Product Details

• Actors: Gigi, Pedro Curbelo, Nick Van Eyck, Efrain Aldea, Ximena Aldea
• Directors: Debdoot Das
• Format: Color, Digital Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Digifilm, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: January 31, 2007
• Run Time: 555 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MW3BF2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,943 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Truly the best dance instructional video series on the market today --Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Senior Editor, All Music Guide

Product Description

A Salsa Dancer's Dream Four Best-Selling Award-Winning Salsa DVDs

The success of The Quick & Dirty Guides to Salsa sparked a dance DVD revolution. Packed with 92 lessons, this is the first and only multi-angle series on Salsa.

From the very basics to super advanced, from Salsa partner dancing to Salsa Team dancing, this four-DVD-Box set contains it all. The multi-angle aspect of this DVD sets it apart from the rest of the crowd. Shot with three cameras simultaneously, you can watch the moves from three angles. These Salsa DVDs make learning a pleasure. You will wonder how you did without multi-angles. If you want to learn Salsa quick and dirty, then this might be the series for you.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best purchase I've made in a long time, June 27, 2007

By	John Garcia - See all my reviews

I'll have to be honest when I say I've always objected to instructional DVD's, of any kind. Why sit at home in front of your tv, often by yourself, to learn someting, you can learn in real life. The real world is more exciting, more fun and as I formerly thought, more efficient.
Now the day I decided I wanted to learn Salsa, I looked for the best Salsa clubs in town and went there twice that week, just to find out I really wasn't gonna be able to dance like this. I couldn't seem to find the logic and basics of this dance, which made it quite impossible to lead a woman.
So I gave in and got my very first instructional DVD and it was amazing. A lot cheaper than taking classes from beginner to advanced, very exciting since I did it together with my new girlfriend and after an hour I understood the logic and basics to Salsa completely.
The Quick and Dirty Guide to SALSA, is clear, efficient, covers about anything you need to know (I've asked an expert) and with the 3 different view angles defiinately the best purchase I've made in the last few years!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality Salsa Instruction, June 9, 2007

By	Tamer Hassan (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD set is amazing! It can pretty much take you from two left feet to actually feeling confident on the dance floor. The quality is better than any other instructional video I have watched (which led to a bunch of Telly awards). The instructor is very clear and concise with some pep to go with it. Obviously nothing is a complete substitution for learning on the dance floor but practicing with this DVD made it so much easier. I highly recommend it to anybody who wants to learn or just sharpen their skills.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but not perfect., December 11, 2007

By	K. Khalifah "Sabroso74" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The multi-angle function is great - being able to switch between different angles during viewing is just brilliant. Gigi's instruction is nice and clear, Pedro complements her by jumping in and adding his 2 cents' worth from the leader's perspective. This is a very polished production as far as salsa DVDs are concerned, despite a few hiccups here and there (sometimes the cuts can be quite noticeable and it makes no attempt to hide the fact it is shot on video).

Glitches: First off, the hyperlink www.dirtysalsa.com highlighted in the menu is a dead link. What a blooper. Secondly, Gigi likes to call the moves - now, while this is fine for rueda it does not work for social dancing. Compounding to the problem is the fact that there is little mention about leading, which is a key aspect of salsa partnerwork. Thirdly - and this is a major omission - the DVD makes absolutely NO MENTION of what type of salsa it is teaching, which is incredibly silly. LA/NY-style dancers wouldn't like the feeling of being conned into buying this DVD.