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Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners | 
 enlarge | Actors: Neon, Blanca, Sarah Skinner
Studio: StratoStream - World Dance New York
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1826
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 30165
UPC: 188883000567
EAN: 0188883000567
ASIN: B0015FJYV0
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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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.
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beautiful flowing bellydance September 1, 2008
K. Page
I've been taking bellydance classes for over a year and have over 20 bellydance DVD's. I love this DVD and it's become one of my favorites. This is great for people who have taken some bellydance classes and want to be able to put moves together in a flowing fashion without the choppiness of trying to learn a choreography. It's exactly what I've been looking for and I like that there are transitions and combinations I haven't seen before. This is perfect for someone who just wants to dance, not drill moves, not learn a specific choreography and is looking for some new ways of putting moves together. The moves they use are beautiful and make you feel beautiful and serene while you practice them. I think it will add grace and elegance to your dance. I tend to like the World Dance bellydance DVD's and I hope they make some sequels to Luscious. I strongly reccomend this DVD.
Love it August 22, 2008
Ryky (Australia)
Plenty of other reviews here - but I just want to join the chorus. I'm not really a beginner but it's a great easy workout for a saturday morning. Lovely to watch, with costumes and staging. I like the onscreen directions, I like the option to play without voice-over, I like the breakdown section, I like that they swap over, I like that it moves at the right pace for me when I'm tired and stiff. The only small quibble is with Neon who can't seem to isolate her hips when shimmy'ing in some of the sections - but she doesn't lead those parts and she is beautiful to watch nevertheless. I think I would have to buy Blanca's sensual bellydance after watching her here, I think she is fantastic. Definitely worth the small price, which is only the cost of a lesson in any case! I would a love a series of 30-40min workouts like this.
Luscious, The Bellydance Workout for Beginners August 17, 2008
Madame E (Bethel, CT)
As a former aerobics instructor, the timing is right, the contents are right and it is fun. Instructive and a good workout.
Beautifully done August 11, 2008
J. Seguine (KS)
This is the best video I've ever had. Having had 2 years of belly dance instruction, I wasn't expecting to learn any new moves, but I learned several! This being the case, I wouldn't recommend it for absolute beginners, but is great for someone with some level of experience.
The instructors execute each move exquisitely, showing their expertise and beauty. They are simply inspiring. Using combinations instead of drills, this feels more like a class and less like a workout. It is just so much fun. I have never looked forward to putting a workout video in until I got this one; I enjoy every minute of it.
Fabulucious!!! August 11, 2008
Natasha (Chicago, IL USA)
Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners is absolutely fabulous. I do not catch on to dance combinations very well at all but after a couple of times, I was able to anticipate the moves. It's also fun to just get into the moves "without watching" the instructors.
I love it because it combines learning a new workout while also learning about an ephemeral art (dancing). The only drawback is that the workout is 45 minutes and I would prefer 20 minute "mini workouts" but that can be remedied nicely by simply stopping the DVD after 20 minutes because you learn a series of movements a la workshop.
I highly recommend it if you want something different for a routine.
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