Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Nancy Hays Entertainment,Inc
• VHS Release Date: March 23, 1998
• Run Time: 40 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304943857
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,421 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The tango and waltz are two of the most romantic ballroom dances, always popular, especially for weddings. Nancy Hays and Greg Gale show you how to hold your own on the dance floor, even if you've never danced before. For each dance, you learn the basic step, plus enough additional moves to look good on the dance floor. Gale is a competent instructor, teaching slowly, systematically, and seriously. The camera shoots close-ups of the footwork most of the time, so you can follow easily. Hays, Gale's partner, is a professional singer, and at the end of each segment, you get the pleasure of hearing her sing several songs with the Bobby Benson Orchestra to a ballroom full of dancers. You'll get a good introduction to both tango and waltz in this 50-minute video. --Joan Price

Product Description

Yes, it is possible! Let Nancy Hays, singer, dancer, performer extraordinaire, introduce you and your lover to The Romance of Dance!

Bring Back the Romance of Dance: Tango & Waltz Beginning Steps is an entertaining, easy and romantic video for the new generation of ballroom dancers. Entertainer Nancy Hays and award-winning instructor Greg Gale demonstrate the beginning steps to the Tango and Waltz.

You've seen these smooth dances featured in many recent movies, commercials and theatrical productions. They are particularly popular for weddings and special occasions (like Valentine's Day!) because of their flair, passion and elegance.

In Bring Back the Romance of Dance: Tango & Waltz you'll be dancing along with others to the music of Nancy Hays and The Bobby Benson Orchestra, who will set the mood as they perform standards from songwriters such as the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin in a contemporary style, at the famous Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago.

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Customer Reviews

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clear instruction for beginners, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bring Back the Romance of Dance, Vol. 2 - Beginning Tango and Waltz [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The instructor starts out showing the man's steps using a waist down camera angle. You get a great shot of the step patterns. Then they add the woman's footwork and finally, full body shots so you can see the whole dance. This technique is quite easy to follow with clear verbal instructions. Only four beginning steps are covered for Walz and four for Tango. The one drawback is the video of the practice sessions where a ballroom of bad-dancing students move to the music of Nancy Hays and her orchestra. I found it a little too self-promotional, but it was really funny in a corny sort of way.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tango and Waltz do not mix, July 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bring Back the Romance of Dance, Vol. 2 - Beginning Tango and Waltz [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video mixes two very different dances. Tango is so different from waltz that it should be in a separate video. Additionally, the tango here is of the ballroom variety, which looks and sounds nothing like the authentic Argentine Tango.