Well, I don’t know of too many DVDs where belly work is broken down. Sure, many dancers (Sadie, Princess Farhana, Delilah and others) put in some pointers on stomach work. But remember Johanna ‘Xenobia’ Krynytzky? The one who had all those folkloric steps on ExpertVillage? Well, she has a series out on belly work. She [...]
Blanca’s visit here is nearly over. I miss her already. She so turns out to be what I imagined. Fun to be with, beautiful, spontaneous and wholehearted in her enjoyment of things, sensitive, sweet - and a powerful dancer even when not doing a whole performance. Even when she’s showing me a move or [...]
Look at her go! That pretty Christabel Zamor with her wonderful figure! She looks so sexy and joyous with that hoop!
Hooping looks so much fun and so liberating! Christabel says 80 year old women have been able to do it. Oh well. So anyway, I got myself two hoops and tried it out. I couldn’t [...]
Even as someone learning to belly dance, I was never prepared for the level of detail Ava Fleming goes into on this instructional video. Take the posture section, for instance. She spends a whole ten minutes explaining every bit of the posture you should be in. she gives you reasons, shows you errors, and [...]
I have admired Blanca and her beautiful dancing for so long. I would never have imaged though, that I’d actually get to meet her. I imagined even less that I would actually meet her right here in India. And I imagined least of all that I’d meet her here in my own dance room! But [...]
Frankly, I’m incredulous at how Sadie has managed to come out with a third video (this year) so unique and so packed with powerful content. This time, she pairs up with Kaya, her long time associate, to teach their most popular workshop on disk. And may I say, first of all, that the teaching [...]
I always feel super excited when I hold the box of a brand new belly dance DVD in my hands. But perhaps never quite as excited as when I was 3 seconds away from opening the wrapping of Nadira Jamal’s video, Improvisation Toolkit. Not only am I delighted to see a member of [...]
Here’s more of the lovely Jenna dancing to what I think of as a difficult song. I never know what to do with a long taqsim section in the beginning (I’m talking about alone in my dance room, of course, not some stage performance ) and I wouldn’t know what to do with strong [...]
Gosh, has it become difficult to evaluate new basics videos or what! There was a confusing number of them when I started dancing, and now there are so many more - and good ones at that. Oh hey, one or two of Michelle’s own videos compete with this one.
While you can’t review a basics [...]
Somewhere along the line, I got a bee in the bonnet about sensuality. Actually, soon after I began belly dancing I went on a big hunt for videos that taught “slow moves”. The sensuality bug was reinforced when I happened to see a video clip of Blanca.
There are many words that come to mind [...]