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Shakira is well known for her dancing in various music videos and in concert. Shakira’s moves are based on the art of Arabic belly dancing, a part of her Lebanese heritage her father has a Lebanese background but was raised in
Shakira says she learned this form of dance as a young teen to overcome her shyness. Shakira also mentioned in a MTV interview that she learned how to belly dance by trying to flip a coin with her belly. The intense training has afforded her a fluidity in her body movement most seen in the videos to her hits "Ojos Así", "La Tortura", "Hips Don't Lie" and "Beautiful Liar" including "Suerte". Shakira has had several belly dance choreographers, including award-winning Bellydance Superstar Boženka. As the MTV Making the Video for "La Tortura" reveals, she worked with Jamie King on the choreography, but ended up creating most of it herself.
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