My dream of bellydance...

In general I attend the belly dance class in the week, because of my work, I can only practice in the weekend. But this week, with the intersession time in the french center where I work, I have been practicing Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday! What a belly dancing week for me!

Monday I had the pleasure to dance with Anna, on of my first teacher, in the beginner’s class. It was so long time I did not see her, I was so excited, we had dance, chat in chinese, laugh together! Good time!

The class was easy but I enjoy seeing myself in the mirror, sometimes it is true that I am so focus on doing the good movement, I am closely watching the teacher and totally forget about watching myself, it’s a important part of the dance I think.

Tuesday is the advanced class, just one hour, but very intense one! Crystal as usually is dancing like a goddess, she is strong, beautiful and magic! I always think that there is a fire inside her when she begins to dance. The class was for sure difficult for me, but I was so enthusiastic about it that I think I was not too bad (Crystal is encouraging/correcting/explaining me so much, it’s a great motivation!). The best part is that I dance with Crystal, Anne and Vivie! Vivie, my ancient belly dance teacher but also my student in the French class (what a small world, isn’t it?).

We learned some movement of the chest going up and the belly going down (I have no idea how to say this in English ‘cause class in Chinese language!). But everything is going so fast! I just need time to keep the movement in my body’s memory! And then, doing it without thinking too much about what I do. Really good time! The bad point is… I suck at improvisation and I don’t feel the music yet. The music was actually complicated, but interesting, I like oriental music more and more.

Friday is the shimmy class… still with Crystal, always fun! But there are some shimmy that I cannot do, the little vibrations coming from my knees… nope, nope, nope, nothing! Arrrrrgggggghhh… Anyway, the music is drum, drum, drum… I am just keen on drum music !

Saturday is my weekend class for already 6 month. Now we are practicing veil, it’s sooooo funny! This class is just what I need after a week of work (even if I love my job!) just relaxing, amusing, using this beautiful veil as a oriental princess accessory! Elegant, feminine, light! And the classmates are all very funny! So, this is a shinny moment!

Veil is actually more difficult to use that we think, it's not just veil which fly evrywhere and makes the dancer pretty, no, actually it required a good technique and position of the arms in order to make the movement pretty, mysterious and elegant.

Crystal teaches us very well and she is always smiling, laughing, dancing, joking, even though sometimes I don’t get the chinese jokes! haha 

  Beautiful Crystal !

En forme, aujourd’hui, je me suis vraiment éclatée sur la musique.

Nous avons bossé sur une musique de percussions pour travailler les hanches et sur la chanson de Nancy Ajram Habibi pour s’entrainer sur le mouvement du chameau. Un vrai bonheur ! Voilà la video en dessous de la musique de Nancy.

J’ai aussi essayé mon premier costume de danse orientale, attention, en exclusivité mondiale, je vous montre ça en photo très bientôt ! C'était absolument magique!  Il était blanc, avec un voile blanc... like an oriental princess^_____^