![]() What is it? These are the reverse of the hip lift, and involve one hip lifting slightly then dropping below its normal level – or just dropping. Now, raise your right hip sharply – do this mostly using your side abdominal muscles rather than the muscles of your right leg (although your right heel will rise off the floor). Keep your left foot planted and shift all your weight onto it. How do you do it? Let’s say you want to do a hip lift on the right. What is it? These are typical of the Turkish belly dance style. ![]() Variations: You can play around with the size of the piston, and sharp versus smooth movements, or you can try to go out smoothly and make the return to the centre sharp. You can do this sharply (think of closing a car door) or smoothly (sliding a drawer closed) Imagine that you need to push a door closed when your hands are full and you can only use your hips. Now bend one knee and straighten the other, letting your hip pop to one side (yes, just like when you start with the basic shimmy). How do you do it? Feet grounded and knees loose, as usual. A hip piston drives one hip out sharply to one side. What is it? Also known as hip pops or hip bumps. Your pelvis makes a circle on the horizontal plane (as if you were drawing a circle on the ground). What is it? Also known as hip rolls, this is one of the first moves to master. This article just looks at the hip moves (remember Shakira’s awesome hip moves?) – which are the most important ones to master in belly dance, but not the only ones. Here, I’ve put together a list of some of the more common names (in English!) used to describe the different key moves of belly dance – along with a few tips and pointers that may help you learn how to do them (although it’s great to know what they look like as well). It’s also great if you’re dancing in a group extempore, as you can call out moves to each other and you all know what you mean. Knowing these names can help a lot if you’re trying to learn belly dance online or through books, and it can also help if you’re trying to plan some choreography. All the characteristic dance steps have been given names. After all, if you’d never played football before, you might be puzzled about what dribbling meant, and when you start playing cricket, you need to know what they mean by googlies, fine legs and inswingers. When you begin any new exercise, it’s good to know what some of the basic terms mean.
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