Inner Elbow Attitude
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TURKISH HIP ARTICULATIONS ORIENTALE & “You must open the chest ROMANII DANCE and arms. Imagine that The Basis Karsilama Step CLASS#3 you have two large balloons in the spaces Bouncing Hip Circles above your shoulders at Body Cuts the side of your neck. It is Roll, roll, dip and roll, Artie’s “jewelry” a matter of carriage, of roll Wrist (1), inner elbow attitude. Experiment with (3), shoulder (5), inner your wingspan. Get to The “W” elbow (7,8) know the inside upper - wrist, shoulder, wrist part of your arms. on the next 7,8,9 Explore the space above STEPS & HOPS your shoulders and below Hop up on your toes, your ears… do head twist to the side, drop Heart slides.” down, hop back up on Solar Plexus Eva Cernik your toes, twist to the Single cut across belly or middle repeat on the other pubis “You need to exercise side, return to the middle variations: your ankles every day. and hop in place twice- Pubis, belly or Work and stretch your vary with a Karsilama pubis, belly, pubis, belly ankles. They help a lot with good balance. Also, The Pony Belly, chest or a benefit from strong and belly, chest, belly, chest flexible ankles is the One legged kick ability to change levels. Eva’s full body salutation As you dance or during a Stomach, head, heart drum solo, it is interesting Heart, head, mouth to suddenly drop out of TRAVELING STEPS sight, or to go down in Artie’s Drunken RIB-CAGE four stages and then wind Trapezium ARTICULATIONS back up and drop each Rib lifts and drops hip below the level of the Skipping Drunken w/arms in S shape or other in four drops down Trapezium overhead to a deep knee bend with back straight. Knees just Karsilama arabesque step Rib lifts to the right and take turns bending lower (step, step, step, hold) to the left – or- and lower. Very effective 2 to the right, 2 to the left for the viewer. Eva’s 3 steps & a hop with walk When the music becomes very high pitched, high Artie’s Abrupt ¼ turn Tight little chest shimmy notes, it would be good to change of direction w/S shaped arms see you rise up to your toes (balls of the feet) Tulay’s 1 out, 1up w/side Tight little chest shimmy again, this needs balance traveling hip thrust, w/scooping shoulder and ankle support.” looking over shoulder at pound Eva Cernik hip Step, step together, step Artie’ s hip crescent Raise both arm straight w/side step (arms in S Hip pounds up and do three shape) descending reversing Shoulder pounds hand undulations Step, step, step, and pull back Leaning back on both -2 to right knees- -1 to left Shaking the skirt out -1 center Scooping the grain into Artie’ s running side step the skirt Step, step, pull back, step Tulay Karaca Shimmy Train Floor variations -in place -traveling Cross legged descent -getting up- extend forward leg & assume Grapevine posture 1, rise from there Sitting cross legged TURNS Utilize – Artie’ s Karsilama step S-shaped arms w/quarter turns Head slides Rib lifts & drops Tulay’ s Reversing Turn w/S shaped arms Tulay’ s bent leg back bend touching tummy or Circle within a circle sternum Eva’ s Hopping Grapevine Getting up- in a circle Extend forward leg & assume posture 1, rise Zinnur Barrel Turn from there with one arm Eva’ s Drunken Sailor Burgil Benay’s Floor variations Eva' s finger wiggle FLOORWORK gestures Lie on floor between legs On one knee leaning cross arms over each forward other and touch floor at hips, shoulders, head Washing the skirt Lie on floor between legs Floor Pound ZIL & DRUM PATTERNS FOR TURKISH DANCE MUSIC Drum pattern for Turkish Karsilama (Turkish 9/8) DOUM (teca) TEC (teca) DOUM (teca) TEC TEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Zil patterns for Turkish Karsilama R R R R R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R RL R RL R RL R LL- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 RLRLRLRLRLRLR-LL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R-RL-R-RL-RLRLR-LL 1 3 5 7 8 9 Drum pattern for Turkish Chiftitelli (Turkish 8/4) DOUM TEC TEC DOUM DOUM TEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DOUM TEC TEC DOUM TEC TEC DOUM DOUM TEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DOUM CA-TEC TEC CA-TEC TEC TECA DOUM TECA DOUM TECA TEC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Zil patterns for Turkish Chiftitelli R RLR RLR R L R R RLR RLR RLR,RLR,RLR Drum pattern for Bolero ( Rhumba ) (Slow Turkish 4/4) DOUM (ca) TECTEC DOUM TEC DOUM TEC 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & DOUM (ca) TECATECA DOUM TEC DOUM TEC 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & Zil patterns for Turkish Bolero R RLR R L R L R RLR RLRLRLR 1 1&2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SOME MORE RECCOMENDED TURKISH BOOK AND RECORDINGS A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF TURKISH DANCING The book for information from folk dancing to whirling dervishes-Belly dancing to ballet. A must have! By Metin And Dost Yayinlari Ahmet Rasim So. 15/5 Cankaya-Ankara, Turkey 1976 ORIENTAL BELLY DANCE By Kemal Ozdemir Donence Basim ve Yayin Hizmetleri Catalcesme Sokak no. 15/2, 34410 Cagaloglu-ISTANBUL/TURKEY Tel.: (90.212) 511 18 89 Fax: (90.212) 511 58 83 ISBN 975-7054-11-9 Istanbul, 2002 Incrediable picture of Turkish Dancers, past and present. However Artemis says here is a lot of controversy in the USA over the English translation. She believes (as do I) that the trasnlator was biased and possibly didn' t approve of the subject matter. BUT THE PIX AND BITS OF HISTORY ARE FABULOUS AND WELL WORTH PUSHING THE BOOK ON THE UNENLIGHTENED BELLY DANCER. SEXUAL LIFE IN THE OTTOMAN SOCIETY By Sema Nilgun Erdogan Donence Basim ve Yayin Hizmetleri Catalcesme Sokak no. 15/2 Cagaloglu ISTANBUL/TURKEY Tel.: (0212) 511 18 89 Fax: (0212) 511 58 84 ISBN 975-7054-00-3 Istanbul, 2000 Also avaiable by the the same publisher (I don’t have them would love them!) Myths of Turkey Turkish Anecdotes MUSIC FROM TURKEY POP TARKAN – TARKAN - KUZUKUZU ARTEMIS LOVES ANYTHING BY IBRAHIM TATLISES AND B CACAN! MEZDEKE 1-6 Misir Danslari Koda Music (Arabic Pop that Turks like to dance to especially Troupe Mezdeke) ROMANI MUSIC EDIIIRNE ROMANLARI - DELI SELIM & KADIR URUN ROMAN OYUN HAVALARI VOL. 1 & 2 ROMAN DUGUNU–SOZLU ROMAN OYUN HAVALARI– SULUKULE NIGHTS ACAYIP CIFTETELLIER-1 MUHABBETINIZ BOL OLSUN ROMAN CIFTETELLISI 1-4 OTURAKLI CIFTETELLI - ALEMKI NE ALEM BOL DARBUKALI- SUPER CIFTETELLI O BICIM CIFTETELLI VOL. 1, 2, 3 BELLY DANCE VOLUME 5 TULAY KARACA DUGUN SENLIGI .