This foundation is completed by the precise shift of the center of gravity and the combination of the strength of the leg and the core muscle group. Many people dance, which makes people feel empty and insignificant. We must work hard on the foundation, and only when the foundation is stable can there be room for development.
2 Body opening
Chest, waist, shoulders, ankles and instep. Soft opening is one of the basic skills of a dancer, but physical opening is not enough. A beautiful basic step can't be practiced even a hundred times. Because you are still an ordinary person's ligament structure, although oriental dance is not as demanding as ballet national dance, it will really affect your dance. Sometimes your steps are not atmospheric just because your hips are not open enough. Shrugging your shoulders may be because you can't put your shoulders back, but you can only go up.
3 Breathe
Generally speaking, gait uses chest breathing. The foundation is the point, the figure is the face, and the breath is the line. Inhale if you want to stretch your body high, exhale if you want to relax your body soft, and hold your breath is death. The reason why you hold your breath is because you push too hard, or this action is beyond your control, so you need to catch your breath. Or nervous, or insufficient use of vital capacity, or shallow breathing in life will be more hypoxic.
Dance characteristics of belly dance
Belly dance originated in the Middle East. It was originally used as a religious ceremony to describe the endless cycle of nature and human reproduction, to praise women's fertility and the mystery of life. This can explain why belly dancing takes the swing of the abdomen as the main action and requires barefoot in order to keep in touch with the land. This dance form gradually developed into a folk art, and eventually became a unique entertainment and performance form widely popular in the Middle East countries, and it is a wonderful flower in the mysterious Arab culture and art garden.
Belly dance is a very feminine dance, which is characterized by swinging the abdomen and vigorously dancing the arms and chest with the ever-changing fast pace. These movements become belly dancing, which is unbreakable in traditional dance techniques. Belly dancing must be performed on a smooth floor, barefoot dancing, accompanied by music, extremely fast and complicated emotional body movements and fast dance steps, just like foxtrot in Europe and America.
Of course, belly dancing can be solo without accompaniment, and the unique romantic Arabic music is more dynamic. Common accompaniment instruments such as UT piano, Ney, Debrec tambourine, dulcimer, etc. Among them, the percussion tambourine is particularly important. When dancers perform the unique skill of twisting the waist and dancing the belly, the addition of drums is dynamic.
Belly dance also combines other props, such as snakes, swords, veils, candles, flames and so on. The appearance of these props may be influenced by ancient belly dancing and mysterious religious ceremonies. Some countries in the Middle East still respect these highly dramatic and mysterious performances. Especially the intricate snake skills, snakes symbolize men and women, hermaphroditic snakes, very strange, full of Arab mystery.
After thousands of years of interpretation, belly dancing has become a secret weapon for women: you are confident in your body and feel beautiful, so you dance your body like running water, waves and burning flames with the rhythm of Middle Eastern music, express yourself freely with your body, imagine your arms are the wings of an angel, dance the head of a snake, and swing your hips and body sexily, which is very tempting and provocative.