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Egyptian shimmy/Vibration shimmy/Glute shimmy : knees slightly bent with a shimmy generated by glutes and thighs tensening.
Lebanese shimmy/Knee shimmy/straight legged shimmy: legs straightened, feet flat on floor. each knee bends forward then back to origional position individually. (almost as though running with straight legs, but not lifting feet up off the floor.)
Turkish shimmy/ vertical shimmy: knees slightly bent, lift Right hip up, keeping left hip at origional level or dipping it down, and then swapping movement so that Left hip is lifted up, keeping left hip at origional level or dipping it down
Saaidi shimmy/ 'The Washing Machine': Feet flat on floor, twist waist to left so that left hip is diagonally in front and right hip is diagonally behind. then do the opposite motion so that Right hip is diagonally in front and left hip is diagonally behind.
chest shimmy: Repeating step above, but with shoulders rather then Hips.
Forward One legged shimmy/pronounced shimmy : weight on one leg [Leg A], other leg is on ball of foot out on front [Leg B] (the stance needed to do a hip drop) Using ball of foot on leg B, generate a small Egyptian shimmy/Vibration shimmy/Glute shimmy.
Back one legged shimmy: same position as above, but generate a Lebanese shimmy/Knee shimmy/straight legged shimmy with Leg A.
any others?
Lebanese shimmy/Knee shimmy/straight legged shimmy: legs straightened, feet flat on floor. each knee bends forward then back to origional position individually. (almost as though running with straight legs, but not lifting feet up off the floor.)
Turkish shimmy/ vertical shimmy: knees slightly bent, lift Right hip up, keeping left hip at origional level or dipping it down, and then swapping movement so that Left hip is lifted up, keeping left hip at origional level or dipping it down
Saaidi shimmy/ 'The Washing Machine': Feet flat on floor, twist waist to left so that left hip is diagonally in front and right hip is diagonally behind. then do the opposite motion so that Right hip is diagonally in front and left hip is diagonally behind.
chest shimmy: Repeating step above, but with shoulders rather then Hips.
Forward One legged shimmy/pronounced shimmy : weight on one leg [Leg A], other leg is on ball of foot out on front [Leg B] (the stance needed to do a hip drop) Using ball of foot on leg B, generate a small Egyptian shimmy/Vibration shimmy/Glute shimmy.
Back one legged shimmy: same position as above, but generate a Lebanese shimmy/Knee shimmy/straight legged shimmy with Leg A.
any others?
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Mon, March 26, 2007 - 5:48 AMFun :) Without too many details, here is what I can thing of at the moment:
***Hips***
These can all be done with weight on one leg or evenly distributed.
1. Classical Egyptian Shimmy: Controlled and created through the obliques - Can be done with emphasis on up or down
2. Modern Egyptian Shimmy: Controlled and created by moving the knee/using the legs - Can be done with emphasis on up or down
3. Suhaila Shimmy: Controlled and created with the glutes - Can be done with emphasis on up or down
4. Tunisian Shimmy: Twisting or Washing Machine shimmy
5. Ghawazee shimmy: Hips on each side alternating in sets of up/down/out or out/up/down (variation on 3/4)
6. Freeze shimmy: Created by bouncing through the heels
7. Side to Side shimmy: Hips go out to sides rather than up and down
8. Choo-Choo shimmy: Created by tiny steps with the feet
9. Hagallah shimmy: 3/4 shimmy variation with twist inward and over on the 1
10. 3/4 shimmy: Each hip either up/down/up or down/up/down (can be done with 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 from hips)
11. 2/4 shimmy: Hips alternate in groups of up/up or down/down (can be done with 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 from hips)
12. Turkish shimmy: Pelvic drop shimmy
13. Forward/back shimmy: pelvis forward and back with no tilting
***Upper Body***
1. Shoulder shimmy: Forward and back motion of the shoulders (can be done in groups such as 5, 10 , 11 from hips)
2. Chest shimmy: Tightened and lifted rib cage makes twisting motion
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I also consider flutters as a type of shimmy :) -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Fri, March 30, 2007 - 9:45 AMany others? -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Fri, March 30, 2007 - 12:17 PMAziza taught a drum solo at a workshop that included a head shimmy. I don't know if this qualifies as a standard belly dance move; it was more of a cute element thrown into the choreography.
