Learn To Dance : Go Fatima (1999) Review

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(More customer reviews)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!

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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."

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Breakin' It Down With Laurie Ann Gibson (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)The dvd is set on a industrial looking space with Laura getting help from dancers. It comes in 5.1 as well as regular stereo.
First she shoes a music video for a minute that only had a few moves of the ones you'd be learning.
She introduces the dvd for 3 min & then there's a very short warm-up (if you can call it that) for 3 min. of just head rolls, hip bumps, arm circles & side stretches.
The beginning moves is only 13 min. with 6 male & female backups. She shows you the moves with music real-time first, then goes slower time & breaks it down move by move w/o music. She doesn't give that many cues, but she uses good analogies. She will go through each move 1-3x depending on complexity. This is not meant to be an exercise video, just instruction with her knowing you can always rewind if you forget quickly. After 2-3 moves, she will ask you to try them together calling out the names of the move as you do them to music sometimes. Then she breaks down another 2-3 & then you put those together with the first 3. She only goes from the top at the end only one time with music.
The Intermediate is only 10 min. with 4 male & female dancers which again, she shows you how it looks first, then breaks it down like I said above.
The advanced moves she says if you can do it, you should be a dancer. This is also only 10 min with 2 guys as backup.
This makes a total of about 36 minutes of warm-up & dancing. After is 4 minutes superstars & freestyle where they show a couple examples of how to take some of the moves you learned & add it to your own dancing at a club.
The music was great, too bad she didn't have it playing softly in the background as she taught. I didn't have a problem with her voice or speaking style. I didn't find the moves that complex, I got a few easily the first time, but to get it down would take practice of course. She does cue your left & right, but I'm so used to mirroring anyhow. The only thing I could wish was more repitition (cheaper for them to tell you just to rewind) & a few more cues when breaking down each move.
There's another menu choice called "club remix" after the "class selection" where they show how to move to House music for 4 min, Reggae with teaching 3 moves for 6 min & Salsa for 3 min in a club. Mostly it's very talented dancers showing off & giving you ideas if can do it just by watching.
There's a trailer at collagevideo com

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Laurie Ann Gibson, one of the world’s top choreographers and star of MTV’s Making the Band 3 presents this new dance instructional sensation.Over the course of the program, Laurie Ann takes you step-by-step through a variety of dance routines. From basic through advanced moves seen only in today’s hottest music videos and movies, Laurie Ann will give you the style, skills and confidence to dance just like a superstar.

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