FCBD®Style Fundamentals: Part One - Gratitude, Posture, Figure 8 (Taxeem), Wrist Rotations (Hand Floreo) and 4 basic steps
Recorded Live With Carolena From the FCBD® Studio
Welcome to the FatChanceBellyDance® Online Studio! I'm Carolena Nericcio-Bohlman and I am delighted to meet you.
Please join me in the first of six classes introducing the basics of FatChanceBellyDance®Style. We'll start with a description of FCBD®Style and a warm up stretch, and we'll learn the importance of Posture and the Moving Mediation before we add two slow steps:
Taxeem, Hand Floreo and finally a quick and fun overview of the 4 families of fast steps: Egyptian, Arabic, Pivot Bump/Choo-Choo and Shimmy. Oh, and drills...lots of drills!
Filmed live in studio, you'll get a glimpse of what its like to take classes from the creator of FatChanceBellyDance®
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Carolena Nericcio is the creator of FatChanceBellyDance® Style.
In 1974, Carolena began dancing with Masha Archer and the San Francisco Classic Dance Troupe. Masha’s style was an eclectic blend of classic Egyptian, Folkloric, and any other influence that she found enticing. In 1987, after the SF Classic Dance Troupe disbanded, Carolena began teaching in a small studio in the Noe Valley Ministry. Her only goal was to teach people to dance so she could have dance partners.
Being young and tattooed, Carolena attracted other young people living alternative lifestyles. The Modern Primitives movement was also underway. Tattoos and primitive styles of body adornment were the vogue. Carolena and her students performed at tattoo shows and conventions and became well known in the City by the Bay.