Created by Neon, New York City-based star of classic belly dance and dance fitness guru,Piece of Cake - The Bellydance Workout for Beginnersis a 1-hour-and-20-minute dance fitness and instruction experience that will refresh your body and mind with graceful, evocative, sensual movement, and wash away fatigue and anxiety. It will help tone your lower body and your arms and give you that lifted, confident carriage.Neon believes that, as a form of fitness, dance should retain its artistic and evocative nature and rich continuous texture. She created her dance fitness formatfocusing on dance combinations as a unit, never 'drilling' moves out of the context. Each combination - even if it is only 3-4 steps - is a mini-poem... a story... a toy to play with.Piece of Cakeuses anabsolute-beginner-level dance vocabularyand allows for more repetitions and recurring dance motifs than Neon's other workouts. Neon guides you withcues and technique remindersevery step of the program, her combinations arebuilt step by stepstarting slow and then increasing the tempo, and the dance routines are easy to follow, even if you don t have dance experience.There are7 segmentsin thePiece of Cake workoutfocusing onbelly dance hipwork, shimmy, and upper body accents. These sections are very feminine, flirty and feel like dancing at a party. They alternate with sequences of graceful fluid poses of an evocative, mysterious flair. The pose sequences allow you to stretch, relax into the music and savor the meanings and moods of the dance flow.The last segment of the workout is madeentirely of poses, fluid transitions, gestures and other elements of expressive dance body languagefeatured in the workout. ­ It's a cooldown with a hypnotic flow that feels like a personal ritual.There is also aTutorial section, where the dance steps from the workout are explained and broken down in detail, including all the building blocks of the arm patterns, gestures and dance poses.Even though thePiece of Cake workoutis designed for beginners, it is great for dancers of all levels as daily or weekly dance practice for muscle conditioning and to increase fluidity and range of motion in hipwork.So... enjoy this delicious piece of cake, it's yours!