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How to Use a Ritual to Anchor Your Dance Practice
How do you make time for your personal dance practice? Do you have a daily or weekly creative routine that enables you to practice regularly? One of the most powerful ways to build a practice is through ritual: a “ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order” (Oxford English Dictionary). …
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How to Give Feedback in Dance
Instruction in dance and sport often consists of a teacher imparting correct technique to achieve an end result. There’s a much broader spectrum of feedback techniques beyond this out there. I’d like to explore a few of them in this blog. I hope you can apply this in your own practice giving and receiving feedback as a dance teacher or learner. Continue reading
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Belly Dance Teacher Training: Review of the ‘Safe Delivery of Belly Dance Classes’ Course
Have you ever thought about belly dance teacher training? In this review, I share my experience of the ‘Safe Delivery of Belly Dance Classes course which helped me take my first steps towards teaching belly dance. I hope that by sharing my experience, it might inspire you to consider your first steps into dance teaching! Continue reading
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Understanding Rhythms in Belly Dance Music
In this post, you will learn seven iqaat (rhythmic modes) commonly found in Middle Eastern belly dance music: maqsoum, saiidi, masmoudi saghir (baladi), fellahi, masmoudi kabir, malfuf, and chiftetelli. This should help you recognise the rhythms as dance to belly dance music. Continue reading
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Video: Jen’s Performance to Lela (‘Tonight’)
I wanted to share one of my favourite recent-ish performances. Who doesn’t love Hakim and the one and only godfather of soul, James Brown? Continue reading
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My Belly Dance Journey So Far: From Student to Teacher
How does one go from being a complete beginner to belly dance to being a full-blown belly dance enthusiast and teacher? Here’s my story. Continue reading