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| Lesson Six |
| Subject: Lesson Six: Shimmies & Vibrations SHIMMIES & VIBRATIONS REVIEW: Shoulders: Thrust Hips I: Contractions, Drop, slide, front & back slide, Hips II: Twist ADD: Bowl or Tilt-a-whirl: Do a small hip circle and go up (as well as out) at the front, back and sides. SHIMMIES Hand Shimmy: the same as a hand flutter. Shoulder shimmy: Start with a shoulder thrust, and make it fast and smaller. Try to ensure that the movement is refined and graceful. Shoulder vibration: tighten up the shoulder muscles, as if to do a shoulder shimmy. But do not move the shoulders very far forward or backward. The movement is much like shivering when cold, and is very small. Hip Shimmy: slide the hips from side to side, keeping them straight. The movement is small and very fast. One Hip Shimmy: Place all the weight on one foot, and stretch out the other one slightly (this is the side that will be shimmy-ed). Slightly bend and straighten the knee very quickly, while tightening the muscles of the other side of the body especially the rear-end ones). Hip vibration: Tighten up the hip muscles as if to do a shimmy, but very little side to side movement should occur. This movement is so small that without fringe or something, the movement is practically unnoticeable. Egyptian (or twist) shimmy: Start with the hip twist (front and back with no up and down movement) Make is smaller and faster.Egyptian Vibration: Usually this refers to `layering' (doing more than one hip movement at a time-- We will get into that later.) Same as above but the movement is much smaller. Shuffle shimmy: this is a shimmy done while shuffling the feet very fast--this is a traveling move. 3/4 Shimmy: This is sometimes called the `duck walk'. Taking very small steps, shimmy. Try to shimmy the same amount on both sides of the body--favoring neither side. Typewriter: this is a shimmy while moving the hips right and left with the music (this is one example of layering: COUNTS: Contracted: up, down, up Dropped: And, down, and, down Twisted: Front, back, front. Tummy vibrations: tighten the stomach muscles. Then relax and tighten very quickly. For some it is easier to "push" out the stomach muscles to get the vibrations. This move takes a lot of practice to learn. |