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Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Mala

Mala — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:33:25 +0000

And mine are graceful, Helen, but they don’t know what to do with themselves. Ha.

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Helen

Helen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:46:57 +0000

Mala, because my arms are graceless. I want to follow her pattern, move my feet, and attempt grace. Too many things at once. Voice over would have been great. A static run through would have allowed me to repeat, repeat, repeat. Having all those other things in the mix frustrates me. I’ll have to memorize it for grace. Once I get it down–with grace, then I have no problem winging it or changing up.

Comment on Quick guide to beginners’ belly dance videos by Mala

Mala — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:20:15 +0000

Aw, thank you! Now that you’ve got me started off, i’ll be adding to this section until I have a nice big fat guide ready.

Comment on Quick guide to beginners’ belly dance videos by fancypants

fancypants — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:01:49 +0000

thank you mala for your great reviews! Hugs and Kisses from Germany,

Silvia

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Mala

Mala — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:37:13 +0000

Dina, thanks for the info on more Aziza videos. A choreography would be fun!

Helen, why are you putting working with the DVD on hold? Working with the first combo, I found it quite easy after all because the combinations really aren’t very long. The first one involves this grapevine and a step back and pivot. Then a step forward and back and a maya or two. That’s it.

So the thing to do is watch her through the repetitions and see the slightly different things she does with her arms each time. Sometimes she’ll use a arms up and push down with the pivot and at other times she’ll use that for the the maya. She takes a bunch of things and shuffles them around. And it’s a great idea to do the foot pattern a few times with no arms.

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Helen

Helen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:32:44 +0000

I was a little surprised in that gap in her instruction since she is…Aziza.

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Helen

Helen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:30:15 +0000

I agree with you Nadira. That’s why I put working with the dvd on hold. I’ll have to memorize the darn thing to work with it. It would be REALLY NICE if you and Michelle teamed up to do that arm dvd we all envisioned and asked for on yahoo.

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Dina

Dina — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:43:57 +0000

I heard she will have 2 more this year. At least they’re in the making – something like Practice companion 2 and still another one. choreography for HMC? I forgot.

beautiful review Mala!!
I will start working with dvds more after this Friday (something important will be decided on Friday – am working up to it and dancing little these days for sitting in front of the computer all day).

Comment on Quick guide to beginners’ belly dance videos by Mala

Mala — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:20:50 +0000

There are actually several more halves to come! I must get to this. Perhaps I’ll plug in a few more before doing any more reviews this time. Thanks for reminding me.

Comment on Aziza: Hands, Arms and Poses by Mala

Mala — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:47:07 +0000

Yes, I’m most surprised that she didn’t call out the arm moves specially as she makes little changes to them through the footwork patterns.

I’m excited to see what I get out of it as I continue working with it.

Aziza should have more videos out, for sure.