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Sat, March 31, 2007 - 5:56 AMFreeze shimmy: Done by tensing all the muscles in the legs so you end up with a small vibration (works well with belly rolls).
One-cheek shimmy: Rapid glute squeezes/releases on one side. -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Sun, April 1, 2007 - 4:01 AMin Argentina we make a difference with the vibrattion nd shimmy...do you count them aswell as shimmy or avoid it now? (I know u r asking shimmy but...), vibration is softer....like the one you can make for follow a stringed unstrument. -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Fri, May 4, 2007 - 6:04 PMHi all,
I going to search for clips on some of these shimmies I've not heard of before, but does anyone already know of links to some video of specific shimmies just listed here?? -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Mon, May 7, 2007 - 9:01 PMShan, what you are calling a Freeze Shimmy, I'd call a vibration.
And Eugenia, I figure that anything moveable that is even (left hip/right hip, left shoulder/right shoulder, left glute/Right glute) on both sides is a shimmy.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the African Shimmy: Up and down (simultaneous) vertical shimmy on the Torso. -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Tue, May 8, 2007 - 12:07 PMHi Valizan -- can you give more details on the African shimmy you're describing? What specifically is moving up and down? -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Tue, May 8, 2007 - 9:14 PMHi Joanna!
When I do African Shimmy, it is my pecs dropping up and down fast, while my lower torso (hips and abdomen) come up to meet them at the same pace. So pecs drop, abs and company go up. Release. Repeat to your delight (I wouldn't recommend more than 10 repetitions.)
There is kinetic energy to push them into place, but you do an instant release so that they fall back to normal relaxed position.
And Shan, no the move doesn't come from the knees. They may be peripherally involved, but this is an upper body move. Yasmina does that move, and it iooks similar, except my way is more isolated to the torso. Hers sends chest and abs shooting downward at the same time and upward at the same time. Mine had defiinite opposition in movements.
I don't know if this made sense. -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Tue, May 8, 2007 - 9:21 PMValizan, is the movement you describe also done in hip-hop, sometimes with a walk or a march? -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Wed, May 9, 2007 - 9:13 AMTo be honest Leyla, I couldn't tell you... I don't know.
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Wed, May 9, 2007 - 6:59 AMOk! I was picturing something entirely different.
And yes, your description makes perfect sense....
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Wed, May 9, 2007 - 2:26 PMThanks! I was experimentally moving different torso parts up and down last night, and ended up doing what you just described :)
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Tue, May 8, 2007 - 8:42 PM*shrugs*
I consider vibrations a subclass of shimmies. Anything that makes me shake is a shimmy to me....
Is the African shimmy the bounce shimmy (bouncing with the hamstrings simultaneously with each leg)? -
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Re: can you list and describe all the Shimmies you know?
Sat, May 12, 2007 - 7:35 AMI think of double hips (up or down or twist or up and over) as separate from shimmies. I totally see how they look like shimmies, so it makes sense. It just feels very different for me.
Great lists of shimmies here.
I haven't seen what i learned as "shimmy number 4" - it is initiated with the multifidus mucles in the lower back. Mona Said and Shoo Shoo Amin were masters of it. I've seen Nagwa do it on one or two videos.
It's really difficult to get right as it's a lengthening of the lower back, or straightening the lower back towards the back (while keeping pubic bone essentially centered) to create a front/back shimmy.
biology.clc.uc.edu/graphics...elvis.jpg
Referencing the picture- you are rocking the top crest of the ilium back while keeping the pubis centered and essentially still.
When done incorrectly (initiating with the rectus abdominus will bring the pubic bone up and forward and initiating with the glutes will thrust the pubic bone forward), it looks really lewd. There's info on it here:
www.serpentine.org/yasmin/B...scles.htm
Yasmin does it a couple times on here:
www.youtube.com/watch
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Re: shimmy number 4
Sat, May 12, 2007 - 5:11 PMThanks so much for introducing me to this shimmy. I really appreciate your description and all the links you provided. I just stood up and tried it, and it's hard! My rectus abdominus wants to "help". I wonder if there are there any other names for this movement?" -
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Rotational shimmy?
Tue, October 2, 2007 - 1:23 PMNot sure if I missed this being mentioned, but it's like a Brasilian samba move, tiny hip circles done very fast. (difficult too!)
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