Belly Dancing for Fitness by Tamalyn Dallal

Author:Tamalyn Dallal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2010-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

Combinations & Choreography

Belly dance is not a rigid art form based on choreography or limited technique. Once you know the basic movements, you constantly strive to improve your technique as a tool for expressing yourself, dancing out your own individuality. Choreography is used for performances, especially those by more than one dancer; although choreography is used extensively in Egypt and Lebanon, it is a nontraditional Western concept, added to belly dance during the 20th century.

Belly dance is typically improvised. In live performance, the musicians may take an established song and improvise within it, much like jazz.The dancer improvises, too. Sometimes the musicians follow her; other times she follows them. It is an exchange of energy.

A dance performance is like writing a story, with an opening, middle, and end.There is an established format for opening movements, using mellow walking, turning, or skipping steps with the veil. The middle can be whatever the dancer, musicians, and audience make it.The closing is, again, simple and unobtrusive, including walking, skipping, and turning.

As soon as you feel comfortable with the individual movements, try putting them together in the “Easy” combinations that follow in the chart on page 40. Repeat the same sequence of movements for the duration of the song. In the following weeks, as you learn more movements, move on to the “Medium” and “Challenging” ones. Once you learn how the movements flow into one another, unleash your imagination and invent your own combinations.

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