The “easy” Turkish drop is not exactly easy, and not a beginner move, but it is a relatively accessible way for dancers of varying abilities to make a dramatic back-bending descent to the floor....
The exercises in this program are designed to build strength, improve range of motion, reinforce clean technique, and pamper the hands and wrists. Use this program: As a stand-alone conditioning program to level up;...
Learn and practice, step-by-step, a detailed breakdown of the placement for soft, relaxed hands. This segment also touches on idiomatic Egyptian hand placement, and concludes with specific instructions on avoiding hand placement that may...
In this segment, we examine a foundation movement where the wrist stays in one spot, and the hand sweeps around from that base. Although this movement, on its own, is infrequently used, it is...
In a sweeping wrist articulation, a dancer layers together either flexion or extension of the wrist with movement of the wrist through space. We need the wrist sweep to build the more sophisticated circles...
For this soft and sophisticated hand circle, we layer together the isolated outside hand circle taught in section 3 with the sweeping wrist articulation taught in section 4. Back to Part 3: Sweeping Wrist...
To circle to the inside, we use the sweeping wrist articulation taught in section 3, layered with an inside-circling sequence for the hand. In this video, we’ll: break down and practice the four steps...
The hand undulation—a defining characteristic of Oriental dance— is created by sequencing together the wrist sweeps we examined previously in this series with a sweep of the knuckles. We’ll look at refining and coordinating...
In this final video, we’re looking at an isolated circle of the wrist: both fingertips and elbows are anchored, and the wrist circles the fixed points of the fingertips and elbows. We have 8...
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