Product Details

• Actors: You Can Dance
• Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: May 25, 1999
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 076972065X
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,242 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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• This item is part of The You Can Dance Series.

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Nightclub dancing incorporates two very different styles. The first is fast, freestyle dancing that is done to rock or disco. At clubs, dances, and parties people move to the pulsing beat for hours. It's a great release and very good exercise. The other nightclub style is slow dancing. You move around the dance floor turning and swaying in each other's arms.

Vicki Regan teaches dancing the way she learned, step by step, one move at a time. Everything is carefully explained and demonstrated for both men and women. You'll start with the basics, then work your way up to combinations and moves that are easy to learn, but are very impressive on the dance floor. You'll learn in your own home, at your own convenience, and at your own pace. If you didn't learn a step perfectly the first time simply rewind the tape. You can practice alone, with a partner, or invite a group of friends. It's good exercise and great fun. If you're a beginner, ten minutes into this tape you'll be saying, "I can dance!"

Vicki Regan has danced on Broadway and in the movies, and was National and North American Ballroom and Latin Dance Champion. She has taught many people including other dance teachers and ballroom competitors. Ron De Vito, Vicki's teaching partner, is also an acclaimed Broadway dancer and a former National Ballroom Champion.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This was not the nightclub dancing I had expected, December 19, 1999

By A Customer

This video has introductory disco and slow dancing. If one is looking for beginning non-contact disco dancing, you will probably find this video helpful. The second part of the video features contact slow dancing. The instructors Vicki Regan and Ron De Vito are very capable, leading the viewers step by step. However, because there was no prior reviews of this video, I assumed too much and had thought the video would feature something like the disco hustle, a contact dance, and a slow dance such as the nightclub two step a la Buddy Schwimmer. As they say, buyer beware.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What You Wanted to Know About Disco, but Were Afraid to Ask, January 31, 2000

By A Customer

This tape was just what I was looking for. Whenever I've gotten on the dance floor, I've always winged it. I knew there were some very simple disco steps, but no one was ever able to show me what they were. This tape clued me in on how to do them instantly. The instructors made the dance routines so easy I picked them up in minutes, (and I was previously rhythmically-challenged). Now I feel like I'm ready to move on to the tough stuff. It's a great tape for beginners and people like me, who should have begun a long time ago!

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can dance!, February 19, 2004

By A Customer

If you cannot dance at all, this video will teach you how to at least hold your own on the dance floor. I had always avoided dancing at all costs. Up until recently, I would only go to bars that didn't have dance floors. I would even make excuses to my girlfriend to get out of dancing when we'd go out.

I finally decided to do something about it after a friend made fun of me recently. I've asked family members and friends to teach me how to dance, but nobody was able to teach me the fundamental rule that this video does: All you do is move your feet to the beat, and everything else will follow. I had always tried too hard to move my upper body to the beat. That's not the idea at all!

Some of the video was not helpful. Nobody does the forward-and-back type dancing. Some of the side-to-side stuff was not too useful, but the basic 'step left-step right', to the beat, was quite helpful indeed. Get that basic step down and you'll find yourself doing your own variations of it on the dance floor. Skip the double step...you probably won't even find room for that in most clubs.

If you can look past the occasional corniness of the video, you can really pick up some useful tips and can learn to dance in minutes!