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EntertainmentHow to Belly Dance

How to Do the Veil Lift into a Butterfly Move

Transcript

We’re going to bring the hands together and then shoot them out. So, together and out.

As you’re bringing them together we’re actually going to lift the veil up and over. So, lift up and over.

So, the hands are kind of doing a circle, and down, going in, in the bigger circle, lift and the bigger circle.

Once we’re here, we’re going to drop the right hand, bring the veil forward.

So, Now my left shoulder is draped with the veil, my body is in front.

And now very quickly we’re going to bring the right veil back, and left veil forward. Bring left back, right forward.

This is where it gets a little tricky. You’re going to try to do both moves at the same time.

So, the hands are drawing down and up circles, going down, down and up, down and up, down and up, down and up.

A flick of the wrist is really what initiates the veil coming off the shoulder so let’s try that, from the lift.

So, the veil is in front of us. So, first move is the lift. Then one single drop and butterfly.

The butterfly looks nicer if you also add a little bit of weight shifting.

In the beginning it might be tricky to figure out a way to stop the veil from coming over your face. And it’s just about a really good chest lift and keeping the belly tucked, and a lot of practice.

Let’s try that with music.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Do the Veil Lift into a Butterfly Move

How to Do the Envelope & Butterfly Move with a Veil

How to Balance Something on Your Head

How to Belly Dance with a Veil

How to Play the Gallop & Doubles on Finger Cymbals

How to Do the Envelope with a Veil

How to Play the Gallop on Finger Cymbals

How to Do Level Changes

How to Play Doubles on Finger Cymbals

How to Do Stationary Hip Circles

How to Combine Egyptian Basic & Hip Double Hip Lock

How to Do Egyptian Basic & Hip Lock & Hip Drop

How to Combine Hip Drop & Kick with Traveling Hip Circles

How to Combine Shoulder Circles w/ Chest Circles, Lifts, Drops

How to Combine Mayas, Belly Pops & Reverse Undulation

Combine Shoulder Circle Combo w/ Big Hip Circle into Maya

How to Combine the Maya Combo with the 3-Point Turn Combo

How to Do Shoulder Shimmy & Hip Slide Moves

How to Combine Vertical Hip Circles with Hand Undulations

How to Do a Veil Switch

How to Combine Snake Arms with Piston Hips

How to Combine Traveling Hip Lift Combo w/ Vertical Hip Lift

How to Combine Hip Slides & Horizontal Figure 8s with Twist

How to Combine Snake Arm Walk into Hip Slides & Hip Lifts

How to Do a Veil Switch & Sway

How to Do Hip Shimmy & Hip Slide Moves

How to Sway with a Veil

How to Combine Snake Arm Combo with Hip Slide with a Twist

How to Combine Double Hip Locks with Undulations

How to Do Shoulder Shimmy & Chest Lift Moves

How to Add the Hip Shimmy to Chest Slides & Lifts

How to Do a Figure 8 with a Twist

How to Combine Shoulder Circle Series w/ Big Hip Circle

How to Combine Vertical Hip Circles with Hip Drop Combo

How to Do the Egyptian Basic & Shimmy Moves

How to Combine Big Hip Circles into Head Slides

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