Choreography Studio
The World Dance New York Choreography Studio is a collection of belly dance instructional videos, each teaching one dance choreography. The Choreography Studio features various genres of belly dancing, or Oriental Dance, and skill levels from absolute beginner to advanced.
Some of the choreographies listed here are available on DVDs (for instance, the Fantasy Belly Dance series - Mystery, Desire & Magic, or Neon's beginner belly dancing choreographies "Eternal Spring" & "Party Girl", "Sensual Dream" & "Sexy Hips"). Others are instant video only (for instance, "Zeina - A Theatrical Oriental Dance Choreography" by Autumn Ward, "City of Dreams: An Evocative Belly Dance Choreography" by Neon, or "Bir Demet - A Classic Belly Dance Veil Choreography" by Tanna Valentine).
City of Dreams: An Evocative Belly Dance Choreography by Neon
Along with classic belly dance hip work, well resolved footwork, and clean elegant lines, Neon included in this dance lots of material that has modern, high-impact flair - dramatic elongated poses like the images of art deco dancers, beautiful arm patterns that go beyond framing your hipwork, evocative gestures and the clean and uncluttered pacing that gives your audience a chance to savor the bold strokes with which you are painting the canvas of your dance.
$14.99
Zeina: A Theatrical Oriental Dance Choreography, Autumn Ward
Autumn Ward’s ZEINA: A Theatrical Oriental Dance Choreography is an advanced-level belly dance choreography, taught and performed to the classic Egyptian song Zeina by composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab.
$14.99
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Party Girl - A Belly Dance Drum Solo by Neon for beginners
Neon's Party Girl is a sexy, flirty, and vibrant belly dance drum solo choreography designed for absolute beginners.
This instructional video includes detailed explanation and demonstration of classic belly dance steps from all groups of the belly dance vocabulary and teaches how to weave them together into attractive combinations.
The practice section features a beat counter, helpful in learning dance rhythm and timing. If you are not familiar with standard belly dance terminology, you will see the names of each step and transition displayed on screen.
Neon introduces each belly dance move step-by-step and places each one in the context of a dance combination, so that from the very beginning you learn how to combine dance steps and how combinations express rhythms.
$9.99
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Eternal Spring: A Beginner Belly Dance Choreography by Neon
Neon's Eternal Spring is a sensual, slow belly dance ciftetelli choreography and step-by-step breakdown, perfect for absolute beginners. The dance has a dreamlike romantic flow following a beautiful flute melody, and features all the basic groups of belly dance moves, both fluid and percussive. The breakdown of the choreography is accompanied by a detailed explanation and demonstration of classic belly dance steps and ways to weave them together into attractive combinations. The practice section features a beat counter, helpful in learning dance rhythm and timing. If you are not familiar with standard belly dancing terminology, you will see the names of each step and transition displayed on screen.
$9.99
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Fire Goddess: Belly Dance Choreography by Neon - Instant Video
Neon's Fire Goddess is a candle tray belly dance choreography, intermediate to advanced level. Music: ‘Fire Goddess’ by Raul Ferrando. Great for perfecting and expanding your tray balancing skills, and for an elegant and sophisticated performance at a commercial venue, private event, or a peer-review dance showcase. Neon offers a detailed breakdown of every step, and practice with and without the candle tray. She also shares tips & ideas on logistics of performing with candles.
$14.99
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Sensual Dream: A Belly Dance Choreography by Neon, Beginner Bellydance
Learn a fluid and sensuous dance set to a slow ciftetelli rhythm (beginner level). The Sensual Dream choreography is taught step-by-step, combination by combination. The practice section features a beat counter, helpful in learning dance rhythm and timing. Neon teaches the count as you weave steps into belly dancing combinations - very helpful to learn proper pacing and the structure of the ciftetelli rhythm. As you follow Neon in the practice section, you can check your timing against the beat counter on screen and learn to use belly dance accents in a way that brings out the beauty of ciftetelli rhythm.
$9.99
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Sexy Hips - Belly Dance Drum Solo choreography by Neon
Learn a fast-paced and playful classic belly dance drum solo (intermediate level) choreography. Neon teaches it step-by-step, combination by combination. With its sensual, light-footed and flirtatious flair, this dance is perfect for a belly dancing performance and as a practice piece to work on developing nimble ease of movement and suppleness of percussive hipwork. It includes a wide array of expressive well-resolved combinations linked with clean effortless transitions you can use in the context of many belly dance genres and styles. Neon introduces each move step-by-step and places each one in the context of a dance combination that works just right with intricate maksoum rhythm variations.
$9.99
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Silk Flame, Belly Dance Fan Veils, Tanna Valentine
Created by Tanna Valentine, New York-based star of belly dance, Silk Flame is a workshop presenting technique, dance vocabulary, and practice sessions for belly dance with fan veils. Originating in Asian dance forms, fan veils have become one of the most dazzling and versatile props in bellydance. The delicate ripples, flame-like swirls, and larger-than-life air patterns of a fan veil mimic and complement the dancer's fluid gliding movement, accented hipwork, and dramatic poses, and allow her to create a rich and glamorous show.
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Salomé: An Intermediate Belly Dance Choreography, by Naraya
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Naraya's 'Salome' Tribal Fusion choreography presents a dramatic archetypal image that emphasizes story-telling through dance.
The program contains a step-by-step breakdown of its entire choreography.
Also including tips on expression, projection, and developing meaningful dance.
