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Instructor's name: Neon, Elisheva, Sarah Skinner
Type of Workout: Aerobics Fitness Level: Intermediate Equipment Needed: None Total Running Time: 130 Minutes Release Date: 2010
Region: 0 (Worldwide) | Cocktail
- The Classic Cabaret Bellydance Workout is a dance-based fitness
program created by the New-York-based star bellydance performer and
instructor Tanna Valentine. It features 100% bellydance movement and
authentic bellydance performance music.
If you are new to
bellydance, the 60-minute Tutorial section explains the moves in detail
and demonstrates every bellydance step used in the program. You can
practice by following Tanna in the Beginner Practice Flow. While in the
workout section bellydance moves are arranged in full-fledged dance
combinations, the Practice Flow allows you to work on each step
individually through a series of simple repetitions to music.
The
30-minute Cocktail workout section is presented by by Tanna and her
fellow NYC dancers Giselle and Yoshina. It is designed as both a
fitness and an educational experience where you will sample and
practice the classic bellydance moves and combinations of cabaret
bellydance while working to improve your muscle tone and flexibility,
and adding variety to your weight loss or weight maintenance regimen.
The
workout structure follows the layout of a typical cabaret bellydance
show: An uptempo opening, a moderate-paced lyrical section, a dynamic
party-style dance, an expressive and sultry slow cifte-telli, an upbeat
sparkling drum solo, and a brief finale. This cycle is repeated twice
in the course of the workout to two different soundtracks of classic
bellydance music, with the second cycle offering an extra segment
featuring the rhythm and steps of Turkish karsilama.
This
organic structure of the American Cabaret bellydance show, alternating
higher and lower intensity sections, mirrors the interval method of
fitness training and makes a great dance-based workout with a focus on
muscle conditioning and toning. The variety of dance steps challenges
your body to quickly switch between muscle groups and results in an
effective and fun fitness experience.
"Making time in your
life for planned physical fitness is not a luxury, it is an absolute
necessity," says Tanna Valentine, "While many women lead busy lives and
are not always motivated to go to the gym, dance-based fitness is
highly-motivating because it is more than sweating and burning
calories. Along with fitness benefits it provides a vehicle for
artistic expression, and also has a strong emotional and spiritual
component that brings a release from stress and physical apathy through
inspiration and a burst of creative energy. You have to make time for
this in your daily life."
Whether you are looking to improve your physical conditioning and
enhance your shape, or to learn and practice a wide range of classic
cabaret bellydance combinations in preparation for performing on stage
or at a night life venue, Tanna's Cocktail workout will support and
entertain you on your way toward these goals.
The Cocktail workout offers 2 soundtrack options: with voice cues and with music only.
The Cocktail Bellydance Workout video also features a number of performances by Tanna Valentine, Giselle and Yoshina.
Do you already own World Dance New York's "Luscious," "Love Potion" or "Hard Candy" bellydance workouts, and are you wondering 'what's different' about Cocktail? The answer is that you will find the steps -- and the spirit -- here are more 'old-fashioned' bellydance. This is bellydance with a vintage twist: '60s and '70s "classic" movement....the core vocabulary of that era...still emulated
every day in clubs and restaurants around the world. Anywhere you see
bellydancers in a traditional setting, you see this kind of
performance....to this kind of music.
The structure also emulates the
6-part bellydance show: Entrance, slow dance, fast dance, chiftetelli,
drum solo, karsilama, and exit. Throughout the workout this structure
is present and presents two whole times, each time with a different
movement vocabulary. So running Cocktail:
The Classic Cabaret Bellydance Workout is like doing a real restaurant
bellydance show. Understanding this classic show structure, which is
used worldwide, is absolutely indispensable awareness for any dancer
who is planning to perform as a professional bellydance entertainer --
so making it your workout, it will become 'part of you', even aid you
in developing both rhythmic and mood improvisations within the context
of the classic show structure.
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