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Bellydance Fitness for Beginners Boxed Set
: :This boxed set contains four 30-minute exercise videos from professional belly dancers Veena and Neena Bidasha: Bellydance Fitness for Beginners: Hips, Buns, and Thighs: Most of this is a buttock and thigh workout starting with traditional leg lifts and lunges and leading to belly-dance-inspired moves like squeezing one buttock at a time or circling the hips. The fun begins later with 'hip drops' and 'hip lifts' with added leg and arm positions. Bellydance Fitness for Beginners: Arms & Abs: This video helps you tone arms and abs with isolations that use smooth, flowing ...
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Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
: :There are few voices in popular music like that of Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. Perry's is rich and earthy, whereas Gerrard's multi-octave instrument is, at times, downright unearthly. Toward the Within, the audiovisual version of a 1993 concert at Santa Monica's Mayfair Theatre--chosen, no doubt, for its excellent acoustics--is a fine showcase for their unique talents. Joined by five musicians on keyboards, strings, and percussion, Mark Magidson (Baraka) has filmed the proceedings in a straightforward manner, but the music is intricate and exotic enough that no special effects or ...
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Tango - The Geneva Grand Theatre Ballet
:Description:From its birth in the 1880s along the docks and in the slums of Buenos Aires, The tango reached its height of international popularity between the two World Wars. After a resurgence in the 1950s, newer dances pushed it into temporary obscurity. With the raging success of 'Tango Argentino' on Broadway in 1985, the tango is hot again. THE ORIGINS Its origins remain a mystery. The Myth brings together the immigrants from Europe, together with the men of the port (portenos) and the gauchos. These blended with the Andalusian tango and the Cuban ...
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Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy Part 1 - Carmen
:Description:From its birth in the 1880s along the docks and in the slums of Buenos Aires, The tango reached its height of international popularity between the two World Wars. After a resurgence in the 1950s, newer dances pushed it into temporary obscurity. With the raging success of 'Tango Argentino' on Broadway in 1985, the tango is hot again. THE ORIGINS Its origins remain a mystery. The Myth brings together the immigrants from Europe, together with the men of the port (portenos) and the gauchos. These blended with the Andalusian tango and the Cuban ...
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Miss Christy's Dance Class: Jazz
: :This tape is set up like one of teacher Christy Curtis's real jazz-dance classes for kids, but adult veterans of aerobics classes will recognize the warm-up exercises and floor work (including the dreaded crunches) and some of the steps, like the grapevine. Curtis is friendly and enthusiastic as she leads her eight students--six girls and two boys ranging from about 5 years old to early teens--through the moves. The 35-minute tape is helpfully repetitive and, unlike a real class, there's always the rewind button if needed. This video lesson would be particularly useful ...
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Tap Dancing: Beginners
: :This tape is set up like one of teacher Christy Curtis's real jazz-dance classes for kids, but adult veterans of aerobics classes will recognize the warm-up exercises and floor work (including the dreaded crunches) and some of the steps, like the grapevine. Curtis is friendly and enthusiastic as she leads her eight students--six girls and two boys ranging from about 5 years old to early teens--through the moves. The 35-minute tape is helpfully repetitive and, unlike a real class, there's always the rewind button if needed. This video lesson would be particularly useful ...
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Darrin's Dance Grooves
: :Want to learn how to dance like Britney and NSync? Then pick up Darrin's Dance Grooves! Like TaeBo, Darrin's Dance Grooves has created a new pop phenomenon! A dynamic young dancer, choreographer and star of Club MTV and Showtime's Soulfood TV series, Darrin Henson has choreographed videos for J-Lo, Britney Spears, NSync and Christina Aguilera and has won MTV Video Music Awards. :Learn some of the hottest dance moves you've seen in music videos, award shows, and concerts from the likes of Britney Spears, 'N Sync, and Jordan Knight from this 55-minute ...
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Ballet Workout
: :The title is somewhat a misnomer: this 83-minute video isn't a 'workout' so much as a ballet class. If you've taken ballet in the past--or if you've always wanted to--pull on your tights and leg warmers and enjoy this video. Melissa Lowe, a former soloist and principal dancer with several ballet companies, leads two levels of workout. Level 1 is for those with little or no ballet training; ballet experience is helpful for level 2. Each level has three segments: floor work (stretches to warm up the muscles), barre work (standing exercises and ...
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New York City Ballet Workout
: :Ballet can work magic on the mind and body as it imparts leanness and flexibility to muscles and limbs. :Do you envy ballet dancers their long, lean bodies and graceful, elegant movements? This beautifully produced exercise video was developed by Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet with the New York Sports Club. First you watch the rippling muscles of four gorgeous ballet dancers (two men and two women) performing warm-up moves to classical ballet music. Martins uses ballet terminology in his cuing and no technique is taught, so it's look-and-follow ...
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Funky Divas: Video
: :Ballet can work magic on the mind and body as it imparts leanness and flexibility to muscles and limbs. :Do you envy ballet dancers their long, lean bodies and graceful, elegant movements? This beautifully produced exercise video was developed by Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet with the New York Sports Club. First you watch the rippling muscles of four gorgeous ballet dancers (two men and two women) performing warm-up moves to classical ballet music. Martins uses ballet terminology in his cuing and no technique is taught, so it's look-and-follow ...
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