I am so excited to share with you this performance video from my amazing students!
This choreography is βDar y Dar – Spanish Skirt Passionβ created by myself and the incredible Silvia Salamanca. It is performed here by my beautiful students, The Shimmy Sisterhood, at the Crimson Vagabond 2022.
Enjoy!οΏΌ
PS. If you love the choreography, you can totally learn it with me online! Grab your skirt and head on over to my online studio to get the full course.
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Music is “Dar y Dar” by the amazing Mango Punch from Houston, Texas.
Welcome to another video in my “Top 10 Moves That Every Belly Dancer Should Know” series.
The Triplet Shimmy is a quintessential belly dance move, but it is often broken down in a way that makes it confusing for dancers to work with them when they speed it up.
In this video I will give you a clear step-by-step breakdown that will help you dance this movement with confidence and grace.
This is such a high-energy move and one of the best shimmies for traveling. So tie on your hip scarf and let’s dance!
In this intermediate-level tutorial I am going to show you a seriously snaky belly dance combination and then teach you how to make it even better….with finger cymbals!
Many dancers shy away from the finger cymbals because they aren’t sure how to play them cleanly, what to play or when to play them.
Don’t be a zill wall-flower!
Join me as I teach you step-by-step a simple, yet interesting zill pattern that we will then add to a slow and snaky belly dance combination.
Tie on your hip scarf, grab your finger cymbals and let’s dance!
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Are you ready to banish finger cymbal doubt and learn to play with confidence, creativity and grace? Register for my “Fabulous Finger Cymbal Basics” course and build a solid foundation for rockstar zilling!
Enjoy this exclusive sneak peek into one of my most popular online courses – “Fabulous Finger Cymbal Basics”. The step-by-step course you need to learn to play the finger cymbals and dance with confidence and joy!
In this video, you will learn how to play the Masmoudi – a fabulous and versatile rhythm – so you can add it to your finger cymbal practice today!
This revolutionary course includes step-by-step technique, drills and riffs, a course workbook, downloadable audio practice files, a practice music playlist, a fabulous combination with finger cymbals and more to help you become the zillstar you are meant to be.
Use this special code for 15% off in celebration of Finger Cymbal February!
The small walk-in closet that I’ve been using to store my costumes is about to burst! Something has to be done.
Not only does it store the costumes I use for my shows on a weekly basis, but it also contains my stash of Renaissance Festival costumes, historic Urban Hipsy tribal costumes and troupe costumes for groups of dancers needing: Saidi dresses, Assuit thobes, Malaya dresses, Bollywood costumes, Hula costumes, Tahitian costumes, Persian Folklore dresses and more. (Not to mention that my formal gowns, sewing machines and my daughter’s dresses live in this closet too!)
I’ve been avoiding this task for months… but finally it just had to be done.
So join me to see the before (don’t judge me!), and I will talk you through how I Marie Condo’d the darn thing, show you what all came out of the closet (OMG!) and show you how I reorganized it into a place that I literally want to live inside of.
If you are a dancer needing a bit of costume organization in your life, you are going to LOVE this video.
So join me for this tour of my costume closet before and after!
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Extra special thanks to Miss Thea for the music used in this video. You can support her on BandCamp at missthea.bandcamp.com
Balancing a prop on your head while you are belly dancing can cause panic in even the most experienced dancer.
In this video I am going to share with you three game-changing tips I have learned after over two decades of belly dancing while balancing a variety of interesting things on my head.
So dive in to this special tutorial with me! You can use a sword, pot, cane, candle tray, shamadan or even a heavy book to dance along with me and learn what you need to know to become a master belly dance prop balancer!
Now that you know how to balance a prop on your head, you are ready to learn a beautiful choreography utilizing your new-found skills.
Join me for a folkloric fusion choreography intensive – The “Abdelqader Djilani Pot Dance Choreography Intensive” and learn a fabulous new balancing choreography in just five weeks!
Are you ready to master the belly dance balancing act?
In this free masterclass you will learn some of the best insider tips and tricks to belly dancing confidently with a prop balanced on your head.
I will show you step by step the βdosβ and βdonβtsβ that can make or break your prop balancing performance and even share with you a combination from an original choreography that will let you utilize all your new-found balancing knowledge.
I have spent the last two decades putting together a stellar toolkit of tips, tricks, techniques and concepts that help ALL my students balance and dance with ease!
Now I am going to share these ideas with YOU in a jam-packed masterclass designed to give you the prop balancing confidence you need while teaching you an awesome dance combination that you are gonna love.
And I’m offering it to you for FREE – but it’s a limited time thing.
Sign up now for The Belly Dance Balancing Act and get
β game-changing tips and tricks for prop balancing
β belly dance technique step-by-step breakdown
β a greater sense of confidence and grace
β a brand-new dance combination!
This interactive Zoom class is designed for dancers with some basic belly dance experience – but I will break down all the technique you need to follow along and learn an awesome belly dance balancing combination you can take home and call your own.
So join me for this limited time workshop and get ready to master the balancing act.
Learn a fabulous belly dance combination with ease and joy with this fun combination tutorial.
In this video I use my 2+ decades of experience teaching and performing belly dance to show you the most important things to focus on when learning this beautiful art form.
So whether you are new to the dance, or returning to the art form and ready for a short and sweet combination to get you moving today, you are in the right place!
In this video I will teach you step-by-step how to do THREE quintessential belly dance movements:
β The Hip Drop/Release
β The Grapevine
β Horizontal Figure 8 Hips
And then we will put these moves together into a fancy little combination that will have you up and belly dancing right away!
Are you ready to belly dance?
Let’s do it!
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After this taste I know you are hungry for more and ready to dive deeper into the dance. (I like that in a dancer!) Grab my FREE 7-Day Belly Dance Jumpstart here and make this the year you learn to belly dance. ππ»
But there are very few dancers who take the cymbals to the next level and make them the center of intense academic research.
Dr. Audrey Cottet is one of those few, and in this video I’m excited to share with you an incredible discussion we had regarding her experience with finger cymbals, the very unique way in which she learned to play them, and how her interest became the seed for some amazing historical research that is changing our understanding of these instruments.
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After watching this interview I know you will be inspired to learn from Dr. Cottet – so be sure to check out her lecture happening on January 29.
You can also access the research she has previously published about finger cymbal history and usage here:
