Serpentine Belly Dance (2 Dvd) [Edizione: Stati Uniti]

Amazon.com’s #1 most popular tribal fusion-style belly dance DVD since its release, Serpentine: Belly Dance with Rachel Brice TWO DVD SET by World Dance New York is a unique blend of yoga conditioning, bellydance technique drills, choreography and mini- belly dance classes designed by Rachel Brice, star performer and instructor of contemporary belly dance, whose technique, artistic style, and warm personality have contributed mightily to the rise and ongoing popularity of Tribal Fusion belly dance.

The instructional method created by Rachel offers you tools to achieve precision of isolations, deep full-range movement, as well as flexibility and strength that will give you the sinuous serpentine grace characteristic of her own dance style. Her drills, combinations and yoga sessions are designed to help you establish your own regular dance practice, customized to fit your creative goals and lifestyle. How do belly dance and yoga fit together? You can see a two-and-a-half-minute preview video at World Dance New York.

The two main sections of Serpentine: Belly Dance with Rachel Brice (TWO DVD SET) are Belly Dance Technique and Bellydance Choreography and Classes.

The Technique section opens with Yoga for Belly Dance carefully crafted to enhance your strength and flexibility, qualities crucial for relaxed, effortless dance. A veteran yoga instructor with many years of practice, training, and yoga teaching experience, Rachel Brice leads you in a beautiful flow of classic yoga postures and stretches. She teaches yoga in the Viniyoga tradition as transmitted by Gary Kraftsow and the faculty of the American Viniyoga Institute, LLC.

The Yoga is followed by three drills sessions: Leg Strengthening Drills, including a variety of travel and level-change exercises, and mini-combinations.

Isolation Drills (shoulders, torso, and pelvis) where you practice belly dance isolations and then layer each one on 4 footwork patterns; and the Shimmy Drill, a delightful high-energy non-stop shimmy practice with Rachel’s signature shimmy layering. The Technique section ends with a Concluding Yoga Practice.

The Belly Dance Choreography & Classes section features two choreographies; A fast and playful dance set to music of progressively increasing tempo, and a flowing slow dance including backbends and fluid serpentine movement punctuated with elegant accents. Each choreography is performed in costume and then demonstrated from the back with Rachel facing the mirror. Rachel teaches you the combinations for each choreography step-by-step with practice first at a slower pace, and then the faster. A special DVD feature offers practice loops for each combination.

To promote correct and safe backbending technique, Rachel Brice teaches a mini-class on the biomechanics of backward bending, and leads you in the Yoga for Backward Bending practice designed to increase the flexibility and the range of motion in your back and develop a strong habit for proper muscle support when executing backbends.

Additional classes and materials by Rachel include: Yoga Breathing; arm and footwork patterns to be used during the drills; basics of 10-Point Dance Posture; and two performances by Rachel.