Search - The Essentials of Bellydance on DVD

A. Valentino

Carlos Valentino | Pennington, New Jersey United States | 05/12/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a very nice DVD, There are 2 DVD, the 1st. one called basics, is very relaxing and is fun to do. I did not gave it a 5 satrs because of the 2nd. Dvd. I like it until she start to used hand weights, this is not bellydance any more, you can move as freelly, and the choreography has to be easy, because of the weights. Next time she should do an intermediate routine without the weights, so it can be more elaborated and clean."

Playful Bellydance

Rebecca Johnson | Washington State | 02/01/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Anja makes bellydance especially playful and enjoyable to learn and she will teach you hip isolations, shimmies, the "camel," tummy rolls, floating dance steps, fast and slow bellydance dance sequences. The Egyptian traveling steps are fun and the dancing progresses from slow to fast with lots of instruction and excellent cueing.

The lighting, black sheet in front of the dancers, shadowy set (lighting seems strange) and the mesh thing Anja is wearing while dancing present a little distraction from the beauty of sensual bellydance, but this is still fun if you can overlook a few items that seem to be oversights during the production.

~The Rebecca Review"