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List of Basic Movements (more advanced movements and combinations are taught in upper level classes):
Basic Posture: chest lifted 75 %, hips tucked (remember muscles used in floor warm up), knees bent feet close together and parallel to each other, arms in place with space between them and body, energy all the way out to finger tips, head upright, neck lengthened
1. Hip Snaps; Walking Hip Snaps
2. Hip Down
3. Hip Drop/Sit
4. Hip Shimmy; Vertical and Horizontal
5. Hip Twists Up
6. Hip Twists Up In a Circle/Pivot Bump
7. Sits In a Circle
8. Egyptian Basic
9. Walking Egyptian Basic Forward
10. Walking Egyptian Basic Backward
11. Flat Turkish Hip Circle
12. Ami’
13. Chest Slide
14. *Smoothed Out = Ribcage Circle
(15)*Chest Lift
(16)*Chest Slide (To One Side) (or Tilt)
(17)*Chest Drop (Don't Go Far From Neutral or Will Look Like Slouching) *Chest Slide (To Other Side) (or Tilt)
18. Torso Rotation
19. Torso Figure Eight
20. Shoulder Shimmy
21. Snake Arms
22. Arm Ripple
23. Head Slide and Head Circle
24. Hip Slide
25. Reach and Sit
26. Choo Choo
27. Single Choo Choo
28. Double Choo Choo
29. “L” Arms Double Hip Bump
30. Ghawazee (Down, Down, Up, Up w/Hip Swing)
31. Loop-de-Loop Hip Circle
32. Tunisian
33. Box Shimmy
34. Body Wave, Stationary and Walking
35. Basic Arabic
36. Grapevine (also Combo with Arabic Twist and Hip Snaps/Shoulder Shimmy)
37. kashlima
38. Rocking Feet Forward and Back w/Hip Swing
39. Taxim and Reverse Taxim
40. Belly Roll
41. Belly Flutter
42. Egyptian Half Turn
43. Arabic Figure Eight (Sit on Bar Stool)
44. Flat Horizontal Figure Eight
48. Vertical Figure Eight
49. Spins, Paddle and Switching Weight Between Feet
50. Pyramid Basic and With Turn
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