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Got Strategy? What the Top Performing Dancers Know That You Don’t

To those dancers wishing to take their dance performances to much greater levels… This article is not for dancers that dance for recreational or personal enrichment. While dancing to gain performance experience is helpful in some regards, many improvement-driven dancers leave a few important things out. These are things that can make a much greater impact on their dancing and help them get to the skills and level of performance that they truly desire. In this article, I will share with…

10 Ways to Annoy Belly Dance Show Producers (Short of Cancellation)

Anna shows you 10 ways to annoy belly dance show producers (Short of Cancellation), as well as tips to help you avoid driving producers crazy. Producing events is tough work, but you can help the folks that give so much to our dance community by making their life easier, by being considerate and diligent when you sign up to dance in their shows. Beware that you do not commit too many of these, as show producers greatly appreciate dancers that…

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How to do A Belly Dance Chest Undulation

Learn how to do the Belly Dance Forward & Reverse Chest Undulations. Taught by Anna at Ahlam Academy of Middle Eastern Dance in Houston TX. Chest Undulations are comprised of two basic belly dance movements the chest slides forward and back and the chest lift and drop. You can layer chest undulations over various foot patterns, like the “step cross”, and use them to express different emotions. Learn those here: Chest Slides Chest Lift & Drop

Horizontal Chest Circle

In this video, Anna teaches you the horizontal chest circle, aka the ribcage circle. She will show you how to take the chest slides/ribcage slides you already know and turn them into a chest /ribcage circle. This is a beautiful move to show off the fluidity in your torso. Don’t know how to do the chest/ribcage slides? Click here to watch the tutorial

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Vertical Chest Circle

The Chest Circle, sometimes called a Ribcage Circle, is a popular smooth and sensual movement used in belly dancing. This move works well with slow music, sword and floor work. It’s also one of those movements that feels good to do because it doubles as a great stretch, increasing flexibility in the back and core muscles.

Ending Your Performance on a High Note

We’ve all seen it! The performer ends their dance or performance set…and then – NOTHING. They leave the stage with ZERO fanfare. The energy drops and the audience is left feeling that vacuum, and maybe they are also a little confused. The audience feels this void because even though the dancer was great and brought the energy in the midst of their performance, they ended with a low vibe like an unpleasant aftertaste. Who wants this? So, how do you end…

How to do the Step Together Step Traveling Step

Anna will teach you one of the most used traveling steps in belly dancing – the step together step. Includes demonstrations of three popular layers you can use on top of this simple footwork: the hip circle, the tush push, and the hip-over. Enjoy!

How to do the Step Touch Traveling Step

Learn the basic step touch traveling step, plus two popular variations and arm movement suggestion, including posture details.

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