What was covered in beginner and intermediate

Last night in beginner we discussed the various styles of belly dance is it is practiced around the world today. We also talked about the Middle Eastern rhythm maksoum and how to recognize it. We then reviewed the moves covered last week and learned pelvic tucks and drops, weighted hip lifts, the hip lift shimmy, rib cage lifts and drops, omis (interior hip circles) and vertical rib cage circles.

In intermediate we reviewed the three beginner level rhythms (falahi, maksoum and masmoudi) and discussed chiftitelli. We then discussed the timing when playing threes with finger cymbals. After our warm up we reviewed our lower body accent drill and learned the upper body accent drill. We then reviewed the ¾ shimmy on both the up and the down and learned the heel drop shimmy, accented belly pops, camel walk (both single and double) u-turn undulation, side hip figure 8 (both directions), traveling and turning with up to down undulations (stepping flat, ball, ball, ball) and barrel turns. We learned the right side of the Happy Birthday Grapevine (tribal combo by Unamata).