This was the most helpful thing I found of all the things I’ve read and studied on Belly Dance. If you want to practice improvising learn 5 variations for each of these 7 core movements ranging from your shoulders to your hips and you’ll have a wealth of steps and isolations to choose from!

The seven core Families of Movement that create Belly Dance:

1.Lifts and Drops

2.Slides

3.Shimmy

4.Twists

5.Circles

6.Figure 8’s

7.Undulations