Learning bellydance is an amazing personal makeover experience
welcoming women of any age, size or shape. It infuses your everyday
movement with sensual flair and confidence, helps you rediscover and
enjoy the power of femininity and the seductive grace woven by nature
into the curves of your body.
Bellydance: First Steps for Total Beginners
is a step-by-step bellydance instruction program presented in a
continuous movement format. Created by Neon, trend-setting instructor
acclaimed for her innovative fast-track methods of teaching beginners
and supportive, nurturing style, First Steps takes you from basic moves
to graceful and sensual bellydance combinations through non-stop
practice with beautiful uplifting music. Move and dance from the very
first step!
The program consists of 48 2-3
min. segments systematically teaching all major types of bellydance
steps. Each segment breaks down, explains and drills a basic
bellydance move and an easy-to-grasp combination that shows how to use
it. The movement starts slowly, then progresses to full speed. Neon
offers detailed tips and visualisations promoting correct, solid and
safe technique from the very start, and carefully cues each move and
combination for easy following.
In Bellydance First Steps for Total Beginners
a consistent system of animated onscreen graphics is superimposed on
Neon's moving image to present dance moves as trajectories following
geometric shapes, and effectively interpret movement angles and
directions, promoting accelerated learning.
The
48 segments of the program are assembled into 12 sessions - each
session is capped with a movement review (a Dance Party section)
practicing all the steps and combinations covered in the preceding
session.
The 12 sessions cover
* rhythmic hips and steps (releasing the hips, getting attuned to rhythm)
* bellydance percussive hipwork 1 & 2
* combining bellydance footwork with hipwork
* fluid bellydance hipwork
* combining fluid and percussive hipwork
* upper body moves and accents
* combining fluid hipwork and upper body accents
* easy hipwork combinations
* challenging hipwork combinations
* challenging fluid movements
* shimmy
The DVD edition of First Steps for Total Beginners
also offers a 25 minute flow featuring only the Dance Party segments
for advanced beginner practice, and two versions of the entire program
- with music and voice cues, and with music only for every day practice.
