Product Details

• Actors: Margot Scholz
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur Video
• DVD Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Run Time: 68 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000G1ALI4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,572 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

If you have always wanted to feel more confident on the dance floor, "Introduction to Ballroom Dancing" may be just the answer. Now you can learn the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot right at home! The routines in this program may be practiced with a partner or alone. This program may be used by those with little or no previous dance experience and as a refresher for those with prior experience. It is designed to improve social skills in the privacy of one’s own home. These skills, once learned, add lifelong enrichment and pleasure. This DVD will teach you the basic steps to these dances as well as several variations and turns. In addition, you will learn proper dancehold and foot positions. Now you can practice the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot to the tunes from such popular Broadway hits as Cats, Mame and Fiddler on the Roof as performed by the Günter Norris Orchestra. And Ballroom Dancing is a great way to stay in shape and much more pleasurable than merely exercising to music. Your instructor, Margot Scholz, brings her experience and enthusiasm into your home as you learn ballroom dancing. She is a member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance and is the winner of numerous dance competitions. She has taught dance throughout Europe and in the United States. Dance your way to fun and fitness with the exciting Introduction to Ballroom Dancing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Teacher Reviews Margot's Video, December 2, 2006

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Dave Wissel (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz (DVD)

Margot Scholz is truely one of the great ballroom teachers. Everybody should take a lesson with Margot just to see how expertly she spots problems and how fast she can fix them. Anybody who takes a lesson with Margot is in for a real treat...and now you can have her on video.

If you're a beginner just starting out, this DVD is a great tool. Even if you're not a beginner, the way Margot explains this material can fill in some gaps your beginner teacher perhaps forgot to mention. It covers a lot of begninner material but don't let this fool you that it is not good. Margot precisely mentions EXACTLY what you are to do. In contrast a lot of other videos of teachers leave the student guessing as nothing is explained well...or the footwork is sloppy.

One of the mistakes of beginners is not getting the right foundation before moving on to the more complicated material. If you were dancing solo, this would be tolerable....but ballroom/latin dancing takes two people and if you're not grounded in the basics, its a real problem of "the blind leading the blind". So its best to go slowly and pick up the basics to as much completion as possible. In this manner this video will help. You can rewind and fast forward and you'll find the material expertly and preceisely presented.

Happy dancing!!

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, February 20, 2007

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DanceWise - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz (DVD)

A real no-brainer using Margot's examples. I learned the Cha-Cha in 10 minutes flat using this DVD, and the other dance steps are just as easy to learn. I wish Ms. Scholz would produce an intermediate and advanced series!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like it . . .Should sometimes teach from the female perspective, September 21, 2007

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J. Colosimo (Arvada, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz (DVD)

This video really breaks down the steps and the instructor is very talented and graceful. The problem is: she teaches the male steps and tells the female do just do the reverse which is not as easy as it may seem. Plus, it looks like someone shot it with a handheld camera.