Taksim Choreography

[amandajewls]

Thank you for making all of your choreographs on you tube available! It helps me keep in touch with my belly dancing movements and exercise when I need a gentle work out!

[Holomful]

this IS NOT a taksim!!

[okaysnoopy]

Thank you so much for posting this! I always love reviewing your videos. I hope you will continue to post more. I esp love ones where you show choreographies...hugs

[kittykat942]

Please could someone tell me what the name and artist of the music.

[amustela]

@kittykat942

Wusul Ila Baghdad2:14Bassil Moubayyedfrom the CD, Bellydance Treasures

or the longer version on;

Wusul lla Baghdad3:57Mohamed Ali EnsembleESSENTIAL BELLYDANCE with Neeva and Veena

[kittykat942]

Many thanks

[rvsaid1989]

not bad for begginers

[raqqasah]

you are so very graceful...thank u so much for this vdo. Im gonna try and get this music, and start to learn this choreography right away. Please keep uploading choreography vdoz like this that we can learn from. Ur teaching is very clear. God Bless.

[xclara37x]

pouquoi c'est en anglais je conprend rien !

[fashionizta143]

what is the title of the music? where can i get it? really need it.

[rnmrozjr]

It is at the begining of the vid. Listen carefully and you will hear it.

[vginlam]

Anyone knows the name of this music and where I can find it?

[amandajewls]

Thank you so much for these logical and well planned coreography tutorials. Having studied belly dancing for 11 years, I am no longer mobile but can still dance! Your home based availability means I can keep up my dance AND exercise!  Thank you so much!

[EXTERNOCLEIDOMAS]

gracias mustella.. thanks... mi esposa esta aprendiendo de tus pasos.. gracias nuestra vida sexual ha mejorado bastante gracias.. thanks amustella.

[flickeruk]

I Love your videos as a beginner I am finding them really useful. I have just begun using a veil and wanted to say thank you for sharing.

[flickeruk]

Thank you for sharing I have only just started to use a veil & to learn belly dancing. it's taking a lot longer after a car accident to re-learn dance but, I am enjoying it and your videos have helped me a lot. Thank You

[pimpmama247]

wow..ur amazing.. thanks to u, im getting better with combining my bellydance moves...and i love ur dresses.. thanks alot for that ur doing this.. umwah(^x^) keep making those videos... once again thanks (^_~)

[seelaurendance07]

ur videos are a WONDERFUL help for learning to combine moves! thank u!

[tritri29]

You are really generous to share this! Thanks so much!

[dinavienna]

amustela, i enjoy your instructions a lot! do you have them for sale/download for those not having internet at home? that would be sooo awesome..

[bax1cro]

ajme...kak superr

[JLselizabeth]

I've spent the last 2 days looking at your choreography videos and they're awesome.I'd love to see/learn more of them. I was also wondering if you still perform at Casablanca in Alexandria.

[amustela]

Hello, this is Amustela - I am not a regular performer at the Casablanca - I do however perform regularly at "La Kasbah" in Reston VA and "Pomegranate Grill" in Sterling VA - I always have my schedule posted at my website Thank you.

[OMANI91]

thank you so much for all those videos very instructive and well explained thank u than u thank u :D

[Rosiejj]

god this is sooo simple :/

[amustela]

Sorry - but this choreography was intended for a beginner's level class (folks who had only 8 weeks of expereince) - it actually looks pretty cool when you see a group perform this in unison. I will be posting a little more challenging drum solo in the near future.

[PrincessMaiya]

I love these step by step choreographies!! Thank you so much for posting them! Keep them coming! Thank you Amustela for allowing these to be posted! I do take lessons locally but I love being able to work on different styles taught from different perspective. More teachers should break things down so well like this!

[mandomom2003]

Hi Chryssanthi,

Thanks for speaking up to educate us. I do appreciate it. Amustela, I also appreciate what you are doing here, passing info on free of charge.

[chryssanthi]

By the way, I don't have anything against the choreography itself. I watched also some other videos with your choreographies and I found them very well structured and well explained. It is just this specific term problem here.

[chryssanthi]

Please give this dance another name, because it definitaly not a taksim

[rnmrozjr]

I understand - the use of the term "taksim" should refer to an unchoreographed - improvised dance performed to music - also improvised by a musician without structured beat. This video was originally intended just for my students - where I was able to explain the real definition - but the choreography was developed to help them learn the type of movements them might chose when dancing to taksim music. I apologize for the unintended misuse of the term.

[chryssanthi]

Sorry for disturbing you again, but the problem is, that also the music is not a 8/4 Taksim (or Chifteteli). For me it sounds rather like a 4/4 Elzaffa. And many movements of this choreography are not typicall for the Arabian Taksim. O.k. this style here is American Cabaret anyway, but since we understand something very specific under "Taksim" in the original Arabian style, it is better to call this dance here different.

[candycane21]

Thank you so much!

[Taskalee]

i can do dis, yea!!! no joke (^^,)- dis is a bit slow for me still