10 BELLY DANCE MOVES you probably don't know, but should! Belly Dance Basics

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

✨ Did you already know any of these moves? Let me know in the comments! ✨

[@kanaanmrad7879]

Not much, but thanks to you, we will know all the movements. 🤗🌹😍💐

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Enjoy learning them Kanaan! Glad you found thsi one helpful.

[@kanaanmrad7879]

@@BellyDancerDiaries certainly it is useful, thank you so much and keep going please! 😊💃👍

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

@@kanaanmrad7879 Let me know if you have any requests for technique you want to learn!

[@kanaanmrad7879]

@@BellyDancerDiaries thanks for your kindness, I want to tell you something, there are many who want to be like you, but unfortunately no one can reach your top. 😉🌹😍😘

[@artemisantonie9099]

This is the ONLY bellydance channel that I REALLY love, because you aren't teaching only the basics in bellydance And as an advanced bellydancer I learned many details from you ❤❤❤💗💗💗💗

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much for your lovely feedback Artemis. It makes me really happy that you can extend your dancing through these videos. I've got a few more advanced ones coming too.

[@sharonhainesNumber1Red]

I love the kiss one because I al using a song with the words “Kiss, Kiss”, to teach my students. The song is Simarik.

[@angryspinachfan4514]

Love the way she smiles to the camera.... I Just can't stop playing this video again and again

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

❤ I hope to bring you some joy through dance ❤

[@angryspinachfan4514]

@@BellyDancerDiaries thanks for everything you did for us

[@gatitarravalera]

Thank you so much 😻😻😻 very good video ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for share 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@firekisscj]

I love belly dance and you are one of the reasons why. Keep up the good work 🌹

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Awh, that is very sweet. Happy dancing!

[@enajty4412]

you are an excellent teacher. simple and so clear. you make the steps easiest to learn. ived learn a lot from you. im janne from the Philippines

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thank you so much for your beautiful message Janne. So lovely to dance with you all the way from the Philippines!

[@alisonrogerson3143]

So happy to have found this channel! It’s exciting to see new moves. Thank you from Scotland 🙏🏻💫

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Yay! Great to have you here Alison! Lovely to connect with you all the way from Scotland!

[@FeziykaPIlic]

I have been using these moves and variations, but thank you for reminding me. You are an inspiration, Elisa.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Lovely Feziyka ❤ Happy dancing to you! Do you have a favourite move?

[@veronagrey6313]

LOVE THIS LOVE YOU THANK YOU AGAIN !!!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

So glad you are enjoying this one Verona. Thanks so much for your lovely comments and support ❤️

[@Godisfirst21]

You are a happy and sweet Goddess and I can't wait to try these. Thank you. I love all 10 of them.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Yay! So glad you enjoyed these Sherri. Let me know which is your favourite 😁

[@afreensiddiqui4401]

Your content n way of teaching especially the last part with music, makes everything clear that compells me to like n subscribe👍🏻👍🏻😍😍😍

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

I'm so glad you liked this one Afreen, and also the top 20 video. Thank you for dancing with me and subscribing! Please share with your belly dancing friends!

[@ataidebora]

I'm madly in love with your dance. Greetings from Brazil!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much for your comment! Lovely to connect with you all the way from Brazil!

[@sausanacademy]

LOVE your dance studio! Thank you for the video.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much! My new favourite spot to film 😁 I hope you enjoyed learning these moves.

[@siyasolanki8168]

omg this helped me learn so many new steps tysmm

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Fantastic Siya! I am so glad you liked this one. All the best for your choreography creation 😁

[@joanneratchford3894]

These are just fabulous.! I love your style 😃

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much JoAnne. So happy you like these moves ❤ Did you have a favourite?

[@cynthiasuarezroyoa.k.a.nan6604]

Great! Well demonstrated!❤️🐪 Thank you!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

So glad you enjoyed this one. Which was your favourite move??

[@bellyjewel]

Nice moves. I did already know some of these. I love heel drops! Such a simple thing, but they can add just the right accent at just the right moment.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Totally agree with the heel drops! Simple but effective. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for commenting!

[@MariaM-fu6wm]

I love the moves and I love the way they are explained, thank you!!!!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks for your lovely comment Maria! So happy you like these moves and the explanations. Enjoy them!

