The following is a checklist of some of the basic movements covered throughout the BellyUp Bellydance Basics program. Pick several of these movements every day to practice. Always practice your shimmies every single day. Try to build  on your practice time. You may only have 5 minutes each day this week, try to make it 10 minutes a day the following week and so on.

Shimmies - double time movements done practice for 8 counts or longer

Egyptian Thigh Shimmy

Shoulder Shimmy

Choo Choo Shimmy

Shoulders

Shoulder Rolls

Shoulder Accents

Shoulder Shimmy

Snake Arms

Standing/Stationary Hip Work

Hip Accents (Upwards) alternating right and left.

Vertical Hip Accents (downwards) alternating right and left.

Hip Twists

Hip Slides

Wider Hip Sway Side to Side with Hip Bump

1.5 Foot Hip Work (Weight on one foot, other foot on the ball)

Hip Lifts & Hip Drops

Hip Circles (inward & outward)

Hip Crescent (front & back)

Hip Scoop (back & front)

Hip Twist (front to back)

Sit Kick (drop, drop kick)

Piston Hips

Pelvic work

Pelvic Tuck & Drop

Pelvic Drop & Tuck

Pelvic Circles (Small, Medium and Large)

Walk with pelvic circles

Basic Figure 8's

Horizontal - front to back

Horizontal - back to front

Vertical - down to up

Vertical - up to down (Maya)

Undulations - also referred to as Camel

Full body undulation/body wave starting at rib cage down to pelvis

Reverse full body undulation/body wave staqrting at pelvis to rib cage

Upper Body Undulation (rib cage circles vertically)

Pelvic Undulation (Camel - like a scoop of the pelvis)

Reverse Undulation (Belly roll - pelvis circles up & over)

Walking with Camel

Turns

3pt. turn side to side, forward and backward

Cross & Swivel

Travelling Steps

Chasse

Arabesque

Basic Egyptian Walk

Grapevine

Travelling with hip twists

Basic Arabic

Basic Arabic II

Basic Arabic III

Basic Arabic IV

Cross & Touch