How to do the Berber shimmy
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Very few belly dancers know Berber dance moves and for a reason. Berber dance style and Berbers are concentrated mostly in North Africa but their folkloric moves have influenced belly dancing in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco more than anywhere else of course.
One of the moves that Berbers use a lot when they belly dance is a half circle forward ending with a shimmy. We call that in North Africa the Berber shimmy