Belly Dance Moves: Single-Hip Vertical Figure 8s

Learn how to do the belly dance move known as a single-hip vertical figure 8 with this belly dancing lesson. Expert: Irina Akulenko

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Now let's try doing the figure 8 only on one hip, switching your position coming back to standing on the left leg, keeping you left knee bent, brining the right foot forward heel up. We're going to lift the chest up, extend the arms, lift the right hip up, drop it forward, bring it back down and come back to neutral position where you normally are standing. Then you're going to proceed to lift it up, bring it back, drop it down and again come back to neutral. Up, forward, down, neutral, up, back, down, neutral. So we are drawing a figure 8 going up to down, and again this is happening in this dimension, parallel to your body if you are facing the one side. Let's try that with music and faster. And that's how you do one sided hip figure 8.

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  • Irina Akulenko

    Irina Akulenko is a New York City-based performer, teacher and choreographer with a burning passion for arts of all genres. Although she discovered Middle Eastern dance purely by chance, her interest in expression started at an early age and was channeled into ballet training, in addition to piano and voice lessons as well as visual arts. Today Irina travels extensively teaching and performing Middle Eastern dance throughout the United States and abroad.