Belly Dance Layering Tutorial – Shaabi Figure 8
Early in my belly dance journey I was always searching for new moves… I was hungry for more, more, more and always wanted to learn the latest and greatest movements the belly dance world had to offer – like an avid collector wanting to complete the entire set. (Collect them all!)
Now, over two decades later, I think I might have finally done it.
WHAT!?! (I can hear you saying it from here.) You’ve learned ALL the moves? Impossible!
Hear me out – me saying that I’ve learned all the moves does not mean that I have nothing more to learn. In fact, I believe I will never get to that point. Never.
But you see, from a certain perspective there are only so many movements within this beautiful dance style. But there are INFINITE variations. These variations in texture, feeling, style and layering are what allow you to bring your own personal flare to the dance and this is what it’s really all about.
And it’s also exactly what I am going to dive into in today’s video tutorial – The Shaabi Figure 8. We are going to take our humble horizontal figure 8 and play with it – adding and subtracting layers and texture – to create a figure 8 that just might surprise and delight you!
Wanna play?
Let’s dance!
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A huge thank you to the amazing Miss Thea for the use of her music in this video. You can get her album “Siren Dream” on her Bandcamp here: https://missthea.bandcamp.com