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PART 1

Getting started

Introduction

Welcome to my bookand my world. I want to share with you the basic principles of belly dancing, an art form that will burn fat and condition your abs, hips, buns, thighs, and arms as well as any conventional aerobic exercise program orTV infomercial workout machine Ive ever heard of. Belly dancing will also enhance your femininity and inner beauty as it adds a new dimension of artistic creativity and spontaneity to your daily routine.

Belly dancing can also open a doorway to a wider world that is exciting, exotic, andyesmagical. Im not talking about the make-believe, djinn-in-a-lamp kind of magic, either. Belly dancing is the kind of real-life magic that can transform the way you see the world and the world sees you.

Let me start by telling you what its done for me. Dance began to seduce me in high school. At parties, when everyone else made a beeline for the living room where rock and roll was blasting, I hung out in back rooms with the foreign students. I found their music contagious, the movements that expressed it challenging. One gathering so intrigued me that I practiced hip circles and shoulder shimmies for months, and the next thing I knew, I was on my way to becoming a full-fledged belly dancer.

I was especially drawn to Middle Eastern dance because of the costumes. My parents tell me I was obsessed with clothes from age three. By age nine, I was designing my own clothes. Belly dance presented the opportunity to adorn myself with fringe, sequins, dangling gold coins, and arm bracelets, to swirl in yards of silk veils, to deck myself out in colorful, elegant raiment one could never wear on the streetnot in Seattle, anyway.

After a year of practicing the same dance movements youll learn in this book, I took a summer job bussing tables at a Middle Eastern restaurant. Although I was too young to be allowed upstairs where they held the belly dance performances, I was able to sneak peeks at some of the famous dancers, with names like Dahlena and Badawia, who graced their stage and to hear my first full Arabic band.The owner thought I showed potential, or at least a lot of enthusiasm, and gave me a stage name: Dalal, which, I was told, meant spoiled: I thought that was kind of rude, but every time I mentioned my new name to an Arabic speaker, they smiled fondly, remembering a sister or cousin with that name. A kinder translation, I learned, might be pampered. I later changed the spelling to Dallal and eventually adopted it as my surname.The name has stuck ever since and has brought me a lot of luck.

From my earliest days as a dance student, I fantasized about visiting exotic places. For a while I bounced from one university to another, studying Farsi, Arabic, French, Sinhalese, Russian, and Japanese. A stint in VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) took me to Miami, where I worked with Cuban refugees and discovered my spiritual homean intensely multicultural city alive with tropical music, foreign languages, and romantic dark-eyed men. There I found myself passing out food stamps in a dismally bureaucratic officeuntil the day an opera singer friend urged, Tami, you belong on the stage.

But Im saving my money so I can travel, I said.

Performers travel more than office workers. You should consider taking your dancing to a professional level. Listen, Ive traveled all over the world. How do you think I paid for it?

How did you?

My voice bought my tickets for me, she said.

Even though I couldnt sing a note, her words spoke to my soul. Sooner than you might think, right after I saw the movie Romancing the Stone, I was on a plane to Bogot, Colombia. I brought along a sword, four costumes, and twenty dollars, and I danced my way around South America for the next year.

That was 21 amazing years ago. Since then, my dance career has taken me to more than 30 countries on five continents. Ive been crowned Ms. America of Belly Dance and Ms. World of Belly Dance, as have two of my proteges after me. I was also one of Ark 21 Records original Bellydance Superstars. Ive established a dance studio in South Beach, as well as a Middle Eastern dance company and a dancers boutique. Ive danced for Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, and Madonna, among many other notables. Ive produced videos, live shows, and a TV series about belly dancing. I continue to work as an instructor, performer, choreographer, and producer in many parts of the world, and I plan to do so for many years to come. Best of all, Ive lived the kind of adventures most women only dream about. And to think it all started with a few hip circles and shoulder shimmies!

Read on, and Ill show you how ...

how to use this book

this book presents an easy-to-follow plan for daily belly dance workouts. If you follow the plan for eight weeks, you will experience a dramatic transformation in your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.

In these pages youll learn about the basic movements of belly dance, with complete instructions for doing each of them yourself. But dont make the mistake of thinking that a belly dance workout is like other, more monotonous fitness methods such as aerobics.The essence of belly dance is combining the basic movements into spontaneous, creative dance routines. This book suggests some combinations to show you how it works, but after youve mastered the basics, you can (and should) let your imagination flow. You can derive exceptional fitness benefits without ever doing the exact same routine twice.

I strongly urge you to find a local instructor and sign up for belly dance lessons. It will help a lot in learning how to do the basic movements correctly. Then you can use this book to guide you through daily practice sessions between lessons. But even if this book is your only resourcelets say you live someplace where there are no belly dance teachers, such as a small town in Alaskayou can use it to learn and practice these movements, put them together to create your own belly dance routines, and have a lot of fun getting more and more physically fit.

In addition to the movements, youll find knowledge and insights to help your interest in belly dancing grow, such as tips on costumes and performing, a little about belly dances rich history, and insights into Middle Eastern music.Theres also a list of resources, including instructional videos, publications, and websites.

The world doesnt need any. more Hummers, Leather shoes, or new flavors of chips, but it definitely needs more belly dancers.

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