Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners

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Actor: Blanca, Neon, Sarah Skinner
Brand: STRATOSTREAM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: StratoStream - World Dance New York

DVD Reviews of Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners

DVD Review: Complete and Inspiring But not for Beginners
Summary: 4 Stars

I don't consider this video a beginners video. The pace is fast and hard to follow. The costumes look like performance costumes and hide the feet and knees. I'd say this is an intermediate video. That's why I give this 4 stars. Anyone who has an idea of how to do basic bellydance moves before this video can have a great experience.

Luscious is packed with more moves than I've ever seen in any other bellydance video. I think that Drills Drills Drills and this video make up a great combination. The dancing is beautiful and the costumes and music do inspire.

Luscious has tutorial sections where the moves are explained and then shown in the context of the movie. You can practice every section after the corresponding tutorial or you can dance through the sections from the beginning.

The sections are called:
Circles where you learn pelvic circles, hip circles, chest circles, and one hip circles, aka Moroccan hip circles.

Infinity loops which goes through vertical figure eights, chest figure eights, horizontal figure eights, one hip figure eights, and mayas.

Undulations which practice side undulations, reverse undulations
Hip lifts and drops
Shimmys
Ans a section called body line
Then there is a short section at the end called the dance where you combine a few of the moves you learn in a fluid free feeling dance.

DVD Review: Fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars

A great workout, with 3 amazing dance teatchers. They offer the simplicity of movements, and the grace and sensualiy of real flesh mermaids. It made me want to be one of them!! The workout leaves me really exausted, but very happy with my results. Their explanations are very good and the global quality of this product is fantastic. Especialy the visual one! I'm glad I've spent my money on this item.

DVD Review: Terrific bargain!
Summary: 5 Stars

For the price, you get what amounts to a 'two-fer': an instructional video--sort of a short form of Neon's "instant bellydancer" series that lasts 50 minutes, and a 45 minute connected workout. The instructional section has Neon's typical focus on proper posture and alignment as well as her wonderful way of conceptualizing the moves. If you've never ever ever bellydanced before, this might require a few watchings to get the moves right, because she's a real stickler on form. It's that focus on form, though, that a) keeps you safe physically (no hyperextending or dangerous twisting) and b) works the deep muscles that show real control and grace. It's worth it to learn how to dance with proper form!

If you already know a bit about dance, jump right into the workout. There's plenty to keep even intermediate level dancers involved--incorporating arm movements, studying how they put together combinations, etc, so don't pass this one up as too basic. It's harder than the BellyTwins stuff! It may take you a time or two to get all the moves down yourself!

The production value, especially for bellydance videos, is high. The dancers are easy to see and well lit, you can see their knees and feet and what they're doing to create the movement. The music isn't too loud or too soft and there's no distracting background.

This video showcases a series of moves and puts them together in short combinations of anything from two to five moves. An advanced dancer could profit from this video studying how they put the combinations together--the interplay of soft and hard movements, upper and lower body movements, and transitions.

Bellydance has lately seemed to bifurcate into the camp that thinks dance should be hard and extreme and damaging on the body--if you're not doing aerial Turkish knee drops, you're a poseur--and the camp that thinks that bellydance is something all women of all ages should be able to do and do safely. Neon is in this latter camp, but her moves, though safe on the joints, are not simplistic. I've seen women struggle with the one-hip figure eight for a long time. So there's complexity here, but a complexity you can achieve with practice.

DVD Review: Luscious in everyway.
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

DVD Review: Good for beginners
Summary: 4 Stars

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.

Description of Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners

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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