THE ABC’S OF FUSION BELLY DANCE
WHAT ARE “ABC’S OF FUSION BELLY DANCE?”
After 17 years of teaching private lessons helped Elizabeth build a format that helps all people, as well as professional dancers, learn to breathe, walk, move and dance with more ease, grace, and reduced risk of injury. The format is user friendly, well organized, and geared for maximum learning on your own. The format draws its influence from the Suhaila Salimpour Belly Dance format, yoga, Pilates, ballet, flamenco, East Indian dance, and martial arts, making it a true fusion belly dance format.
THE ALPHABET
“ABC’s of Belly Dance,” organizes fusions belly dance movements into tiny micro movements to help students learn the dance more easily. Learning the belly dance “alphabet” enhances the range of dance movements you can do. Because the alphabet includes other dance techniques, a whole world movement possibilities becomes available to you. Soon you can make your own dance “words,” “sentences,” “paragraphs” and “stories”
DOTS AS A LEARNING TOOL
To facilitate the Alphabet learning process, dots are applied to different parts of your body as visual tools so you can master difficult moves at home. This technique is especially helpful for learning movements that you find particularly challenging. The dots are visual relational points to help you learn to stabilize one area, while activating another, a key aspect to clean, clear movements.
DYNAMIC SPIRAL
Dynamic spiral concept is found in Martha Graham modern dance technique. Placing your head, chest and hips in different planes creates visual interest, emotional intensity and dynamic flow to the dance. Learning this technique enhances emotional expression in dance movement, veil work and, and stationary poses.
BUILDING A DANCE
Alphabet –“Micro movements” (or letters) the foundation for movement mastery
Words – Two “Letters” combined to create a more complex movement. (Example: A “figure 8”)
Sentences – Movements within 8 counts of the music.
Paragraphs – Series of “Sentences.” Movements within 32 musical counts.
Your dance- your story
