Shimmy

Cairo to Istanbul (1x2)

Air date: Oct 08, 2007

Beginning with a gentle but thorough warm up to prepare the body to dance, the teaching sequence introduces four core belly dance moves: the exotic 'head slide', the 'basic Egyptian step','hip circles' and the 'Turkish figure-eight'. In the final act, viewers combine what they have just learned into an authentic belly dance choreography which concludes with a freestyle belly dance.