Star Bellydancer Online Belly Dance Classes

Belly dance veil practice / performance choreography - step-by-step instruction and practice from the top for each combination. Level - intermediate.

Practice hipwork drills with a step-by-step breakdown of each combination. Level: Intermediate-Advanced

In this practice choreography we explore different ways to travel, switching between directions and diagonals and fine-tuning your position on stage in a showy and dramatic manner. We'll take our travel steps beyond a string of belly dance moves and make them a way of reaching out to your audience.

Today we'll play with the sexy/sensual mode in bellydance. How sexy can you be in belly dance without destroying its look and feel We'll discuss, explore and put a few sexy moves together into a 2-minute practice 'sensual vignette'.

Today we continue our balancing drills - we'll cover percussive moves: hipwork and upper body percussive accents. So prepare your balancing object - a sword, a tray, a shemadan or just a book. Remember, as always, that the heavier your balancing prop, the easier it is to balance.

Our goal in this class is to become more daring in mixing familiar steps. We'll deconstruct a few classic bellydance hipwork and footwork patterns to come up with fresh fun moves.

Today we'll work on isolations for balancing acts. And it's not just for balancing acts. If you are not interested in balancing a sword, a tray of candles or a shemadan, resist temptation to skip this class. These drills will make you a better dancer with more organic and precise isolations, simp...

After a short warmup and long technique flow, this class teaches and practices a lyrical sequence set to music adapted from Rimsky-Korsakov's “Scheherezade,” specially arranged for Oriental Dance.

If you perform for Western audiences, it's hard to get away with the never-ending shimmy sections, Egyptian-style, because the Western eye expects more movement from a dancer, and our Western dance is always footwork-driven. A strategy I want to play with today is using shimmy in bursts or splash...

Today we'll work with gliding and swirling footwork, and the type of fluid unhurried movement that we often associate with rumba-type rhythm in bellydance music. You often see this movement in a lyrical entrance pieces, or in dancing with the veil, American Cabaret style. When you learn veil danc...

Oriental dance routines always have a section of cinematic music that is larger than life - sometimes it's a grand entrance, and sometimes it's a refrain. This is a very melodic section with a soaring, swirling melody and dramatic accents. We'll add that choreographic grandness to our Oriental da...

When you have an organized understanding of principles and build on a rock-solid foundation, not only do you get better faster and with less effort, but you have more fun in class and take more satisfaction from
your practice. So let's make sure your ducks are in a row! This course takes a detai...

Improvising an organic and vocabulary-rich belly dance drum solo is a challenge for most dancers. How to approach building your improvisational skills? Neon offers a method to reset your thinking about improvising a drum solo, and compares using the same dance vocabulary in an improvisation and i...

Learn and practice a series of 3 combinations set to music excerpted from the Egyptian classic "Lessa Faker." This combos feature "seam-free construction:" each movement leads into the next, facilitating your mastery of clean lines and confident transitions in advanced-level vocabulary.

Intermediate-level belly dance combinations and showmanship tips for a party-style belly dance performance. Step-by-step and practice with music. 57min. class from the StarBellydancer online school series. Music: Al Ain Mulayatain by Amir Naoum Chehade and Elias Sarkar from album "Bellydance New ...

Four lyrical combinations falling into a mini-choreography to work on pacing, fluid motion, and stage showmanship. Neon also discusses the ways your costuming affects your movement. Music: Pharaonic Passion by Beata and Horacio Cifuentes "Belly dance songs are often constructed of pieces with dif...

This follow-along nonstop technique flow begins with a
short warmup, quickly drills the foundation building blocks of ribcage circles, and leads into a practice for unlayered ribcage circle isolations using several arm positions. Then we practice ribcage circles in layered variations—with arm ...

Today we'll work with 2 Oriental Dance modes: distinctive, dramatic accent cascades and easy party-style dancing. These two modes are found in practically any Oriental dance song or instrumental composition. While accent cascades are static, the casual, party-style dancing prompts travel steps, t...

0:52 Belly Dance "Circle" Veil Routine with Neon; Open Level. A mini-routine module for improvisational bellydance performance with a veil - great as part of a picture-perfect dance entrance. "As you start your performmance, your audience wants to check out your costume and body, they frantically...

Shemadan/Belly Dance Candelabrum dance combinations Class 1 - combinations step-by-step and practice, plus a non-stop candelabrum routine to develop technique and showmanship skills for professional candelabrum performance. Music: "Bint el Shalibiyeh-Middle" from the album Lavender by Middle-Ear...

How to keep your upper body belly dance moves organically woven into the texture of your dance movement, as opposed to having them thrown in as random embellishments? "We learn belly dance through isolations and one of the side effects is, sometimes we keep this totally isolated mode even when we...

