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From me, Kamal Ballan, to you about the dance: “the belly dance- secret of happiness”

Belly Dancing - it’s a genre, that connects the soul with the body, opening a path to happiness of life. It will introduce you for the first time with your body and with new feelings from the surrounding aura of air around you…

Recently, many new schools have opened, claiming they can teach belly dancing. However, many students were disappointed in these schools. The ability to dance is not enough, to call yourself a teacher. Choreography, psychology and many other aspects are needed to be able to communicate with your students successfully. And that’s not all. To teach belly dancing and dance in general- it’s not just teaching seductive techniques! In the first place, its teaching coordination, the inability to connect movement of your hands and feet, cannot be called dance. The skill of coordinated movements can be acquired through practice of special exercises, which should be practiced daily. A great teacher will offer you these exercises, which will also improve your flexibility. But the monotone repetition of mimicking the teacher is a good indicator to think about. The only thing you are guaranteed to gain from such classes – “Schwarzenegger's” muscles.

The second thing, which is indispensable to a full dance teaching, is teaching the correct listening to music. Music, especially Arabic, does not imply a random dancing - on the contrary. Turns, shakings, eights, even super-skillfully executed "star" dancer, must be performed to the music. That is, only if it is justified. Unfortunately, even the most eminent dancer and teacher can sin complete lack of understanding of musical material.

Teaching belly dancing on video is also not the best option. It may even be harmful if blindly copy the dancer on the screen. It's not that a number of teaching records contain technical errors in the performance of the elements of belly dancing. The dancer in the video has another nature and figure, another soul, another personality. You have your own personality. Love it. Like belly dancing, which is intended to reveal the uniqueness of every woman! And come to classes. You need to live communication with the teacher so that he can solve your specific problem. It would be very wise to start learning dancing individually, taking at least a few lessons (no less than five). First of all, it can help you to develop the beautiful (that is suitable to you personally) positions of the body, arms and legs in the dance, straighten your posture. Yes, private lessons will cost a bit more expensive than the group, but it is tremendously accelerate your understanding and knowledge, and also save you as a beginner dancer from psychological discomfort at injection in a dance group, where somehow everyone compares himself with others.

Summarize. Choosing a school for belly dancing classes, approach to the issue seriously. You do it for yourself, you invest your time, money and power, and the task of a competent teacher – to ensure valuable efficiency. A professional belly dancing teacher should know music, choreography, psychology, the language and the Arabic culture. The sincere belly dancing is part of an old culture and tradition and has nothing to do with a vulgar dance that can be seen in a restaurant "a-lya Vostok". Only a professional and a true fan will show you and help you to fall in love with the dance. Only with a great teacher, your first steps will evolve into a confident walk and you will be on your way to eternal happiness from your ability to have full control of your body.

Concentrate on yourself, love yourself, don't allow yourself to be fooled, and don't waste anytime making our short life on this earth more fulfilling and joyful. Everything depends on you. I will be waiting!

Arab, composer and choreographer Kamal Ballan.From me, Kamal’ Ballan, to you about the dance: “the belly dance- secret of happiness”

OPEN YOUR CHAKRAS, FRIENDS!

Chakras mean neurovascular structure, plexus. Doctor Shahvar says, that they are situated in seven different places in organism. "When we take care about these plexuses, these chakras, it means that we improve circulation of the blood. Kamal Ballan, teacher of studio "Dance of Life", says: Intimate woman's muscles -are muscles, holding the place, where house of life is situated. Belly is house of life after all! And shaking in that way means opening chakras with only one aim - to give love to the world.

Alina from " Moscow. Instruction for application"

MAN'S BELLY: AWAY WITH LABOUR CALLOSITY!

Man's belly or paunch -this problem is familiar to every second man in the prime of life. After 30 years men often begin to grow in different places. Sportsman, worker, office worker, clerk, President of Russian Federation -everybody has this problem. There are different methods to solve it, but not all of them are suitable for men. Kamal Ballan, choreographer of "Bellydance school of Kamal Ballan" says: "Drank a lot of beer? Come to me! I cannot say that I have very sportive belly, but I feel every muscle in my body!"
Muscles are possible at any age. Do not hurry! And do not forget to ask your wife!

Vasilisa from " Moscow. Instruction for application"

ORIENTAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Arabs say that when woman performs bellydance percussion instruments lead her hips, wind instruments lead her heart and stringed instruments -her head. Get acquainted with traditional oriental musical instruments and listen to them if you have possibility:
Dumbek (also known as tabla or darbuka)
Finger cymbals
Kanoon (stringed instrument)
Violins
Oud (similar to a guitar)
Accordion
Tambourine