It's half term next week (no classes next week - see you on 23rd Feb), so as usual I opened the Technique part of the class to Student Requests. Fortunately, the requests turned out to be Hip drops, and that's what I'd already planned to cover. We recapped the basic hip drop (very quickly), and the drop 123-kick that we did last week.
We also went over the hip drop with the twist to the front or back. The key thing to remember with that one is that the twist happens in between the drops, when the hip is lifted up and ready for the drop.
We also worked on Arms & Hands. We started with a basic drill which can work with any hip action:
We used a piece of music that I love. It's called Mawoud, and this version is by a singer called Sherine:
We just used the first part of it, because it's got no rhythm behind it, and it's quite flowing and a bit emotional, so hopefully it's nice for you to use for arms practice.
I wanted this to be a bit more than just Technique, so we did some exercises to think about the energy that we can bring to our hand actions:
They're a bit silly, perhaps, but hopefully they give you some new ways to think about how you use your arms and hands when you're dancing.
Home practice ideas over half term:
Try the Arms Drill video and the Silly Exercises video.
Or keep working on the Choreography to Hayatak Fi Soura.
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