How to Perform Modern Egyptian Dance Part 1

[Music playing] Let us start our -- intro of the song by using an Egyptian Shimmy. Our knees and ankles as close together as possible and just pushing out with the knees. I am going to turn side ways so you can look at that. My pelvis is tucked underneath me. I have a lift on the chest, I am not in pleae. I am standing with my knees straight. I am not locking my knees. It is very important, do not lock your knees at anytime really it is not very good for you but especially during an Egyptian Shimmy, that will slow you down to lock and then unlock. You are standing straight. Your knees are not lock. They are supported by the muscles in your legs in a relaxed way, and you are just pushing out. And the pushing out of the knees is making everything above the knees vibrate, okay? So, I am going to layer that Shimmy on top of a horizontal figure 8. My horizontal figure 8, we will start with the right, pushing in front, side back, twist, left side front, side back, right hip, front, side, back, twist left hip, front, side, back and let us layer the shimmy over that, good. We are going to do one count on each side, so the count would be one, two, three, four, repeat, One, two, three, four, Now, we are going to keep the Shimmy. Do not stop. No pause in the Shimmy, keep shimmying and instead of layering the shimmy over the hip horizontal figure 8, we are going to layer the Shimmy over a segmented hip circle. The segmented hip circle is right, front, left, back, change direction, left, front, right, back. And on the last one, we have a half a count in between the end of this measure and the beginning of the next and we are going to use that in between step to hip circle around and bring the right leg up, ready for a hip drop. So, the hip circle will be right, front, left, back, left, front, right, back around, ready for the next measure. The next measure is diagonal arms, right hip, toe pointed and hip lifted, drop and kick, drop and kick, switch sides, arms out, drop and kick, and here is that part of the song Mativi which means come here. Drop and kick, drop and kick, come here, come here, one more time, Drop, kick, drop, kick, drop, kick, come here, come here, good. Okay, let us run through that now, One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, Right, front, left, back, left, front, right, back and around, One, two-switch, One, two, one, two-switch, One, two, good! Let us move on.