Learn this fun and exciting style of belly dance with expert dancer and historian Artemis! First Artemis teaches a brief history of Turkish Style Belly Dance, including contributions of the Turkish Romany people, and describes how it is distingushed from Egyptian Raqs Sharqi.

Artemis explains the slow and fast Romany 9/8 rhythms used in Turkish Oriental Dance, and the difference between the Romany 9/8 and the Cabaret Karsilama. she demonstrates how the rhythms are used in Turkish Oriental Dance.
She then teaches the Turkish Oriental technique of isolations, articulations, turns and steps typical to this dance, with complete breakdown and demonstration.

Artemis also teaches hand gestures unique to the Turkish Oriental Dance which are a direct inheritance from its Romany roots. These gestures include:
Knee and hip punches
Extenstion chord
One potato one potato
Body cuts
And more

In the last section, Artemis puts it all together in combinations you can use in your own Turkish Style dancing.