[@MariaM-fu6wm]

@@BellyDancerDiaries I am sharing your video with my sister and belly dance teacher too. We are taking now zoom classes, I think they will love what you teach.... it it's very inspiring what you posted! Thank you so much! (I'm recommending your channel too, wow!) Thanks you for sharing your talent! Stay safe!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

@@MariaM-fu6wm Thank you so much for sharing Maria! Will be wonderful for you all to dance together ❤

[@zillanahbellydance4043]

I love these! This video made me so grateful for my mentor she has taught me all of these she is always creating new combinations and choreos! I love seeing a new person teach them though you teach them totally different and I almost like yours more ill have to play

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Oh how fantastic! You are very fortunate to have such a wonderful mentor who teaches you all the different aspects of dance, and is inspired and passionate about her own dancing and teaching. It is beautiful that they can instill this in you too!

[@zana1969]

These are all very nice moves. Oh that chest drop...love it, but still so hard

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

They really are a core workout, aren't they! Another way to think about it is standing up as tall as you can, then going back to your usual belly dance posture. Try it in the mirror too as someone it really helps. It is a really fun move, so a great one to perfect! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioSxo6qQlMyZb9E

[@blackcatrose4257]

Learning this is also a good workout lol.

[@alaskancourtney6500]

Loved this! Since I dance with you regularly, I DO know a couple of these! ❤️

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hehe, yes, I admit some of these are my favourite moves! Enjoy Courtney 😁 Lovely to dance with you, as always.

[@zeynepgedik4414]

Thank you soo much for the wonderfull moves you teach us. I knew' shimmy butta.' Very sweet move!! Adding a shimmy I find difficult. But practice makes perfect ! ❤❤

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

It's one of those moves that you just have to get into the muscle memory. If you think about it too much, you'll lose it! Would love to hear how your progress!

[@whitesharks4594]

Very important teaching subject! thank you.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Glad you found this one useful. Enjoy the moves!

[@ESR527]

You’re so talented, how can you do the same move in both sides perfectly? I can’t do it 😅

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Don't worry, nearly always one side will feel easier than the other. I recommend working on your preferred side when you first learn the move, then building up your non-preferred side once you understand how to do it. With practise it will feel much more natural. Hope that helps!

[@racheljagmhan3644]

Hi. I have seen some of d moves already.. I love move no 5

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Ooh, I love that one too! So much fun.

[@Bornahorse]

The dislikes are from people who were shimmying too hard and missed the thumbs up! Thanks for showing these moves, I'll use one or two for a dance I'm working on!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

🤣🤣🤣 Thank you! All the best with your dance. Would love to see it if you ever get a video of you performing it!

[@yvonnesaidi1313]

Just beautiful. Thanks so much ♥️

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

So glad you like these ones Yvonne. Which move did you like best?

[@yvonnesaidi1313]

@@BellyDancerDiaries honestly hard to say which was best just liked how free flowing they looked...

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

@@yvonnesaidi1313 Beautiful! Yes, I love flowing moves too. Would love to see you playing with these with your favourite music 😁

[@JosephineOkujeni]

This is truly divine. This is the power of the divine feminine

[@brendahartstern4565]

I did this one by instinct before I knew it was a thing. Also cool with heel drops when you're too tired to chest lift, haha!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hehe, yes the heel drops is the ultimate impacting but easy move. Sometimes we need to conserve our energy!

[@savindadissanayake5955]

superb.

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thank you Savinda!

[@supreetoberoi6837]

Soooo underated professional

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much for your encouragement and support!

[@helenleong8369]

Really nice video 😊😊 Is the heel drop same like bounce ?

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hi Helen, yes, it is like a bounce. The knees stay relaxed. And for this one, the accent is on the down as the heels hit the floor. 😁

[@cynthiasuarezroyoa.k.a.nan6604]

Great!

[@mother0ftheforest]

Dear Elisa, nice video and good explanations! I like how some moves are called differently across countries and dance schools. Like you, I love move number 9. We call it 'bicycle hip'. But then, we are from The Netherlands, so, haha :)

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Bicycle hip - I love it! Hehe, I can really see the image for that now. Practising belly dancing while riding on a bike 🤣

[@mother0ftheforest]

@@BellyDancerDiaries Exactly 😂

[@rosasumilepalermogofredo8333]

Love ittttttttttttttt 😁😍

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much Rosa. Glad you enjoyed this tutorial! Which move was your favourite?

