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Summary: All Show and No Go
Review: Lovely expert dance choreography for the viewer to watch, but this video fails as an instructional tool. The styling tips in the introduction, such as how to ask and how to accept an invitation, are quite helpful. This is one of the few dance videos that I have viewed which addresses dancing etiquette. It is very annoying to have the man drag the woman into a closer dancing position when she has already set her distance for a social dance.
The man's movements are shown with the male dancer facing the camera. Teresa Mason does a poor job of explaining the dance steps. The woman's movements are never broken down, and she supposedly simply does the opposite, but in watching the video, you can see that that is not true, especially for the turns.
Running the video in slow motion does not help matters. Teresa Mason needs to give a clear step-by-step explanation; the male dancers should face away from the camera and slowly walk through the movements. Then the female dancer should walk through her part. The dancers should go through the steps together slowly once more, and then finally at normal speed.
The video shows a variety of dancing styles, but trying to follow and learn even the most basic steps is an exercise in frustration.
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Summary: Thanks, Teresa!
Review: Since early last year, I have been volunteering at Shady Oaks Retirement Community. My time there did not start well, as I have few talents that appeal to a large group - stand-up comedy and solo bass guitar being two of them. On a whim, I purchased this DVD.Boy, am I glad I did! Although I must have knocked over my Cookie Monster lamp 40 times in the course of practicing my spins and twirls around the living room, I finally became a pretty nice hoofer, although it didn't come without stepping on Mrs. Loman's feet a few times (she forgave me). Thanks for this DVD, I am now the king of Shady Oaks. The ladies line up for Leonard, and he dances all night (7 pm - 8:30 pm).
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Summary: Thanks, Teresa!
Review: Since early last year, I have been volunteering at Shady Oaks Retirement Community. My time there did not start well, as I have few talents that appeal to a large group - stand-up comedy and solo bass guitar being two of them. On a whim, I purchased this DVD. Boy, am I glad I did! Although I must have knocked over my Cookie Monster lamp 40 times in the course of practicing my spins and twirls around the living room, I finally became a pretty nice hoofer, although it didn't come without stepping on Mrs. Loman's feet a few times (she forgave me). Thanks for this DVD, I am now the king of Shady Oaks. The ladies line up for Leonard, and he dances all night (7 pm - 8:30 pm).
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Summary: Doesn't actually teach anything
Review: This video doesn't teach you anything about how to dance. For starters every type of dance is broken up into sections that only last 5 minutes or so. Every move is demonstrated for you very quickly and only twice so that if you can't learn a move within the ten seconds that its shown you have to keep rewinding. To make it worse you are only showed the man's steps and the woman is just told to do the opposite. Trust me, just doing the opposite is not that easy. I can't recommend any other videos because I haven't tried them, but if you have no clue how to do any basic moves, as I don't, Do not waste your money on this DVD.
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