This follow-along technique flow drills the family of moves that build on tilts at the hip joint, starting with foundation building blocks and then advancing through progressively more complex material. We flow through: weighted side-to-side tilts, in place, traveling with push and pull steps, on...

Oriental Dance / Belly Dance Taksim with Fluid Accents - with Neon - Oriental Dance taksim practice combinations and mini-choreography using fluid-trajectory accents and shimmy layering. "Taksim showcases improvisational artistry of melodic instruments and often includes call and response mode wi...

Glide-Anchor-Pull: Quickie Combo 3 - Autumn Ward, music: "To Morocco with the Stars"

Belly dance travel step patterns for improvisational dance - triplets and 3/4 shimmy steps with Neon - combinations and practice with music; Level - beginner-intermediate

Advanced technique for basic classic belly dance steps such as hip lifts/drops and simple travel steps. Are you performing these basic belly dance steps with the same technique you learned as a beginner? Time to revamp them and re-learn them to give your dance movement even more sophisticated and...

This quickie class starts with a 24-minute warmup and technique flow, then we'll dance through a 32-count combo with pivots, full-body undulations, and fast double drops.

Belly Dance Fluid Accents Technique and Practice with Neon. Technique and practice for challenging lower and upper body belly dance accents based on fluid move trajectories. "This is something we don’t do as belly dance beginners: Learning and using this vocabulary is, in a way, a rite of passage...

Masmoudi Rhythm - Belly dance Combinations for Sword Dance and Practice with Neon: "We’ll review masmoudi structure and recall how to catch its accents, and also treat it as a slow beat perfect for a bellydance prop balancing act. The combinations I have selected for us today are all designed to ...

Belly Dance Shimmy Layering Step-by-Step with Neon; Level : Intermediate/Advanced Why some hipwork trajectories are easy to combine with hip shimmy and others are hard? Try a step-by-step systematic approach to shimmy layering: Theory and Practice with Neon!

"Assemble and dance four 16-count combinations into a long flow with a nice mix of crisp and elastic elements. Once we have the sequence of steps down, we'll map the combos onto several different pieces of music, working on transforming technique into expressive dance movement by making our movem...

Level: Low Intermediate and up
This class teaches and practices a little over a minute of easy-paced choreography with three distinct sections: gliding travel steps and turns; an earthy shimmy; and slow sinuous vertical-plane up figure-8s. Class includes a short warmup, a short technique flow f...

Twisting Undulation: Intermediate-Advanced Belly Dance Technique and 30-min. Non-Stop Practice. Combinations and choreography taught in a non-dtop dance with music format. "Belly dance is taught through isolations, an important element of belly dance aesthetics. However, focus on isolations often...

Belly Dance Hipwork - Tight, Sharp Accents - Technique and Practice with Neon; Level: Beginner/Intermediate - Improve your control of articulation and range of motion when performing tight, small hipwork accents. Neon discusses using your abdominal muscles, glutes and psoas to control your hip/kn...

Fluid hipwork technique practice flow (non-stop with music) to increase precision and motion range of your belly dance hipwork . Open level. This is a conditioning and technique practice class - it has no breakdown of bellydance hipwork moves - only practice of individual moves and simple combina...

Develop precision with foundational rotating articulations for crystal-clean placement and transitions.

Dramatic Dance and Body Language Accents with Neon - Adding head turns, hair tosses, arm and hand gestures and other accents to your belly dance vocabulary: Technique aqnd Combinations ; Level: Intermediate
Music: "Saptak-Samaya Mix-Solace" from the album Eastern Grooves by DJ Cary; "Karuna" ...

Lama Bada Belly Dance Choreography Course with Neon. Learn a multitude of semai rhythm combinations that fall together into an evocative and dramatic bellydance choreography. Step-by-step + practice with music. Level: Intermediate-Advanced, "Today we’ll start learning a choreography to Lama Bada,...

Shemadan/Belly Dance Candelabrum dance combinations Class 1 - combinations step-by-step and practice, plus a non-stop candelabrum routine to develop technique and showmanship skills for professional candelabrum performance. Music: "Bint el Shalibiyeh-Middle" from the album Lavender by Middle-Ear...

0:43 Belly dance hipwork and arms coordination practice with Neon: 30-min movement flow featuring coordination practice for bellydance hipwork and arm paths/frames. Level beginner-intermediate

Go beyond the retro "Oriental arms" to fluid and evocative arm movement. Neon shares her technique of adding powerful expressivity to every arm path and gesture + practice with music. Level: Open

Belly dance ciftetelli rhythm with Neon - rhythm structure, variations, combinations. "Because ciftetelli is perceived as a slow belly dance rhythm, very often the melody is improvisation played on oud, violin, ney (arabic flute) or keyboard, - any melodic instrument. So as dancers we can’t think...

