Product Details

• Actors: Shawn Trautman, Joanna Trautman
• Directors: Shawn Trautman
• Format: NTSC, Dolby
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Dance Videos Direct
• DVD Release Date: November 1, 2006
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000K6UJBO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,990 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler is professional, easy to follow, designed specifically for beginners and fun for anyone wanting to get started on the dance floor. With nearly 1½ hours of instruction, four camera views, and four timeless and very popular Slow and Romantic dances, Shawn and Joanna Trautman will build your confidence and have you dancing along with them... literally. The design of the curriculum and camera placement for the DVDs allows the leaders to do the EXACT movements that Shawn presents, and it allows the followers to mimic Joanna in real time without having to turn away from the screen. In addition to learning along with the instructors with split-screen formatting, you will also get to dance each dance with music alongside the instructors at the end of each section. With nearly two decades of experience, several World Champion students to their credit, and their newly published book Picture Yourself Dancing, Shawn and Joanna will demonstrate, explain, and teach you to lead and follow the Slow Dance, Rumba, Waltz, and Nightclub Two-Step so you can dance anywhere with anyone, rather than just learning a single step that can only be done with your partner. This innovative DVD compilation teaches the basics and the most essential steps for beginners, which is perfect for gift-giving to friends, family, co-workers, or yourself. This DVD is best used as a starting point that will help you quickly accelerate your way through Shawn Trautmans Dance Collection in its entirety where you have your choice of more than 20 highly-rated full-length beginner dance instruction DVDs. Owning this DVD is the equivalent of having your own private instruction at home, over and over and over. If you are looking to learn to dance from proven instructors and not just see flashy moves that are impossible to execute, then the Dance Sampler series is for you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starter DVD to get you moving on the dance floor!, November 26, 2006

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Megan Hendricks (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler (Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection) (DVD)

I highly recommend this DVD for beginner dancers who want to get moving in a social dance setting. Shawn and Joanna break down the steps in a way that is easy to follow, even if you've never danced before. I've been dancing a little over a year, and I had done some of these dances before. Even for those I had done before, it was a good review. The slow dance and night club two step are especially helpful for weddings, parties or anywhere there is slow dancing and you want to do more than just sway side to side.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this video, December 5, 2006

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J. Sheffer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler (Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection) (DVD)

My wife and I are new to ballroom dancing in the last year. We've taken some lessons, but found that we needed the extra help of videos that we can use on our own schedule in our home and we've tried a bunch of them. This DVD and the whole series of new videos from Shawn Trautman have been a godsend and much more useful to us than the others we've tried. We are actually doing the dances within a short time and having fun, rather than getting aggravated with one another. Trautman's emphasis on the differing roles of leader and follower and the very clear demonstrations of those roles have helped us enormously. These DVDs include much more music and time to practice the new steps than most videos, rather than just watching an instructor do a step and go to another step. We like this video a lot and strongly recommend it. On a side note, the logistics/timing of shipping and subsequent email communications with the company were, after many frustrations with other online outfits, the best we've seen.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start Dancing with this DVD, January 25, 2007

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Raymond Jones "Raymond J." (Glendora, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler (Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection) (DVD)

Do you want to dance? Start here. I guarantee you; this DVD is exceptionally well done. As instructional material goes Trautman and his wife are incredibly easy to learn from. I watched the "Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler" and was really impressed with the clarity of instruction and the helpful comments on dance etiquette. The camera angles shift between the male and female perspectives which is really interesting. You will learn enough of the basic dance moves to feel confident on the dance floor. I would eagerly recommend this to anyone who wants to get a jumpstart on their dance moves. Honestly, I believe you could watch this one night and be out dancing the next. It gives a man immediate skills he can use the same weekend. If you want to dance, start here.