Level up! Intermediate level bellydance online course by Aliah.

Welcome to the first video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

The first video of the course you will begin with repeating the body positions. This is a very important topic for the dancer of any level! Aliah will explain in details about the positions of your body, hands and legs.

The second part of this class Aliah dedicates to the balance and how to train it. She will give you a set of 5 exercises. Training them regularly you will be able to improve the balance of your body and without a problem complete various difficult technical elements.

We recommend you to use a fitness brick while working on exercises presented in this video (can be bought in any fitness shop). Also, the ballet bar (can be a stable chair or a wall, for instance), suitable to serve as your support for completing some of the balance exercises.

Welcome to the second video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

This video is dedicated to the movement called Omi. You’ve already learned how to do basic version of it in the video #2 of the Start bellydance, course for beginners. And today you will work on variations (more difficult versions) of this movement. At the end of the video you will find a combo with all the learned variations, which you can use to train omi in combination with the other movements.

Omi is one of the most popular movements in oriental dance. You can do it in combination with the other movements, so the result can be quite spectacular and difficult combo. Today we will try to do omi with Grand plié, with hands, on one leg, with steps and with twists.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the third video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this class you begin to work on your hips technique. We will learn how to do both large hips movements (such as big hips circle) and smaller ones (such as up and down accents with hips using your butt and belly muscles). The movements from this lesson you will practice in a few variations, adding your upper body, hair and moving in circle. In the end of the video Aliah gives you a little improvisation combo to drill the hips movements learned in this class.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the next video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this class you continue to work on your hips technique. This whole class is dedicated to hip drop variations. And so, you will learn 3 of them: hip drop with backbend, double hip drop with turn and double hip drop with change of sides. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music. In the end of the video Aliah gives you a little improvisation combo to drill the movements learned in this class.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 5th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this class you continue to work on your hips technique and the next element is hip twist. So, in this class you will learn to hip twist variations: hip twist with steps, hip twist bending forward and hip twist with chest accent. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music. In the end of the video Aliah gives you a little improvisation combo to drill the movements learned in this class.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 6th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

This video lesson is dedicated to shimmy variations: knee shimmy and figure eight, knee shimmy and chest up & down, knee shimmy and belly accent. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music. In the end of the video Aliah gives you a little improvisation combo to drill the movements learned in this class.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 7th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this online bellydance class you will learn choo-choo shimmy variations: choo-choo shimmy and figure eight, choo-choo shimmy and accent down, choo-choo shimmy and chest circle. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music. In the end of the video Aliah gives you a little improvisation combo to drill the movements learned in this class.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 8th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

Aliah continues to share her secrets of bellydance technique and today she will give you 3 hip accent variations: hips slide with accent up&down, hips slide with turn and hips accent down with shimmy. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 9th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

Aliah continues to share her secrets of bellydance technique and today she will give you 3 figure eight variations: figure eight with side steps, one hip figure eight with shimmy and figure eight going down. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 10th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

Aliah continues to share her secrets of bellydance technique and today she will give you 3 shoulder shimmy variations: shoulder shimmy plus backbend, shoulder shimmy plus figure eight and shoulder shimmy with movements down. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 11th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this video Aliah will give you 3 variations for shoulders plus hips movements: omi with chest plus mi with hips, the same movements with an accent down and chest slide plus hips slide. The movements from this lesson you will practice with and without the music.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 12th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this video Aliah presents the Belly workout. Today she will explain two difficult belly movements: flutter and belly wave. But not only them! She will also give you 3 combos with those movements, with which you can practice and dance on stage.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 13th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this video Aliah explains the technique of one of her favorite movements – Arabesque. She also gives you 3 combos with this movements with which you can practice and dance on stage.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 13th video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this video Aliah give you 3 advanced combinations with turns which you can practice and dance on stage.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!

Welcome to the 15th and final video of the Level up! course for intermediate level by Aliah

In this video Aliah gives you a lot of advances arms technique and 2 bombastic combinations which you can practice and dance on stage.

Do not forget to thoroughly warm-up before starting the class!