How to Do a Veil Switch | Belly Dance

Watch more How to Belly Dance videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/509992-How-to-Sway-with-a-Veil-Belly-DanceLearn how to do the veil switch move in this Howcast belly dance video featuring Irina Akulenko.So now let's try doing a Veil Switch.This move is also known as Around the World. So, you might hear it by bothnames. And in beginning, just want to prep by holding the veil in-betweenyour right hand and left hand, obviously, draping the veil around the indexfinger, or scissoring it between the middle the finger and the indexfinger. S,o it depends on how you hold it, it ends up being pretty much thesame thing.So you want to make sure that the veil is tight enough where you could liftit, and it could be pretty much in line with your shoulders. But also looseenough that there's a lot of fabric on each side.So usually we work with about three yards of fabric, two and a half, threeyards.And in terms of length, it should be at least from the waist to the floor,that's how long you want it to be, how wide you want it to be.So we're going to start with the veil in front of us. And we're going tobring the right hand, keeping the left hand still, bring the right hand allthe way around, so we end with the veil behind us.And then keeping the right hand still, bring the left around us, back andforward.In the beginning you might want to just think about tracing the outline ofyour body, going past the arm, and then shoulder, the other arm. When yougo a little bit faster, you actually want to avoid touching your body, soit floats around you.And the hand will start to move, so you will not necessarily just hold thehand there completely still. You might do that if you're going very slow,but when you go faster the hands will help, and they will move. Andobviously you can go in both directions.And normally we will actually start with the veil behind us, so let's trythat coming from the back. So it's behind us, right hand around, and back.One full circle. Forward and back.And we can also add a big hip circle. So as we come around, we're going topush the right hip back, left, and forward.So let's try a combination. We're going to do one circle upright, and onewith a big hip circle.Let's try it with music.