2006-09-27 08:07:54 · 12 answers · asked by Belinda B 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Shakira is well-known for her dancing in various music videos. The moves are based on the art of belly dancing, a part of her Lebanese heritage, which Shakira says she learned as a young teen to overcome her shyness [5]. The intense training has afforded her a fluidity in her body movement most seen in the video to her hit "La Tortura". In an MTV interview, she said people told her she never moved her chest when dancing, so she danced with her chest (as well as her usual belly dancing moves) in the videos for "La Tortura" and "Hips Don't Lie".
She has had several belly dance choreographers, including award-winning Bellydance Superstar Bozenka . As her MTV 'The Making of...' special entales, she worked with Jamie King for the choreography, but ended up creating most of it herself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira
2006-09-27 08:19:45 · answer #1 · answered by taylor a 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Shakira's dad took her to a Middle Eastern restaurant in her hometown of Barranquilla in Colombia, and when she heard the Arabic drum and saw the bellydancers, the music really affected her and made her want to learn how to dance. Her grandmother taught her how to bellydance in order to keep her connected with her roots, and Shakira says that learning to dance helped her overcome shyness.
And she DID NOT remove her rib so she could move better or any crap like that. Actually... that was Thalia who removed her two bottom ribs so she'd look thinner.
2006-09-28 22:02:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She had a natural ability for it ever since she was a little tiny girl. She has NOT had ribs removed. And to the person who said she is Mexican... she is Colombian and Lebanese.
2006-09-29 00:33:00 · answer #3 · answered by Heidi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One day when she was 5 she bellydanced for her whole school and she said " I figured If the nuns dont care im showing my belly who would?"
2006-09-27 15:39:12 · answer #4 · answered by heyitspreeti 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
apparently she removed one rib to be able to shake the way she does. She done belly dancing when she was young.
2006-09-27 15:15:12 · answer #5 · answered by Blair Waldorf 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She probably started when she was young in Colombia.
2006-09-27 15:15:41 · answer #6 · answered by Lisa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1st: stood up
2nd: swing hips side to side
3rd: moved her arms
4th: who give a rats @ss!!
2006-09-27 15:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by soul.searcher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
she just said i never knew i could shake my hips like this one day
2006-09-27 15:10:08 · answer #8 · answered by tanner s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
she thought there was an earthquake and wanted to imitate it
2006-09-27 15:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
one day at school she just started shakin' that thang..... haha. just kidding. who knows??
2006-09-27 15:09:48 · answer #10 · answered by beckray 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