Product Details

• Actors: Neon
• Directors: Neon
• Format: NTSC, Widescreen
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 2
• Studio: Stratostream - World Dance New York
• DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012
• Run Time: 230 minutes
• ASIN: B00097DNXK

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About the Actor

Neon is an acclaimed dance & dance fitness instructor and a star performer based in New York City. Infusing classic bellydance with high-impact modern flair, Neon's dance style is characterized by organic fluidity, precise intricate hipwork, and hypnotic evocative flow.

Neon performs contemporary bellydance in NYC, and works on her line of instructional videos featuring her breakthrough fast-track, accelerated-learning method: Breaking down belly dance movements, grouping dance moves into clear-cut categories to enable systematic learning and easy recall of dance patterns when improvising.

Neon is the owner and publisher of Stratostream Entertainment and its World Dance New York and other DVD labels, conceptualizing and producing videos and DVDs for dance education and entertainment. Her work has set a new standard for the treatment and presentation of belly dance as a sophisticated mainstream dance art, and has contributed significantly to popularizing bellydance among entertainment consumers and students of dance. World Dance New York is the most prolific publisher of dance instruction videos in the world.

ABOUT BELLYDANCE
Bellydance is a fun, sexy, elegant party dance, an indispensable feature of the coolest dancefloors of the world and a modern lifestyle component merging the worlds of fitness, sensuality and celebration. It is irresistable.

Originating in folk dances of the Central and South Asia, Turkey, the Arab Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa, belly dance has been a popular variety genre in the West since the mid-20th century. With the rise of world music it has arrived in Western nightclubs and on the party scene. The sexy, or sensual image of belly dance comes from its emphasis on the articulation of the hips, pelvic movement, and fluid undulations. Belly dance movement is organic, deriving from the natural, instinctual motion of the human body: this is the source of its body-shaping potential.

Product Description

Sensual Goddess is a bellydance instruction program designed for beginners. It s 4 hours of non-stop movement with music. The emphasis in our program is on meaningful, evocative and sensual movement - something you can learn from the very first steps, if you focus on it. What makes your movement sensual, and what makes it sexy? You will see and try a lot of moves and learn to modulate the flavors of your dance, such as sensuality, playfulness, classiness, as well as emotional range and depth.

For absolute beginners the program includes detailed breakdown of classic bellydance moves. We practice each move individually, and learn to layer hipwork on footwork, and add upper body moves and arm trajectories, linking them with graceful transitions. All of this is movement with music, from the very first step.

In addition, we learn combinations based on poses, gestures and arm patterns - these elements are typically used to add expressivity to a bellydance performance - this is the dance body language that will breathe meaning and emotional appeal into your dance. But these elements can also be used on their own, to create whole evocative compositions, while all we do is steps and gestures - very valuable when you are a beginner still working on your basic bellydance moves. These steps and gestures allow you to express your inspiration and perform with no dance training.

Arm trajectories, delicate movements of your hands, head tilts and turns, articulations of your posture - these things make your dance sensual and beautiful, and you can learn them without knowing any bellydance steps and use them in any form of dance.

Then, each group of steps is assembled into a combination and we practice this combination, and finally we have a beautiful and evocative choreographed dance featuring all the combinations we ve learned. We ll practice each combination as it appears in the dance - so you will learn a lot of moves, practice them thoroughly, with transitions, and then you will be able to perform our Sensual Goddess choreography. It s an elegant dance fit for any occasion - family event, a festive party, or a stage show. The music selections in the combinations practice and the choreography are different, so you will learn to adapt the steps and combinations to any music.