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Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners
Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners
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List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(based on 24 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1032
Category: DVD

Actors: Neon, Blanca, Sarah Skinner
Publisher: StratoStream - World Dance New York
Studio: StratoStream - World Dance New York
Brand: STRATOSTREAM
Label: StratoStream - World Dance New York
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 100 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: 30165
UPC: 188883000567
EAN: 0188883000567
ASIN: B0015FJYV0

Release Date: May 27, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

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.




Customer Reviews:   Read 19 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Luscious in everyway.   October 6, 2008
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 any background. For thoes who have background, the section makes a great check and drill.

No matter your size, this workout really works out most of the target areas.




3 out of 5 stars This should get 3 1/2 stars   October 3, 2008
  0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This 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 workout looses another star for having a voice over that doesn't forecast the movements, only telling you what's happening as it's happening. I actually went through all my other dance workout tapes and checked, it's kind of standard to tell your students what to do before you jump in and do it.
This gets 3 & 1/2 stars rather than 2 because you can use the Demo section as its own workout to get comfortable with the moves and the dances are very beautiful.



4 out of 5 stars Good for beginners   September 29, 2008
I 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.


4 out of 5 stars Luscious Belly Dancing Instruction   September 19, 2008
  1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The 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.


5 out of 5 stars Neon for beginners. Woohoo!   September 19, 2008
  3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I love Neon's dance style: no shimmies, lots of complicated hip movement; fast and very fluid; nothing that would make a dancer feel socially awkward in a club. However, she's too fast for some people, on some of her other DVDs. (I was a professional Pilates instructor for five years--that doesn't mean I can dance.)

In this beautiful, inspiring series of bellydance moves (arms, circles, hips), the movements are done just slowly enough and repetitively enough that a beginner can do them the first or second time through.

The costuming is elaborate, detailed, and perfect for beginners to follow: there is enough of a reflective surface on the hips and chest so that you are able to see the movements really well. The hip belts have points on each side that make it a lot easier to see the hip movements. Even the skirts have slits so that when the dancers kick out a foot, you can see what the feet are doing.

I have a very short list of bellydance DVD's that are appropriate for true beginners: this is on that list, and it's one of the best; it's inspiring, beautifully shot, and easy to follow.


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