Product: Bellydance: Magical Motion [VHS] (1985)
Rating: 2.0
Scary
This video is fairly scary, especially if it is your introduction to bellydance. I went on a shopping binge and bought 6 bellydance videos and this was the most dissapointing. The ad boast all the costume changes, but since this was filmed in the '80's, we are talking Jane Fonda meets Pat Benetar with Green eyeshadow. The video covers alot of ground, but the flow is all wrong if you want to learn to bellydance. The warm-up is 3 bellydancers stretching freestyle, with no instruction whatsoever, with a voice over stating that you should warm-up. The different instructions(about 5 minutes) are followed by a performance( about 5 minutes) that breaks the flow of a workout, or simply trying to learn something. The performances are not a guided routine or combining the moves you just learned, but a performance. In the veil section, she doesn't even break down the moves, but has different dancers doing demonstrations. I would have given it only one star, but the opening is a history of bellydance that is quite interesting. The video comes off as an overview of bellydance more than an instructional video. My favorites of the videos I bought were The Sensual Workout and The Goddess Workout.