Search - Discover Dance: Ballroom on DVD

Four Dances? You get three.

Justin E. Miller | Fort Drum, NY | 02/09/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"This DVD claims to teach you four dances: The waltz, foxtrot, social quickstep, and the tango. What they fail to mention however is that the instruction for the foxtrot and the social quickstep are exactly the same. The only difference between the two is the speed of the music playing in the background.

The dances are very thoroughly taught, until you get to the tango. The waltz, which is probably the second hardest dance to learn, takes the most time to learn with it taking up probably forty-five minutes of the DVDs total play time. The quickstep and foxtrot, both the easiest dance to learn, take up about a half-hour each, and the tango, the hardest to learn, they zoom through in about fifteen minutes, as if they were afraid of running out of time on the dvd. The video is relatively low quality, and after a time, the voices of the instructors tend to get on your nerves.

Pick this one up if you want to learn the basic steps, but that's about all you're going to get, and remember that it's three dances, not four. Once you've learned the foxtrot, you know the social quickstep."

Don't know left foot from right

C. Fox | 03/29/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Disappointing! Very boring presentation. Instructors mix up their left from their right so what you see on the DVD isn't what they are saying. Two of the dances -- Fox Trot and Quickstep -- are identical."

Packaging mismatch

Davina Hunter | Bay Area CA | 05/03/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I agree with the other reviewers regarding the less than ideal elements in this instructional material.

I find it more than frustrating to discover the product I just purchased, with this beautiful, elegant, graceful dancing couple on the outside box is not what it seems!

The actual dancer/teachers present a stark contrast to the image on the media package cover. Check it out from the library first, prior to buying...see for yourself!

This is yet another dust collector on my dance media shelf!

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