A 2-minute elegant and evocative belly dance choreography featuring Neon's fluidity drills/combinations. Level: Intermediate - Advanced

Instruction and practice of belly dance moves and trajectories esential for developing and enhancing fluidity of your dance - with Neon. We'll work on the upper-lower body coordinations needed to support your hipwork and full body angle changes in belly dance. The drills from this class are also ...

Belly dance combinations/drills designed to increase abdominal engagement as you perform common belly dance steps. We'll also practice supporting our hipwork with organic upper body trajectories. The combinations presented in this class are also featured in Neon's "Eternal Feminine" choreography....

Bellydance Footwork Patterns and Combinations step-by-step breakdown and practice with Neon; Level - Beginner-Intermediate

Orientalist Arms - Gestures, Patterns, Combinations with Neon: Evocative, lyrical arm patterns and gestures for belly dance - step-by-step plus practice in mini-combinations; Level: Open

Belly dance Hipwork Practice Choreography with Neon. 10 belly dance hip work combinations into a practice choreography: Breakdown step-by-step and practice - each bellydance combinations separately and together to the choreography song.
"Enta Wa Bass Instrumental" by Beata and Horacio Cifuentes ...

elly dance baladi rhythm with Neon - rhythm structure, variations, combinations. "Baladi” in Egyptian Arabic means “home town/village”, or neighborhood, as opposed to anything coming from a fancy big city upscale cultural realm or influenced by Western culture. Baladi music and dance are basica...

You can’t have that fluid, connected, expressive movement in bellydance if you are not supporting your hipwork or armwork with spinal articulation - body waves and rotation. Learn to fully engage your spine on every step. Level: Intermediate

1:06 Belly dance travel step patterns for improvisational dance with Neon - 2-count steps - strategy, step-by-step, and practice; Level - beginner-intermediate

1:06 Belly dance with wings - mini-course with Neon - Class 1 Technique and Practice. Neon teaches technique, vocabulary and showmanship of belly dance with the wings of Isis with emphasis on improvisational dance. Level: Open Music: "Ottoman Lobotomy" from the album Kara Nomadica by Kara Nomadi...

Percussive hipwork technique practice flow (non-stop with music) to increase precision and motion range of your belly dance hipwork . Open level. This is a conditioning and technique practice class - it has no breakdown of bellydance hipwork moves - only practice of individual moves and simple co...

Belly Dance Grooves - Improvisational Practice with Tanna Valentine: Dance-along flows with a rhythm or movement theme (big arms circles, drum solo, ciftetelli) and voice cues to prompt transitioning to a new set of moves. 4 flows: Gateway Groove, Big Arm Circles, Drum Solo, Ciftetelli.

A tutorial on the Middle-Eastern 2-handed snap or
"Persian" snap, followed by tips on how to incorporate the snap into belly dance presented in cultural context.

In today's class we'll practice clean details that make entrance and
travel sequences look polished, professional, and fully put together.
Building on a simple footwork sequence—step-hold, step, step—we'll
create interest by varying the styling for count 2, the hold. First
we'll practice laye...

How many hip drops and double drops do you know? How many do you use? Our workshop today gives you options, and, more importantly, context for how, where, and why to use those options. Our primary focus is style and stylization, but because we need a solid foundation to create successful variatio...

STEP-BY-STEP SECTIONS

1. Grip
2. Basic Principles
3. walking
4. poofing
5. crossover
6. shoulder to shoulder
7. sagittal swirl
8. close front and open
9. close up and close down
10.figure 8
11. catch and release
12. twist and drop
13. footwork
14. direction change under the veil
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Belly dance technique, vocabulary and the "River" veil bellydance choreography with Autumn Ward. Each class includes warmup, technique section, practice movement flow and choreography.

Infinity Loops and Steps - Infinity Loops hipwork trajectories layered on steps in belly dance combinations with Neon. Step-by-step combinations breakdown + 30 min of practice with music. Also available: 30-min. version: combinations practice only, non-stop. Music: "The River" from the album Se...

Each class includes a warmup, technique and vocabulary section, choreography breakdown, technique movement flow and choreography practice sections.

1. Belly Dance Arm Embellishments Technique Drill with Autumn Ward A follow-along bellydance technique flow for arms, hands, wrists and elbows. Included: amplifying wrist articulations and sweeps; wrist circles; elbow circles; arm undulations...Build stamina and maintain clean technique with this...