GypsyStacey
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~sigh~ :shok: anyone else have trouble with them or is it just me? mind you trying to get it from a DVD not the best so i'm looking forward to when my teacher does them in class. is my body even made to move like that?
i swear to god i look like a beached whale trying to do them...lol
I feel like a dancing mango. I still have a pear-shaped figure, even after losing weight, so even after 3 1/2 years of classes, I feel like I look horrible doing undulations. The top part of me is so small. Not just my chest, my shoulders, too. I'm very narrow up top, so I have it in my mind that I need to "overcompensate' to get an undulation going, when smaller moves would probably in truth look better My moves feel all wobbly instead of wavy, so I get this "dancing mango" sensation. I've videoed myself doing undulations---it's not pretty.
I feel like a dancing mango. I still have a pear-shaped figure, even after losing weight, so even after 3 1/2 years of classes, I feel like I look horrible doing undulations. The top part of me is so small. Not just my chest, my shoulders, too. I'm very narrow up top, so I have it in my mind that I need to "overcompensate' to get an undulation going, when smaller moves would probably in truth look better My moves feel all wobbly instead of wavy, so I get this "dancing mango" sensation. I've videoed myself doing undulations---it's not pretty.
The way my teacher teaches undulations is like this- and she refers to them as Egyptian undulations, meaning no lower body movement. To me this is a more of a chest circle, rather than an undulation as I know it.
Okay- Starting from neutral position- Chest OUT, Chest UP, Chest Back and Down...like a ferris wheel that is in reverse. Pelvic regions stays relatively still.
What do you think? I find it hard to do frankly. My pelvis wants to rock on out with the chest.
Okay my mind can’t even grasp that…lol.
I'm going to add this to my list of misnamed moves along with the "taqsim" Why? Because Egyptian undulations are pelvic only. The whole chest circle thing is not part of the Arabic dance vocab. Sigh!The way my teacher teaches undulations is like this- and she refers to them as Egyptian undulations, meaning no lower body movement. To me this is a more of a chest circle, rather than an undulation as I know it.
Okay- Starting from neutral position- Chest OUT, Chest UP, Chest Back and Down...like a ferris wheel that is in reverse. Pelvic regions stays relatively still.
I'm going to add this to my list of misnamed moves along with the "taqsim" Why? Because Egyptian undulations are pelvic only. The whole chest circle thing is not part of the Arabic dance vocab. Sigh!
The way my teacher teaches undulations is like this- and she refers to them as Egyptian undulations, meaning no lower body movement. To me this is a more of a chest circle, rather than an undulation as I know it.
Okay- Starting from neutral position- Chest OUT, Chest UP, Chest Back and Down...like a ferris wheel that is in reverse. Pelvic regions stays relatively still.
What do you think? I find it hard to do frankly. My pelvis wants to rock on out with the chest.
If I want to do a really big undulation, I will do the chest circle thing and move my hips a bit as well, but usually I think mine are mainly in the lower body with just a little bit of chest movement. Actually, do people normally call the small sort camels and the big chest-circley sort undulations? Or am I just confused?
I find that sort a lot harder to do and make look good (my chest tends to not be lifted enough, or something). I think the only time I've been taught to keep the hips really still is when doing tribal. If I want to do a really big undulation, I will do the chest circle thing and move my hips a bit as well, but usually I think mine are mainly in the lower body with just a little bit of chest movement. Actually, do people normally call the small sort camels and the big chest-circley sort undulations? Or am I just confused?