Pre-Registration based class...After 4-8 weeks in the INTRO class, The Fundamentals teaches you a wider vocabulary of basic belly dance "Orientale" movements (such as hip figure-eights, snake arms & body undulations) as well as traveling steps & turns common to Egyptian cabaret-style dance and where in the music these steps are best used. We work on basic technique with full break-downs & step-combinations that can improve your posture, flexibility, balance, grace and muscle isolation & control. Each week we put these new moves into combinations and string them together in a dance routine, you finish a "dedicated" session with a full choreographed dance & a strong sense of body awareness.
This class is beginner but NOT easy; you will always come away with something new from week-to-week, session-to-session, year-to-year. See Class Attire here -- sorry, but no skirts, as the instructress needs to see knee & lower back positions. Drop-ins are encouraged only during a buffet session or during the first week of a dedicated session as the class learns on a curve. No prior dance experience is necessary for this class however you must complete INTRO to Belly Dance first. All 4 'Fundamentals' weekly offerings of this class have the same choreographic content, therefore interchangeable from week-to-week.