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Music CD - Tribal Fusion - Yoga Isolations & Drills for Bellydance
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Music CD: Tribal Fusion - Yoga Isolations & Drills for Bellydance
List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Ark 21
Starring: Rachel Brice
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0618685008596
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Ark 21
Manufacturer: Ark 21
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Ark 21
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-03-08
Running Time: 78
Studio: Ark 21
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Customer Rating:
Summary: More advertisment, less video.
Comment: First off I should say that I absolutely LOVED the video. I loved how it started off with the Yoga to stretch you out..and then works on the drills - which always gets me wanting to dance. I love the way it's got different workout times as well. But, my only problem with this video...On the back of the dvd case..it says 3/4 shimmy preparation and Maya and Taxim..and it didn't cover either one. It was no where on the dvd. I also didn't like the fact that they have locks on the down on the 30 minute workout and not on the 45...what gives? Did they not pay attention when they made the dvd? Either way..it's great for isolation drills...I've notice a HUGE difference in my dancing and it definitely helped me out. Great video! (Although I wish there was a little less yoga and more on the drills.
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Summary: Fusional fatigue
Comment: Try as I might, this 'bellydance video' is so heavy on the posing for yoga, I find myself bored and doing something else, anything else, way before the short production finishes.
Rather than a workout companion...this film is more likely a workout/practice hinderance. It is highly ineffective and uninspiring in its application to actually practicing.
I find it the absolute least engaging production in my library...and believe me... I have more than a few dance films! Some people are awesome dancers...some people are awesome teachers...but rarely is a person both. Brice is beautiful and graceful in her performances...but as a teacher, in this production she seemed cold, uninterested and just solely focused on herself. Teachers, in my humble opinion, must engage, consider and maintain an awareness of their students...as a student, I am not looking for a robot..
I found myself sorting laundry or reorganizing my bookshelves every time I have tried to watch and follow this video...I don't want to do yoga...I want to dance and bask in the wisdom and amazing skill in this teacher...If I had paid 5 or 500 usd for this tape...I would still feel cheated.
There is no heart or soul or genuine sense of sharing from the teacher ... it's just a 'look at me...buy my stuff...be my fan...go to my performances...join my groupies'....yeah...spend your money here...infomercial. insulting insulting! worse than an overzealous, unqualified teacher making a less than polished video...
this dvd lacks life. there is no vitality. it stinks...worse than any other I have ever seen.
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Summary: Rachel is insane
Comment: This woman is so incredibly buff you will be mesmerized just watching her stomach muscles move. Excellent instruction (maybe not for your very FIRST taste of bellydancing) but at least once you've learned some basic moves & language you can understand where these isolations fit in. Either way it is a slow and steady pace the entire time so even if you aren't too savvy you'll keep up and you will definitely feel it but you won't mind because you actually learn how to do these moves CORRECTLY and she makes CERTAIN to tell you exactly what muscles you should and should not be using. No instruction on things like shimmies or anything like that but it focuses strictly isolations like the title states. Amazing DVD I can't wait to get her arms dvd. Can I just say it again, RACHEL IS RIPPED!
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Summary: Rachel Brice exercise drills for bellydance
Comment: Another highly reccomended item from Rachel Brice. If you want detailed, concise and the most useful exercise program for bellydancing, THIS IS IT!
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Summary: tribal fusion
Comment: This video has good instructional lessons for beginning through advanced students practicing or learning bellydance.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The connection and interdependence between yoga and belly dance are explored in Tribal Fusion, a reasonably comprehensive and intense program drawing on both disciplines and demonstrated by the remarkable Rachel Brice. Practices of three different lengths (15, 30, and about 40 minutes) are offered; elements in the shorter practices are repeated and expanded on in the longer ones. The yoga portions include some basic sun salutations, lunges, backbends (specifically the locust pose), and such; the more extensive belly dancing exercises and undulations focus on the hips, the chest, and shoulders. Brice's instructions are efficient, if sometimes a bit on the brisk side (it's one thing to exhort students to practice ujjayi pranayama, the deep, audible nostril breathing style used in yoga; it's quite another to do so without even saying what it is, let alone showing how it's done). Whether or not any of the female users for which this DVD is intended will be able to replicate Brice's belly dancing moves is open to question, as her technique and amazingly toned body make things look easy when, in fact, mere mortals may find them baffling, to say the least. Moreover, although Carolena Nericcio, one of Brice's mentors and the "hostess" of this program, stresses that "the main attraction (of belly dancing) is delight," Brice doesn't seem to be having much fun, never so much as cracking a smile. Little matter. When you're this good, there's no need to kid around. --Sam Graham
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