see the paid [...]
Ah, I’m afraid I didn’t get very far with this today. Segments of the East Coast warm up and half of Flow 1 got me hot and I abruptly gave up. Maybe tomorrow will be better since my recent flu will have dissipated a bit. I also think I have just too much on my [...]
I just finished collapsing after an hour of the first flow, which I did end to end today. Moves are definitely improving. So is speed and sharpness.
You can take a “baby” move like 3 hip circles traveling and one in place totally for granted. But do you stop the final circle abruptly? I didn’t before [...]
Because I’d said so here, I ended up making sure I stuck to the plan and did in fact finish up learning Flow 1 from this video. It was quite tiring. I’d liken it to say, Shape Up ‘n Hip Out’s Rhythm Hips section in terms of pace. Also Neon’s own Belly Dance Party. But [...]
I worked with the first flow from Bellydance Rhythms. It was quite fun!
The format really lets you do a lot with this. It’s definitely a workout because I had to turn the fan on (It’s officially winter here) and I didn’t do as much of the routine as I wanted to. Of course I [...]
Come to think of it, there are many instructional videos in this sub genre. There’s The Heartbeat of Belly Dance from the same producers, World Dance New York, there’s Sonia and Issam’s Art of the Drum Solo, the rhythms video by Saida with Mario Kirlis, and probably a few more I haven’t encountered. Each [...]
Well, I don’t know of too many DVDs where belly work is broken down. Sure, many dancers (Sadie, Princess Farhana, Delilah and others) put in some pointers on stomach work. But remember Johanna ‘Xenobia’ Krynytzky? The one who had all those folkloric steps on ExpertVillage? Well, she has a series out on belly work. She [...]
Blanca’s visit here is nearly over. I miss her already. She so turns out to be what I imagined. Fun to be with, beautiful, spontaneous and wholehearted in her enjoyment of things, sensitive, sweet - and a powerful dancer even when not doing a whole performance. Even when she’s showing me a move or [...]
Look at her go! That pretty Christabel Zamor with her wonderful figure! She looks so sexy and joyous with that hoop!
Hooping looks so much fun and so liberating! Christabel says 80 year old women have been able to do it. Oh well. So anyway, I got myself two hoops and tried it out. I couldn’t [...]
Even as someone learning to belly dance, I was never prepared for the level of detail Ava Fleming goes into on this instructional video. Take the posture section, for instance. She spends a whole ten minutes explaining every bit of the posture you should be in. she gives you reasons, shows you errors, and [...]