If there’s something special about Bozenka’s “Every Shimmy in the Book” I’m afraid I couldn’t find it. I’ve seen more detailed shimmy instruction on general belly dance videos, forget shimmy-specialized ones. Bozenka shimmies real smooth and pretty. But what’s the fuss about?
First of all let me point out that this certainly is [...]
Here’s a list of videos that have chiftitelli choreographies or moves. I’m also including ones that don’t necessarily take up chiftitelli but are helping me dance better to the rhythm and improvise to it. These are just videos in my own collection and there probably one or two out in the wild that I [...]
This couldn’t have been an easy instructional video to conceptualize. The number of videos that take up slow moves or taqsim or moves to the chiftitelli rhythm, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Quite obviously none of them does a thorough job because everyone still keeps talking of wanting a taqsim [...]