Summary: The diamond step in belly dancing creates a diamond shape with your feet. Learn the diamond step with tips from a dance expert in this free belly dancing video.
Lucila Velez specializes in many Middle Eastern belly dancing, Gypsy Flamenco, and Latin American dance styles. She has studied traditional forms with master dancers in the Middle...read more
"Thank you, my name is Lucila Velez, with Lucila Dance Productions. I'm going to demonstrate a diamond step, and we're going to be doing with the music of Akmar Garcia New Oasis. The diamond step is a step that you can utilize it in any of your dance moves, it's originally mainly jazzy, it's a more jazzy step, and it's a four count, we go front with your right, side with your left, back with your right, cross to your right with your left. So what you do is a diamond figure with your foot work; so you go front with your right, side with your left, back with your right, left cross with your left. Your body is in a little play, in a small play, your arms are away from your body, left in front, right, away; so we go front one, out two, with your left, back with your right, and cross with your left; when you go across with your left, your arms will be in the opposite direction, so right up in front of your chest, and left away from your body, so you go front play, side, back, and front; and 1, and 2, and back, and front; and front, side, back, front; 1,2,3,4; and front with your right, again, side with your left, back with your right, side with your left; front, side, back, cross; and again, diamond, 1,2,3,4; 1,2,3,4; front, side, back, cross; front, side, back, cross; again, front, side, back, cross; front, side, back, cross."