Arabic dance steps and postures

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Steps, Movements and Postures of thw Arabic Oriental Dance

Dancers are considered different because they do "muscle dance" as opposed to European dances such as "step." In the traditional Arab dance knee is never carried above the hip. Variations allow for dancing, even while the dancer is sitting or kneeling on the floor by tilting the torso, arms and hands forward, almost touching the ground with their hands, or back in the same way.

Movements and Steps

Moles
They are round and rolling movements.
The Sun
Movements are well marked, as hip beat, Egyptian, and pressing the belly shimmy

Types of Movements

Round:
Can be ''boy'': hiding hip turn and release the belly, staying in the same place. ''Grande'': Rotating the hip with a trunk like a large bobbing.

Eight-Infinity:
Is drawn to the hip as an eight or infinity symbol. Sometimes to the front, back, up, down, or one side of the hip. For the front: Turn a hip place to another (for a navel and the other side) facing the front. Back: Turn a hip place to another, always backwards. Up: It rises up to the hip, down to one side, then climbs up again and falls to the other side. Form an infinite. (Horizontal) to bottom: Raising the hip up and one side, bending down and raising the other side, forming a vertical eight (8). With one side of the hip: With one leg in half, compared to the other, rises and low hip.

Camel
For a leg out in front of the other or both together and slightly bent. Releasing hip, tilted toward the front, raising the back then for the front. Draw an eight with the body. To or invested in one leg ahead of the other or both together and slightly bent. Loose hips and lean forward, it falls back toward the hip with discolored abdomen shrunk, we must raise the back, then left back for the ribs and the hips rise to the front again (drawn as an S).

Wave:
Take first the upper abdomen by pushing down on a continuing basis without moving the trunk, then from the bottom up, too. (Abdominal movement).

Shimy:
Effect of stomach through a rapid belly, producing a wave. Hip at the side with your legs together a show of going to a good time quickly, swinging the hips. Over time you can make all the movements and even begin to alternate as they do the shimy. Hip to be fit and front hip get loose quickly. Yet the body is flexed knees, quickly producing a tremor throughout the body with emphasis on the belly.
Beats: It pushes the hips to the side or up and down.

Egyptian:
It is a basic step. In upright position, place one leg in front of the other. The front half is always in tip high. Then go up the side of the hip of the leg is in front, down and up. May be slow or fast, depends on the variations to accompany the rhythms, like going up and down the hip, without hitting or striking, and so on.
Egyptian Walking: It dislocates to the side with both legs crossed and half a point. It turns the hip to the inside of the front leg in the back is pulled to the side.

New:
Walking to the front or rear, the front leg raises the hip, step with knees bent, resulting in a majestic walk.

Fingers:
It is possible to do several drawings on the fingers, the letter "e" lowercase letter''z'', the letters''m''and''No'', or eight vertical or horizontal, a circle, and point s''.''

Snake:
It is a movement that is done with the head, moving to one side and for another, or producing a circle.