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Originally Posted by jencUK
what's a body wave? Is it an extreme camel/undulation?
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A body wave is the opposite of a camel/undulation.
What I'm about to say is a simplification...
A body wave starts at the bottom (hips) and rolls to the top (chest). An undulation starts at the top (chest) and rolls to the bottom (hips).
Both body waves and undulations involve movement of both the hips and the rib cage. In both moves, the rib cage moves like a Ferris wheel. Both involve fluid movement of the spine.
For simplicity's sake I'll describe just the rib cage only, because realizing what the rib cage was doing provided me the big "Aha!" moment back when I was a student. In the case of the body wave, the rib cage motion is back, up, forward, return. In the case of the undulation, the rib cage motion is forward, up, back, return.
Neon gives a good description of the body wave on one of her Instant Bellydancer DVD's. I forget which ones, but my reviews list which moves each video teaches, so a quick glance at the moves section of my reviews of Neon's videos should help find it fairly quickly.