Learning to Belly Dance from Videos: Re: Learning from videos
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Yes, the Veena and Neena tapes are very very basic. If you are not an absolute beginner with no real background in dance, you will not get much out of them.Some instructional tapes I like are the Belly Dancing With Mara series (vol. 1 is great for beginners who are frustrated with not being able to "put all the moves together" - this tape helped me get past that barrier - and volume 3 has some good combos for beginner to intermediate dancers), and also the Fat Chance Belly Dance Tribal Basics and Advanced Workshop tapes. For more advanced work, try Suzanna del Vecchio 's Precision Motion Workout and Dynamic Combinations tapes.
My favorite choreography tapes are the Hahbi Ru Cymbal Dance, and anything by Shareen El Safy. These are appropriate for intermediate to advanced dancers.
My favorite performance tapes include Ansuya Live at Al Amir (improvisational solo with zils!); Hahbi Ru - Live!; Dances of Egypt; and Artemis Dances.
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