Product Details

• Actors: Go Fatima
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: November 30, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000025RE0
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,068 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

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Go, Fatima! is cooler than a five-dollar snow cone. In this video, Fatima Robinson--renowned choreographer for the Backstreet Boys--demonstrates the steps you've been trying to master since you saw them in her latest music video. The result is a fast-moving, 42-minute head-and-body workout. You'll want to show your friends, teach your friends, and then perform with your friends for your friends' friends. Fatima is a sinewy, commanding dancer with a serious six-pack and moves to spare. She's a smart teacher, too. With the help of some talented backup dancers, she uses a range of techniques and, best of all, makes fantastic sound effects.

Go, Fatima! breaks into three segments. Fatima teaches moves from two music videos (one with Aaliyah, one with BSB) and finishes with moves you can bust out with at dances, clubs, and parties. Fatima is playful with the other dancers and funks it up with steps such as the Raj and the Shake. Her teaching is fast paced, but she repeats each move several times, speeding it up, counting it out, and then putting it all to the music. Fatima doesn't mirror-teach her dance moves, though--when she steps right, it's your left, which is tricky.

The video's camerawork combines close-ups and wide-angle shots. The backdrop is a sleek concrete, glass, and steel studio (for a while, Fatima dances on top of a giant silver pillar). The music thumps. If you liked the footage of Fatima in the All Access Backstreet Boys video, you'll love her as the center of attention here. Besides, she'd look cool tying her shoes. --Emily Bedard

Product Description

Learn to dance with the choreographer for The Backstreet Boys and Aaliyah. Learn the routines to Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody," the Backstreet Boys "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)," and Fatima's "Da Jig."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you love to dance, this tape is the BEST workout!, May 10, 2000

By	April M. Reyes "ARae" (Huntington Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been DYING to find a video that is a good cardio workout as well as fun, hip dance routines and this is it! I have truly missed learning dance routines from when I was a cheerleader in high school (I'm 28 now) so when I read about Fatima and the video in Women's Sports and Fitness magazine, I hopped on to amazon.com the next day and ordered this video. Its the best ( ) I've spent in awhile! I can come home from a long, hard day at work and have no energy to go for a run or do a workout tape but I pop in Go Fatima and before I know it, an hour has passed and I'm dripping with sweat! The moves are really fun and are not super easy to learn - but if they were too simple, I'd have it mastered too quickly and then its really no workout, right? My awesome exercise comes from repeating steps over and over. I hope Fatima makes more videos but this time, I would really like to learn routines to ENTIRE songs or something I could put to several songs. That's the only real reason I didn't give it 5 stars - because the Aaliyah routine is 3 separate parts of the video and the BSB routine is only from the end of the video. The clothes Fatima wears are VERY cool - and for someone who has never had formal dance training, this woman knows how to get her groove on! All I can say is, Go Fatima!

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but confusing., December 8, 1999

By	Jaime T. Hemmert (Salt Lake City, Utah.) - See all my reviews

I thought this video was a lot of fun, but there was one thing about it that bothered me. Whenever Fatima was teaching the dance moves, she did not do any 'mirroring.' Everytime she would say 'right' or 'left' I was forced to try to do the opposite of what I saw on the screen. It was confusing, but overall a great purchase.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, FUN fitness video, October 18, 2001

By	divalicious (Vancouver, Canada baby) - See all my reviews

I would give this video 5 stars, but I never give anything 5 stars because giving something 5 stars means I think it's perfect, and nothing is perfect. Anyhow, I read the earlier reviews about this video "Go Fatima, Learn to dance" and their was one when a cheerleader said she thought it was so hard. Okay I'm sorry, I dance...who doesn't, but I never took classes and I'm not a gifted dancer, but this video was pretty easy. The best thing to do, is watch the whole video first and then do it. It was so fun, I did break a sweat and it doesn't feel like a workout cause it's so much fun. To know that you can do the dance routine feels really cool. It's not incredibly easy but trust me, if you can move you're feet you can do this video. Fatima is a great choreographer, and yeah her left is your right but trust me you'll get it. Hope this helped.