Ultimate belly dance with Sadie
1 rating since posting on Friday, June 26, 2009
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I have mixed feelings about this dvd, while it is not a total waste if you have other sadie dvd;s you may be in for a dissapointment. A lot of these moves (Majority 98.999%)are covered on other dvd's. So if you don't have her other dvds then this will be wonderful for you, but if you do you probably should not get this. As I figured she has put out so many instructionals that the instruction content was bound to overlap and believe me it did. I am also dissapointed that the promo for this was not longer, had it been I would have known to pass on this dvd.While it is the more expensive of the three in this series this is my lest favorite one. Many of these moves are on her drum solo which she breaks down well all you have to do is drill. The Menu has these five sections Play all Technique Choreography Bonus performance and about Sadie. Technique-The warm up section is first and talks a bit about layering the warm up was like any work out you would find in a regualr dance class or on any other Sadie dvd. All stretching. That leads into 9 drill sections <Horizontal and Vertical upper Body Isolations, these are just chest circles and slides while in a sumu squat position. She changes the level of the squat to help build stamina in the legs. <Lower body isolations,undulations and floor stretch,this includes hip slides, front and back slides leading into exterior pelvic circles.The undulations are layered over lunges (I personally liked this one). The floor stretch was an open leg stretch . She gave wonderful instruction with this section which she considers still a warm-up. <Layering drills: Foundation moves, Which layers basic moves from the chest and hip. <Layering drills Basic shimmies, this section was okay but I have had better shimmy instructions. <Layering:ups and downs with hip isolations, I like how the music is right on cue with her isolations. <Layering: ups and downs with chest circle isolations <Layering : 3/4 shimmies and chest circles, one of my absolute favorite moves."and if you have to take a break". Well said. <Soft layers" Undulations and hip circles <Soft layers" Mayas and sways with undulations. Not my favorte move but I can see how it can go well in certain songs. The whole undulation while doing a maya honestly looks uncoordianted even when Sadie is doing it.This is practically the only move that is not covered in any of the dvds that I have. Choreography-The choreography is broken down into three sections.lolol She loves to do the pose hop undulate up. This choreography is a true intermediate dvd. The repetition is great and not too much was thrown in the choreography at one time. A lot of footwork and turns are used. Sadie always does the entire choreo for each section with music. So if she is on section 2 she will do 1 and 2 when it is time to practice with music. To be honest if you have her drum solo dvd from this collection you will find this choreography tame.But since practice is practice this will be a very good practice session and you may see some combinations you would like to use on your own choreography.I am not a fan of this choreography but it is not a bad choreography to help you practice as she just wanted you to get an idea of what it is like putting the technique together with music. Bonus performance-The Bonus performance music was the soul of Cairo by Ahmad Gibah and Orcehstra.Gorgeous costume, while I adore Sadies dance routines I must honestly say something seemed off about this performance. The music was very sensual and I don't know if all the movements thrown in quite captured the theme of the music.Personal taste, the performance does not add or take away from the quality of this dvd. and About Sadie-The about Sadie is just a written review about 3 paragraphs long talking about her and her dance company nothing no one that know anything about Sadie wouldn't know. This is the same review on her other dvd's that were released this year. Truthfully they could have left it out but since they didn't okay. This is my 5th Sadie instructional dvd and I feel like a lot of this has already been covered so if you already have a nice amount of her dvds then I would not suggest getting this. I am very dissapointed I had this on pre-order only to get the dvd and see the moves are on other dvds, but since I see the use it will have for those who does not collect her dvd's I will not give it a super low rating. If I had a choice between this and thrillin drillin I would say thrillin drillin all the way. Again I stress if you are a beginner or beginner intermdiate or intermediate and you do not have many sadie instructinals then this will be perfect for you as usual Sadie is a wonderful teacher of hard brain wired movements. I do not want to deter you because this will be perfect to help enhance your dance and movement vocabulary.Layering drills also help you to pick up other layering moves fairly well. So I will give it a 4 for the content for new sadie students lolol. - Lilly , posted 06/26/09 |
Ultimate belly dance with Sadie was recommended for:
- Tribe: Bellydance Reviews
- Tribe: Bellydance CD/DVD Reviews and Trade
- Tribe: The Everyday Bellydancer
