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Swing: Dancing with Teresa Mason

January 21st, 2012

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The cultural effect of the revival of Swing Dancing has been sudden and intense. It is now a common sight at dance clubs across the country to see hep cats in their black and white spectator shoes and zoot suits out on the dance floor swirling and twirling their bobby-socked dance partners. Now you can join in all the excitement and learn to master the techniques of Swing dancing with ballroom dancing champion Teresa Mason. This informative dance class features the basic steps for the five most popular Swing dances including West Coast Swing, East Coast Swing, Lindy, Jitterbug, Jive. Included are five steps for each dance as well as a styling tip. Your competence and confidence will grow as your progress through each easy-to-understand lesson.
Teresa Mason is a professional teacher and performer and is a former national champion competitor. Her teaching is accredited by the Imperial Society. Together with her partner, Lance Estridge, they operate Dance Arts in Houston. Miss Mason is the creator and instructor of the Ballroom Dancing series of DVD’s also available from Kultur.

Swing: Dancing with Teresa Mason

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Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz

December 31st, 2011

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If you have always wanted to feel more confident on the dance floor, “Introduction to Ballroom Dancing” may be just the answer. Now you can learn the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot right at home! The routines in this program may be practiced with a partner or alone. This program may be used by those with little or no previous dance experience and as a refresher for those with prior experience. It is designed to improve social skills in the privacy of one’s own home. These skills, once learned, add lifelong enrichment and pleasure. This DVD will teach you the basic steps to these dances as well as several variations and turns. In addition, you will learn proper dancehold and foot positions. Now you can practice the Swing, Rumba, Cha-Cha, Waltz and Fox Trot to the tunes from such popular Broadway hits as Cats, Mame and Fiddler on the Roof as performed by the Günter Norris Orchestra. And Ballroom Dancing is a great way to stay in shape and much more pleasurable than merely exercising to music. Your instructor, Margot Scholz, brings her experience and enthusiasm into your home as you learn ballroom dancing. She is a member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance and is the winner of numerous dance competitions. She has taught dance throughout Europe and in the United States. Dance your way to fun and fitness with the exciting Introduction to Ballroom Dancing.

Intro to Ballroom Dancing / Margot Scholz

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Country Dancing for Beginners

December 10th, 2011

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COUNTRY DANCING FOR BEGINNERS – DVD MovieAmazon.com
Country Dancing for Beginners begins with an inspiring demo of how competition-level dancers–Josh Zuniga and Alina Wilson–might style the six dances: country polka, waltz, cha-cha, two-step, East Coast swing, and West Coast swing. Then Zuniga and Wilson demonstrate the basic level of each dance with variations while Teresa Mason’s voice instructs. The “beginner” designation of this video might be misleading. Although the instructors demonstrate basic steps, they move quickly through the dances: five steps, plus a routine putting it all together, of six different dances in 60 minutes. You’ll have to pause the program frequently to practice. True beginners might be intimidated by the pace, and the routine at the end is more intermediate than beginning level. Country Dancing for Beginners will appeal to experienced dancers of other styles of dance who are learning country western for the first time, but are not novice dancers. It’s nicely produced and beautifully danced. –Joan Price

Country Dancing for Beginners

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Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.

November 19th, 2011

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Funeral strippers work on Electric Flower Cars (EFC) which are trucks that have been converted to moving stages so that women can perform as the vehicles follow along with funerals or religious processions. EFC came to Taiwan’s public attention in 1980 when newspapers began covering the phenomenon of stripping at funerals. There is a great deal of debate about whether this should be allowed to continue. In Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, one often hears middle and upper class men complain about the harmful effects of this rural practice on public morality. In contrast, people in the industry see themselves as talented performers and fans of the practice say that it makes events more exciting. Dancing for the Dead follows this story, interviewing Taiwan’s academics, government officials, and people working in the EFC industry to try to make sense of this phenomenon. The film includes footage from nine different cities across Taiwan, including EFC performances, a funeral, and several religious events.

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.

Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan.

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Jodi Stolove’s Chair Dancing Around the World

October 29th, 2011

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Chair Dancing®’s Around the World program is a fun and convenient way to get aerobic exercise, tone muscles, improve flexibility and burn calories. You’ll do a country western dance, a Brazilian samba, a polka, an Argentinean Tango, a Viennese Waltz, a Caribbean calypso, and much more, all while comfortably seated on a chair. Originally scored music and up-beat choreography make Chair Dancing® the fitness program you’ll look forward to doing regularly! Three exercise levels show you how to adapt the program to your current fitness ability. You’ll continue to be challenged as your endurance improves. When you exercise the Chair Dancing® way, you’ll enjoy aerobic fitness like never before!

