Ultimate Belly Dancing Guide

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By Jenn Knows

Belly Dancing Guide

Belly Dancing is fun first of all. You can also lose weight with belly dancing while enjoying this great form of Art.

Also; Did you know that Belly Dancing is the World's oldest dance?

The whole purpose of this "Ultimate Belly Dancing Guide" is to explain belly dancing and offer resources for beginners who are interested in belly dancing and share some advanced resources for non-beginners. I hope the information I offer will help you in some way.

I will be updating this ultimate guide regularly, so please leave your comments, and let me know if you want me to add any specific information.

Belly Dance History

There are many different versions of stories about when and where belly dancing started. Belly Dancing History might be interesting topic, therefore I have created a list of great resources for belly dance history:

Learn to Belly Dance
Learn to Belly Dance

How to Belly Dance

It used to be hard to find an instructor to learn belly dancing from. But nowadays, even in very small towns you might find a belly dance instructor, or a gym that offers belly dancing classes. Definitely, your best option to learn belly dancing is from a knowledable belly dance instructor.

A teacher can work with you and make sure you are executing a move correctly. If you are doing something wrong, you can ask your teacher to show the right form to you. It is always nice to have someone in front of you demonstrating the movement. But let's face it, this is not always feasible. If you don't have a chance to learn belly dancing from an instructor, you might want to check out these options:

How To Do Bellydance Hip Raise

How to Belly Dance Videos

There are few belly dance instructional videos from YouTube at the right column. YouTube.com has a very large selection of instructional videos. These are some nice sites with belly dance instructional videos:

More Free Belly Dancing Video Samples From YouTube:

Cassiopeia's Choreography

Learn Egyptian Belly Dance

Asena Performance - Famous Turkish Belly Dancer

Didem Dance Show - Turkish Belly Dance Star

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vreccc 4 years ago

WOW!!!!!!!

Those videos are great!!! Do we get to see a video of you belly dancing, or were you in one of those????

Oh yeah!!! this is a nice hub

Jonathan

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embitca Level 1 Commenter 4 years ago

Great first hub, Jenn! Welcome to Hubpages :)

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Jenn Knows Hub Author 4 years ago

I don't have any videos yet.

When I become a pro, I'll post my videos also :)

Thanks for the comment embitca

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funride 4 years ago

Great first hub! Welcome to hubpages Jenn :)

Jenn really Knows what people like to see! I love belly dance :D

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hiqutipie 4 years ago

I'm Not much of a belly dancer but nice start Jenn....

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Princessa Level 3 Commenter 4 years ago

Welcome to the club, very good hub!

I actually practice belly dancing, I love it, I try to do it at least twice a week. I find it better than any other form of excercise (apart from Pilates). As an added bonus you ca pick some of the steps for when you are clubbing!!!

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tinyteddy 4 years ago

fantastic

i have always been abelly dancing fan

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Sports Obsessed 4 years ago

Awesome Hub..

Thanks for the help earlier on the forums as well. (Jewelery Blogger)

-Scott :)

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amy jane Level 1 Commenter 4 years ago

Great hub jen! it looks like so much fun!

Welcome to hubpages :)

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SweetiePie Level 6 Commenter 4 years ago

Good hub and very interesting. Makes me want to learn how to belly dance, but I am not very good at dancing, so I enjoy to watch others do it.

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suok3 4 years ago

Hi Jenn, love your hub-belly dancing. On the odd occassion in the nightclub I have tried this, often getting a positive response, not sure if it is the dancing they're admiring.

What decided you to venture into belly dancing?

suok3

Hire A Belly Dancer 3 years ago

These videos are brilliant!

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danieltetreault 3 years ago

Blellydancing....I LOVE it! I was contracting my Glutes by the end of the first video!

Daniel

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Marisa Wright Level 5 Commenter 3 years ago

Great Hub, sorry I hadn't come across it before. Tip - you probably know by now that rather than continually adding to this Hub, it's much better to start a new Hub and link the two together. Happy Hubbing!

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KIPL 2 years ago

Awesome Hub!

Learn Master Ballroom Dance 2 years ago

Great hub and video sharing, thank you!

Salsa Dancing 2 years ago

Belly dancing is amazing, and some of the videos you've posted up looks really good. I guess shakira brought belly dancing the media attention it needed [in the west] and the rest is history.

Learn Ballroom 2 years ago

Love your hub. Those videos are amazing and beautiful.

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the clean life Level 6 Commenter 23 months ago

Great Hub Jenn,

Need a lot of energy to do that. Great videos! Thanks for sharing.

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pisethz 16 months ago

Awesome! I wonder if the talent is trained or naturally born?

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thehemu 13 months ago

thanks for those video tuts they are pretty helpful

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Marisa Wright Level 5 Commenter 2 months ago

I have a couple of belly dancing websites where you might like to contribute DVD reviews or articles. Affiliate advertising is allowed. PM me if you're interested.

Sayyida 5 weeks ago

This is awesome. It's perfect compliment to my bellydance resource guide. I include tips. If you have time, perhaps you would be willing to leave a comment with a tip?

Thanks!

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