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    Quintessential Bellydance: Beginner Class Companion
    Quintessential Bellydance: Beginner Class Companion
    Quintessential Bellydance: Beginner Class Companion
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    Quintessential Bellydance: Beginner Class Companion

    By Evyenia Karmi

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    If youre looking for a fun, effective, low-impact workout that will build stamina, enhance flexibility, and improve your cardiovascular well-being, look no more. This gentle and effective dance is not only exciting to learn; its also a great workout. Bellydance strengthens your core muscles gracefully, giving you new confidence in your bodys natural sway and movement. These popular dance steps have been embraced by women of all ages everywhere.

    Here, Evyenia Karmi, an experienced dancer, teacher, and member of the International Dance Council, introduces students to the basic terminology and movements of bellydance. Through careful, easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, you can quickly begin learning the vocabulary of this ancient and beautiful dance.

    Once you master the basic steps, the addition of sultry veil work can add a whole new dimension and excitement to your experience and performance. This compact and easy-to-use guide is an excellent teaching tool, featuring a gentle warm-up routine, to prepare your body for this energetic workout experience.

    Create your own choreography or just have fun dancing! Youll learn basic arm movements, technique for both the upper and lower body, directional and travelling steps, the basics of veil workand much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 3, 2013
    ISBN9781475947892
    Quintessential Bellydance: Beginner Class Companion
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    Evyenia Karmi

    Evyenia Karmi started dancing as a small child learning the traditional dance of her family. She has appeared in film and television; training includes the community adult ballet program at the National Ballet School of Canada, and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Evyenia performs internationally as a member of CID-Unesco in Greece. She lives and teaches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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      Quintessential Bellydance - Evyenia Karmi

      Copyright © 2013 Evyenia Karmi

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4787-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4788-5 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4789-2 (ebk)

      iUniverse rev. date: 08/09/2013

      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Introduction

      Warm-Up

      Orientation

      Quick Review

      Basic Arm Movements

      Upper Body

      Lower Body

      Directional Steps

      Travelling Steps

      Introduction To Veil

      Cool-Down

      Sessions

      Combinations

      Glossary

      Resources

      About The Author

      Acknowledgments

      Afterword

      This book is for my beloved parents, Basile and Olymbia,

      and my supportive brother, Demetrios.

      Thank you for allowing me freedom of expression

      to be the artist I am today.

      I age learning something new every day.

      —Solon, Greek statesman circa 600 BC

      Foreword

      Tasso Lakas

      TV Variety Producer-Writer

      The first time I experienced a live bellydance performance was in a Greek nightclub in Greenwich Village in New York City. At the time, I was a teenager from a small factory city in Canada and very much involved in the arts, including dance, so this was a very eye-opening experience. A few decades later, two things stand out in my memory: the energy and excitement that consumed all the club patrons when the bellydancer energetically glided onto the club floor through a myriad of tables, and the overwhelming beauty of the dance and the dancer.

      I was completely mesmerized with the finger cymbals keeping to the beat of the music, the allure of the body dressed in layers of colourful silk, the smiling and seductive face, and the controlled movements of the bellydancer’s body. I could only imagine what it would be like to know who this mysterious woman was with all her feminine charms. Bellydancers are seductive and mysterious creatures who fascinate Westerners with this Eastern Mediterranean dance.

      But that was then and this is now. Bellydancers gracefully express their femininity in dance and movement and strike up the feeling of a never-ending awe among a much broader audience now that consists of men, women, and children. They are no longer limited to clubs. Bellydance shows are now much more common in theatres, restaurants, and family gatherings. Even so, we are all still mesmerized by the rhythms, contortions, and excitement of these performers draped in veils. They are as mysterious

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