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SERPENT: An Advanced Belly Dance Choreography
Neon's "Serpent" belly dance choreography conjures up a mysterious archetypal image and focuses on fluid sophisticated movement, expressivity and story-telling through dance. The program contains tep-by-step breakdown of the "Serpent" choreography, and belly dancing practice with music for every combination. Music 'Agni and Soma' by Tim Rayborn. Advanced level.
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Secret Gift - Belly Dance & Ritual Dance for Beginners with Neon
Neon’s “Secret Gift - Belly Dance & Ritual Dance for Beginners” is a blend of belly dance, ritual dance, or ‘sacred dance,’ and movement meditation. It honors dance as ritual rather than dance as theater, putting its personal and healing aspects above purely visual. You will focus on what you feel yourself as opposed to creating experiences for your audience. Dance instruction in this program is for absolute beginners. However, if you are interested in learning how to use dance in ritual, or in creating a temple dance experience based on belly dance, it’s open level. Besides basics of bellydance technique, Neon teaches a lot of steps, poses, and gestures designed to convey archetypal, symbolic or spiritual meaning you can weave in your own personal ritual or performance.
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SHADOW: Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Choreography, by Sera Solstice
Sera's 'Shadow' is an advanced level Tribal Fusion belly dance choreography, conjuring a mysterious and dramatic archetypal image. The emphasis is on story-telling...through dance. This full-length Tribal Fusion belly dance instructional program contains step-by-step breakdown of the choreography, practice with music for every combination, and a full theater performance in costume.
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Enchantress - Advanced Belly Dance Choreography by Autumn Ward
Autumn Ward's Enchantress choreography from World Dance New York's FANTASY BELLY DANCE series, conjures up an evocative archetypal image. The emphasis is on story-telling through dance. The program contains Autumn's step-by-step breakdown of her choreography, together with tips on expression, projection, and developing meaningful dance.
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Yearning: Belly Dance / Flamenco Fusion Choreography by Elsa Leandros
The choreography combines belly dance steps & isolations with the skirt dance technique, some footwork & styling from Flamenco. This class requires familiarity with belly dance vocabulary. Elsa Leandros breaks down elements of Flamenco technique. In terms of its mood & story, this dance is about a memory that evokes passion, self-discovery, and inspiration.
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Brooklyn Baladi: A Tribal Belly Dance Choreography by Lady M.
This instructional video includes breakdown of each combination, plus practice with music of each combination and the whole dance from the top. The choreography demonstration includes playing the zils. If you are familiar with the basic zil playing technique, you will be able to practice zil playing with Tribal belly dancing steps and add an extra layer of sophistication to this graceful dance.
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Warrior Princess: Advanced Sword Belly Dance, Isidora Bushkovski
This choreographic instruction teaches a sophisticated sword dance vocabulary, in the context of story-telling through belly dance. The program contains Isidora's step-by-step breakdown of her dance, and practice-with-music for every combination.
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Burlesque Chair Dance Muscle Conditioning Practice & Dance-Along with Jo Weldon
Burlesque Chair Dance Muscle Conditioning Practice & Dance-Along with Jo Weldon is a 30-minute sequence of chair dance moves and combinations designed to help you condition your body for burlesque chair dance and to practice classic chair dance moves and poses. Includes a dance-along routine and a lot of tips to polish your dance technique and showmanship.
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NYMPH: Hand Veils Belly Dance Choreography by Blanca
Blanca's 'Nymph' belly dancing choreography is lyrical and romantic...It teaches belly dance with hand veils, and emphasizes story-telling through dance. The program contains step-by-step breakdown of technique & belly dance choreography, tips on developing meaningful dance, practice with music for every combination and a full theater performance in costume.
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Bir Demet: A Classic Belly Dance Veil Choreography by Tanna Valentine
The Bir Dimet Classic Belly Dance Veil Choreography by Tanna Valentine is both a performance-ready dance and a collection of iconic veil dance moves and tricks put together for technique polishing and practice. If you are new to belly dance, this program will be your shortcut to mastering the fundamentals of veil dancing and performing with the veil.
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KALI: An Advanced Belly Dance Choreography, by Ariellah
Ariellah's Tribal Fusion Kali choreography conjures up a striking archetypal image with Gothic flavor, part of World Dance New York's FANTASY BELLY DANCE series, emphasizing story-telling through dance.
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Temple Priestess: Belly Dance Choreography, by Darshan
Darshan's 'Temple Priestess' choreography conjures up an evocative archetypal image of mystery and ritual: Story-telling through belly dance. The program contains step-by-step breakdown of choreography, practice with music for every belly dance combination and a full theater performance in costume. The choreography you will learn includes moves with the belly dance veil.
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Phoenix: An Isis Wings Belly Dance Choreography by Ayshe
Ayshe's Isis Wings 'Phoenix' choreography conjures up a mysterious and spiritual archetypal image, emphasizing story-telling through dance. The program contains a full step-by-step breakdown of the choreography, plus practice with music for every combination and a full theater performance in costume by the artist, Ayshe.
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Fire Dance Pre-Performance & Safety how-to with Jodi Waseca World Dance New York's Fire Pre-Performance & Safety instructional video with Jodi Waseca demonstrates the basics of preparing for a fire performance act such as fire eating, fire dancing, and other genres of movement requiring the manipulation of fire. The video offers crucial guidelines for keeping yourself and your audience safe during your show.
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Saidi Festival - Belly Dance Cane Choreography with Tanna Valentine
Belly Dance Cane Choreography by Tanna Valentine featuring Egyptian-style Saidi dance (raks assaya). Step-by-step and practice with music.
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