[@normalola9523]

I loved it!!!I do it from france!!But where do you teach?in which country?

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Merci Norma! J'adore ton pays. Je suis à Melbourne, en Australie. De quelle ville en France? J'étais étudiante d'échange au lycée de Lavaur 😁 Une ville très petite mais très belle.

[@normalola9523]

@@BellyDancerDiaries je suis à paris ma belle !!!! I would love to visite autralia

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

@@normalola9523 I love Paris too. Hopefully you can travel here one day! You would love the wildlife and beaches here 😁

[@Bornahorse]

Do you go over these moves more in-depth in another video? Specifically the 2nd one, the Up-in-Eight?

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hello! Yes, here is a tutorial dedicated to that move. It is a little old so the recording may not be very good, but hopefully you can still learn from all the tips! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3uyqqqImdStjrs I really love this move. I hope you will too. 😁

[@margaritasantolis7266]

Very nice and useful but with the skirt it's was kind of difficult to spot exactly the movement of legs and knees

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks for the feedback! Hope you still enjoyed the moves. Let me know if there are any in particular that you are confused about.

[@irmar]

I didn't think that at all, because she lifted the skirt when teaching them, so it was crystal-clear.

[@e.obrien8421]

The only step I wasn’t familiar with was the Head down with a head side to side (Shimmy). 🥰

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hello! Yes, the head is dropped all the way down if you can. This one also depends on flexibility in the spine and hamstrings. The aim is to have the body and head all the way down.

[@selene9780]

Really difficult to decide but I think my favorite one was the dramatic shimmy with the chest drops! 😍 Both moves separately work quite well but doing chest drops while doing shimmy doesn’t. Any tipps to improve this? 😞😊

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Hi Selene, ooh, I love this one too! So dramatic. Try it with a fast drum solo, sometimes the move just comes when it is with the music. Also you can try practising each move individually while multi-tasking. For example, if you can shimmy or chest drop while cooking, or doing something else, it means you can do the move without thinking while you think of the other thing you are doing. You'll then be able to it bring together with another layer. Have you mastered layered shimmies yet? If not, it's great to work on the shimmy first and be able to do that without thinking first. Hope that makes sense!

[@selene9780]

@@BellyDancerDiaries Thank you, these are some good tips! For example, doing shimmy while doing the dishes .. :-) When it comes to layering shimmy it depends on what shimmy .. vibration does work ( but is not the powerful ..). 😊

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Great work Selene! It takes time, so be patient and it will come. One day it will suddenly click, and then you will have it for life.

[@selene9780]

@@BellyDancerDiaries Yes, I hope so! 😍

[@LayaliBellydance]

Not sure who the intended audience is here (apparently not us) but we see all of these allllll the time at our dance school.... :)

[@LayaliBellydance]

But great concept!

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

That's awesome that you learn all these Layali! You must have a great teacher. Which is your favourite? Do you have any new moves you have learnt recently too?

[@emmaak8098]

❤️❤️❤️

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks Emma! So glad you enjoyed this one. ❤

[@nadiadinu5465]

Hello,my beautifull!It's 6 o'clock AM in my country(yes,I'm a matinal person😁) and I'm doing that shimmy butta

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Good morning! What a way to start the day! How good does it feel to dance first thing? I find it sets me up and wakes me up, starting the day with movement and joy 😁

[@nadinenadou8855]

Me:mom what are u doing Come in it's so cold outside 😅😅

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

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[@jazmeenkiddo]

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[@BADRUBULDURA]

💝💝💝💝💝

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

So glad you loved this tutorial Lola. Which move was your favourite? Did you know any of them previously?

[@supreetoberoi6837]

U r deadly sweet

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

Thanks so much!

[@navelfan]

Another fantastic lesson Elisa! My favorite part was the end where you put them all together, like a mini-performance! You are some belly dancer Elisa! :)

[@BellyDancerDiaries]

So glad you enjoyed it Don! Hehe, yes, I love dancing with these moves 😁