Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Parade Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303334385
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,808 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

This video offers an alternative way to get fit and stay that way, plus have fun while doing it! Belly dancing is a dance of control. Belly Dancing for Fun & Fitness will tone muscles, improve posture, increase stamina, and help develop coordination, flexibility, and grace. The step-by-step teaching method in this video makes belly dancing easy to learn. Add a little mystery, intrigue, and romance to your relationship. Learn how to control your muscles, for a better figure and a better you! More importantly, gain confidence and feel good about yourself!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on this one!, March 24, 1998

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Eris ([e-mail]) (Cotati, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Belly Dancing For Fun and Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video would be laughable, except that in many libraries, etc. it is the *only* bellydance video available; it does NOT represent this dance form well! Rabbitt is well-intentioned, but is only a mediocre dancer and much of her history is inaccurate.

In a recent conversation on videos on med-dance (an email discussion group composed of Middle Eastern dancers, musicians, and aficionados), this one ranked at the bottom. I would have given it a ranking of "1" except that at least it has decent production values and she's not wearing a stripper-esque costume. END

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst I've ever seen, January 5, 2000

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Shantell Powell "The ShanMonster" (Kitchener, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belly Dancing For Fun and Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was the first belly dance instructional video I ever bought. When I popped it into the VCR, I was excited. I soon became disillusioned.

If this is the only exposure anyone ever gets of the dance, s/he will be disillusioned. Between Eddie's sickening ain't-she-purty speech and Janine's horrible "dancing" (flailing/hopping) there is little of educational value which can be gleaned from this horrid tape.

Nevertheless, the video is entertaining in a B-movie kinda way. Janine hopping and twirling the hankies made me burst into laughter despite myself.

The only thing this tape can teach is how NOT to dance.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars IT WAS SO IDIOTIC I DIDN'T EVEN LAUGH, May 19, 2000

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SUBNANI (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Belly Dancing For Fun and Fitness [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am Arabic and I brought this tape to have a routine (keeping in mind i already know how to belly dance from family in the middle east ) when I watched the tape it was not even right she had it all wrong and she stunk at it . If you are considering buying this tape DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY .