|
|
List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: STRATOSTREAM EAN: 0188883000567 Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: StratoStream - World Dance New York Languages: Manufacturer: StratoStream - World Dance New York MPN: 30165 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: StratoStream - World Dance New York Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 27, 2008 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: StratoStream - World Dance New York Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Editorial Review: Product Description: Lavish and overflowing with deep, rich, feminine movement, Luscious: The Bellydance Workout is made of 100% of bellydance moves and steps It is gentle, but it will work your body to enhance your muscle tone, flexibility, and fluidity, and promote weight loss. With a special focus on muscle conditioning and elongation, the program works each group of muscles deeply - using carefully built combinations to switch between muscle groups and add intensity to the workout. Luscious: The Bellydance Workout features gorgeous music and a beautiful flow undiluted by conventional exercises. Systematically addressing each group of muscles to deliver a total body workout, it creates an entertaining and aesthetically fulfilling dance experience inspiring you to do your best in executing each move with the proper depth, range of motion, and articulation. A true dance experience as much as a fitness experience, Luscious is beginner level, but it offers you a perspective of challenge and growth. The workout consists of 7 sections, each building consistently upon the dance vocabulary covered in the previous sections through its own series of combinations. The combinations include classic bellydance transitions between steps to help you create the muscle memory to ingrain dance in your body. Luscious is an instructional workout. It introduces the dance vocabulary in a careful, systematic way and contains an extensive tutorial section breaking down each move used in the workout. If this is one of your first steps in bellydance, this program will be a fun introduction to all the basic groups of bellydance moves and transitions. If you are a dancer, it s a great way to practice the core of the bellydance technique and vocabulary through functional drills performed in the context of dance combinations and transitions creating an extra layer of muscle memory that isolated drills do not provide. Workout duration - 45 min. Tutorial section - 50 min. The Circles section explores circular bellydance moves. It follows a slow-to-moderate tempo, working both the lower and upper body through isolations. Next is the Infinity Loops section. Together with the stretching and toning impact of every move in this section, infinity loops are the ultimate exercise in fluidity. Undulations maintain flexibiilty of your spine and help develop deep awareness of your core. They are also a challenging full-body muscle-conditioning exercise. The bellydance hipwork section exercises your thighs, glutes, and abdominal muscles. In the Hip Accents section we ll perform traditional bellydance hip moves and then weave them together with the fluid movements: circles, infinity loops and undulations. Hipwork is what gives bellydance such vibrancy and party appeal - these steps look great on any dance floor. The Shimmy - that effortless shaking of the hips - is actually hard work! Join us to shake your way through a few styles of shimmy, and enjoy the wide range of shimmy flavors. The Body Line section is built of moves involving your total body. It shifts focus from working individual body parts to dance steps that offer the most stretching and give you a dancerly posture and carriage. The last section is a short dance routine choreographed entirely of the bellydance moves featured in the workout. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Terrific bargain! For the price, you get what amounts to a 'two-fer': an instructional video--sort of a short form of Neon's "instant bellydancer" series that lasts 50 minutes, and a 45 minute connected workout. The instructional section has Neon's typical focus on proper posture and alignment as well as her wonderful way of conceptualizing the moves. If you've never ever ever bellydanced before, this might require a few watchings to get the moves right, because she's a real stickler on form. It's that focus on ... Read More Rating: - Luscious in everyway.I think Luscious is a wonderful work out for beginners. I am pushing into my one year in belly dancing, and i found this video informative, creative and simply divine. the music is perfect for each section. I never got bored with this workout because of how each dancer lead the section and the different costumes. My arms and thighs alone burned with satisfaction. I also found Neon's instruction in the 'step-by-step' section very helpful. This section is great for thoes who do not have ... Read More Rating:  - This should get 3 1/2 starsThis video is NOT for beginners to belly dance. I've been dabbling in belly dance for years and found this DVD annoying. No professional teacher wears all that junk when instructing people. Why? Because the costumes are meant to hide the mechanics of the dance moves, creating the mysterious fluidity that makes belly dance so visually appealing. Even in the demo section, the teacher is wearing her costume. She even mentions the subtlety of the move that is completely hidden by her loose pants. The ... Read More Rating:  - Good for beginnersI found this video easy to follow, it explained each dance move very well and gave ample illustration; starting with slow repetitions, speeding up to fast ones. The costumes were gorgeous and the music was good too. Rating: - Luscious Belly Dancing InstructionThe dancing is a lot of fun. The only thing I don't like is that you can not see the positioning of the feet during the dances. Other than that, I have been "shimmying" away. |
