Thread: The Hip Swerve (Hossam Ramzy) ???

Originally Posted by ssipes

Whatever the "hip swerve" is, Hossam refers to it as something like "the one move all baladi women know".

To me this suggests that it is not a jewel move, or horizontal figure 8's, or a traveling hip twist, but something more fundamental to the dance, like the big baladi style hip drop.

Yes -- we got off topic on the Jewel. The Hip Swerve, according to the notes in Visual Melodies, is exactly how Lauren described it earlier. If you have the Visual Melodies dvd, it's the first step she does on the 3rd choreography.