Jodi Stolove’s Chair Dancing Around the World

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Live at Broadway Dance Center – The Care and Feeding of A Dancer with Toni Branner, M.A.

October 20th, 2011

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Join us as Toni Branner, exercise physiologist, author, and (most importantly) mother of a dancer, presents the latest research on free radical damage and oxidative stress in dancers and athletes. Develop your free radical defense system by eating foods with the right nutrients. Learn real and simple solutions to improve your family s nutrition. Prevent disease, enhance your immune system, and achieve optimal health. Research regarding the prevention of memory loss, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Parkinson s disease, Alzheimer s disease, and aging will be shared. This is your chance to impact your future and your dancer s future in the most meaningful way.

Live at Broadway Dance Center – The Care and Feeding of A Dancer with Toni Branner, M.A.

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She Demons

October 20th, 2011

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A hurricane, island castaways, dancing native girls, female monsters, Nazis, a mad scientist, weird surgical experiments and a volcano–all prime ingredients for horror exploitation films. Or, in the case of “She Demons,” one horror exploitation film. This lively, lurid shocker from writer/director Richard E. Cunha managed the remarkable feat of cramming all of these plot elements into its 76-minute running time.

She Demons

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Mtv / Grind Workout: Dance Club Aerobics

October 18th, 2011

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If you like the energy high, with plenty of visual and auditory stimulation, you’ll enjoy Grind: Dance Club Aerobics. The scene is a trendy dance club. Host Eric Neis does the workout alongside able and motivating instructor Akiba Tripp. They are followed by an assortment of hot bods–bare-chested males and bare-midriffed females, all young, buffed, sweaty, and enthusiastically loud, who take turns instructing moves. The hip-hop choreography is intense, but the instructors make it more accessible by showing each move at half-time, then bringing it up to tempo, then joining it onto the other moves until you have a long pattern. Then the pattern is repeated several times, with visual interest added by having the instructors in different formations: just the guys, just the women, one woman and a bunch of guys, and so on. You, of course, get to participate every time. The aerobic workout ends with a “funky freestyle,” where the instructors show off their own moves, one by one, while you do whatever you want and watch. Then you cool down and stretch, followed by floor exercises for the lower body. This 50-minute video is a lot of fun, especially if you’re young and coordinated, with energy to burn. –Joan Price

Mtv / Grind Workout: Dance Club Aerobics

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A Scottish Christmas featuring Bonnie Rideout

October 15th, 2011

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A heartwarming celebration of traditional carols and music from Scotland captured in an unforgettable performance. Featuring the world’s top Celtic musicians, Highland dancers, and members of the City of Washington Pipe Band.

A Scottish Christmas featuring Bonnie Rideout

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West Coast Swing for Intermediate Dancers Volume 1

October 15th, 2011

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Whip your West Coast Swing into shape! Nearly 60 fun and challenging combinations created from three basic whip patterns, three standard exits, and a whole slew of non-standard whips and exits found only in the Shawn Trautman Dance Collection are all taught in West Coast Swing for Intermediate Dancers Volume 1. This DVD extends the thorough instruction that is trademark to the Shawn Trautman Dance Collection to all the swing dancers out there who are now comfortable with the basics and ready for some more cool moves. West Coast Swing for Intermediate Dancers Volume 1 is professional, easy to follow, designed with the viewer in mind and fun for anyone who is ready to pick up the pace a little and really heat up the dance floor. With near 90 minutes of instruction, multiple camera views, and learner-friendly curriculum, Shawn and Joanna Trautman will build your confidence and help you get moving on the dance floor. Filmed and presented with multiple camera angles and Picture-in-Picture technology, you will be surprised at just how easily you learn with the right instruction. The design of the curriculum and camera placement for the DVDs allows the leaders to do the EXACT movements that Shawn presents, and it allows the followers to mimic Joanna in real time without having to turn away from the screen. In addition to learning along with the instructors with split-screen formatting, you will also get to dance each dance with music alongside the instructors at the end of each section.

West Coast Swing for Intermediate Dancers Volume 1

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