This week, we worked on Shimmy Layering, and we were building on the Abdominal work we did last week, to move towards the Camel (or Undulation).
Layering is essentially where you have two (or even more) things going on at once. So a Shimmy layer is where your basic movement is the shimmy, and you add something to it, in this case, a sideways extension or a body twist. To start with, as with any other shimmy, we can do it nice and slow and easy, so that we can see how the shimmy and the layer work together. Then we can build up speed.
The camel is one of the loveliest bellydance moves (well, *I* think so), and it really is "belly" dancing! The abdominal work with weight shift that we did last week is the base for the camel move, and the key to it is the pelvic roll generated by the combination of the weight shift back and the abdominal pull in & release.
Home practice - try either the Shimmy layers or the Camel.
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