Comments on: Working with Beautiful Technique – 2 http://malabhargava.com/belly-dance/working-with-beautiful-technique-2.html All I'm obsessed with Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:19:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BD addict http://malabhargava.com/belly-dance/working-with-beautiful-technique-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5961 BD addict Tue, 26 May 2009 11:33:54 +0000 http://malabhargava.com/?p=1117#comment-5961 This DVD is just full of so much to learn...I feel like I have to just sit down and watch it before I do anything with it...its sooo jam packed. I tend to ignore breathing instructions too until I can do the move on its own, and then add the other bits in. This DVD is just full of so much to learn…I feel like I have to just sit down and watch it before I do anything with it…its sooo jam packed.

I tend to ignore breathing instructions too until I can do the move on its own, and then add the other bits in.

]]> By: Mala http://malabhargava.com/belly-dance/working-with-beautiful-technique-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5944 Mala Mon, 18 May 2009 14:18:21 +0000 http://malabhargava.com/?p=1117#comment-5944 I mostly ignore the breathing instructions and decide I'll handle that part later - after I get the movement path. But the instructions just come too rapidly for me. Actually it must be worse for me because I look once, take it in, and then move away to try it out with her vocal cues and looking in the mirror. The problem is also that I use my laptop, not a big huge TV. So with my eyesight, I can't really look-and-follow with that screen. My DVD player's remote is a bit deadlike so I'm not playing the video on the TV attached to the DVD player. Oh... very complicated! How do you guys process those fast instructions? Float up pull in inhale push down, pull down, pull up.... I believe the choreography was a bit of an add-on or bonus. I vaguely remember someone saying that. So, it wasn't fully taught. I think it would have been good to at least break it into segments - I know I'd manage it fine that way. Now one has to pause and return to the specific points to learn it. It also looks more like the practice choreography the DVD says it is - not a full-fledged performable one. At least I thought so. I think it would have been a bit more animated if it had been outright performable. But it's nice, nevertheless. I don't know how i'm going to break it up to learn it. :-) Oh yes, Autumn is quite luminous when she starts performing. When I first saw her in those youtube clips of Rose of Damascus and the other one with the red ball... I was totally captivated with her "presence". Very alive and vibrant and crackling with vitality! Including her expressions. It's interesting how people come across differently on camera. Some are super comfortable and some are get-on-with-it. One person who looks completely relaxed and comfortable and animated seems to be Ranya! She's enjoying herself. I mostly ignore the breathing instructions and decide I’ll handle that part later – after I get the movement path. But the instructions just come too rapidly for me. Actually it must be worse for me because I look once, take it in, and then move away to try it out with her vocal cues and looking in the mirror. The problem is also that I use my laptop, not a big huge TV. So with my eyesight, I can’t really look-and-follow with that screen. My DVD player’s remote is a bit deadlike so I’m not playing the video on the TV attached to the DVD player. Oh… very complicated!

How do you guys process those fast instructions? Float up pull in inhale push down, pull down, pull up….

I believe the choreography was a bit of an add-on or bonus. I vaguely remember someone saying that. So, it wasn’t fully taught. I think it would have been good to at least break it into segments – I know I’d manage it fine that way. Now one has to pause and return to the specific points to learn it. It also looks more like the practice choreography the DVD says it is – not a full-fledged performable one. At least I thought so. I think it would have been a bit more animated if it had been outright performable. But it’s nice, nevertheless. I don’t know how i’m going to break it up to learn it. :-)

Oh yes, Autumn is quite luminous when she starts performing. When I first saw her in those youtube clips of Rose of Damascus and the other one with the red ball… I was totally captivated with her “presence”. Very alive and vibrant and crackling with vitality! Including her expressions.

It’s interesting how people come across differently on camera. Some are super comfortable and some are get-on-with-it. One person who looks completely relaxed and comfortable and animated seems to be Ranya! She’s enjoying herself.

]]> By: Ruth http://malabhargava.com/belly-dance/working-with-beautiful-technique-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5943 Ruth Mon, 18 May 2009 08:17:26 +0000 http://malabhargava.com/?p=1117#comment-5943 I love the arms section, I struggled at first to 'breathe along', now I don't struggle to stick rigidly to her breathing instructions I find that I mostly get it right anyway. I'm a little disappointed by the choreography, for me it is not really in a learnable format. I think it is a great example of how she puts her moves together, and how they go with the music, but I would call it a performance with explanation rather than a taught choreography. The drills and technique section are infinitely more valuable in my opinion, so the dvd is more than worth it for these. I find it interesting that when Autumn is explaining technique her face is without much expression, yet when she dances her face is so animated, it really comes to life! She looks far more relaxed when she dances than she speaks to the camera. I love the arms section, I struggled at first to ‘breathe along’, now I don’t struggle to stick rigidly to her breathing instructions I find that I mostly get it right anyway.
I’m a little disappointed by the choreography, for me it is not really in a learnable format. I think it is a great example of how she puts her moves together, and how they go with the music, but I would call it a performance with explanation rather than a taught choreography.
The drills and technique section are infinitely more valuable in my opinion, so the dvd is more than worth it for these.

I find it interesting that when Autumn is explaining technique her face is without much expression, yet when she dances her face is so animated, it really comes to life! She looks far more relaxed when she dances than she speaks to the camera.

]]> By: Tami http://malabhargava.com/belly-dance/working-with-beautiful-technique-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5942 Tami Sun, 17 May 2009 23:07:51 +0000 http://malabhargava.com/?p=1117#comment-5942 I know exactly what you mean by the arms section. I found myself laughing at the picture I must have made following along. I probably liked like I was hyperventilating trying to breathe as directed while doing the arm patterns. Where I felt it natural to breathe out she said breathe in and vice versa. Rather comical when I do it. :) I don't know if this will make it into my own personal style, but I will continue to work with it. :) I know exactly what you mean by the arms section. I found myself laughing at the picture I must have made following along. I probably liked like I was hyperventilating trying to breathe as directed while doing the arm patterns. Where I felt it natural to breathe out she said breathe in and vice versa. Rather comical when I do it. :) I don’t know if this will make it into my own personal style, but I will continue to work with it. :)

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