Learn How to Belly Dance: Complete Guide from A to Z
$49.99
What you’ll learn
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17 hours of step-by-step instructions, dance practice, and everything you want to know about belly dance.
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Basic belly dance rhythms, fundamentals of dancing with a veil, related folklore styles, and other things that are essential to know right from the beginning.
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Various belly dance movements: shimmies, belly rolls, hips movements, undulations, chest isolations, and many others!
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Knowledge to understand music, costume fashion, essential parts of a belly dance show, and cultural environment of this dance.
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Skills to put all learnt movements into dance combinations, and simply enjoy dancing to the music.
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Full belly dance routine (drum solo choreography).
Belly dance is a fascinating art form that started in the Middle East, but today it is practiced all across the globe by people of all shapes, sizes and ages.
Through belly dance you can train muscles that no other activity can reach, strengthen your core, develop flexibility and achieve graceful and fluid body coordination. Moreover, belly dance will give you benefits beyond just physical ones, such as a boost in self-confidence, reconnecting your mind with your body and practicing self-love and self-care.
My name is Iana Komarnytska. I came to my first belly dance class 16 years ago, and I had no idea it would change my life so much. Today I’m a full-time award winning professional dancer and choreographer, and I have been teaching and performing belly dance in many countries around the world.
I created this course with one thought in my mind: to create the resource I wish I had when I was starting my belly dance journey! The result is a complete belly dance guide for beginners, with over 100 video tutorials teaching you step-by-step all basic movements (shimmies, belly rolls, circles, undulations and more), in more than 14 hours of dance practice, lectures, drills and combinations.
This course is ideal for those who never had any experience in belly dance, or even dance in general, as well as for those who may have already began their belly dance journey and want to take their skills to the next level with solid foundations.
I designed this course in a simple manner that you can adapt to your needs, whether you have only 15 mins or several hours to practice. Each section combines a related group of movements with a detailed explanation of each one, and a summary dance combination to practice new skills. You will also get an overview of the most important rhythms, folklore styles, principles of dancing with veil, and dozens of dance combinations for polishing your technique.
Our final sections consist of dance practice to four different types of belly dance songs, and learning a complete belly dance routine to an exciting drum solo music. In addition, you will find several bonus sections with lectures about topics related to belly dance such as costumes, props, music, and the cultural environment of this dance, as well as resources to continue your belly dance learning.
By the end of the course you will be able not only to perform all major belly dance moves such as hip drops, undulations, figure 8, and maya, but also layer them on top of different shimmies, perform to specific rhythms, and even to incorporate some props into your dance.
All you need to begin is to be interested in exploring the beauty of dance, transforming your body and spirit with a fun physical activity, and learning to appreciate and love yourself.
What are you waiting for? Jump in and start belly dancing today.
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners.
- Continuing students (1-3 years of practice) who know some basics but want to push their technique to the next level.
Cassandra –
This course was a good match for me because I am able to go back and practice some moves I have forgotten to do and the instructure makes its simple to understand how the moves are executed.
Alpna Tirkey –
It was a good decision to go for this course. Almost all topics were covered which a beginner is required to know about. My most favourite section was about those folklore style, costumes, rhytms and knowledge about tabla. Thanks Iana..
Jennifer Hancock –
I have taken the other belly dance classes, this one by far is the BEST one I have ever taken! I highly recommend this class if you are very serious about learning the art of belly dance. I was well worth my time and money on this course! And also the instructor hit it right on the nail of the cultural aspects of the Ancient Egyptian dance! Very happy with this purchase!
Jessica Rose Dyer –
Absolutely loving this course, it is really perfect and amazingly presented!
Robert buckley –
The descriptions of movement and positions are very clear.
Xia Xiang –
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Sam Ibrahim –
She is so amazing and breaks it down for you
Elizabeth –
Es clara y sencilla
Sandra Peeters –
Zeer uitgebreide cursus door een ervaren danser. Haar uitleg is duidelijk en meteen toepasbaar. Ze heeft veel aandacht voor details.
Nikita Finlay –
This is a perfect course for beginners, Iana is a fantastic teacher and explains the moves very thouroughly, showing correct technique and important nuances. There’s lots of material to work through and come back to. I cannot recommend this enough to anyone who seriously wants to take belly dance up as a hobby.
Cirnex Kottalapalli –
Very enjoyable and simple to follow. Adherence to practice and completion in this course could result in some real skills. I do as a hobby solely and just love discovering new muscles in my upper body I never knew could move.
Brenda Bechtel –
This horse is amazing there is so much information and knowledge packed into this course I am very happy with everything I have learned and the fact that I can go back and review it as often as I like is amazing.