Vashti's Gypsy Passion: Belly Dance Fusion Choreography With Skirt

I wish I read Serena Dances "chickenlittle25" review (read her review before you buy cause she dose a good job on breaking it down) before I bought it, but I had already order the DVD before she posted it. When I hear Gypsy, I think Turkish style. Like Serena's review, this is not what I expected.Don't get me wrong, if you like very heavy Flamenco Stylized Fusion Gypsy Dance, she teaches it wonderful. The routine is breath taking to watch but its really not my style of dance. I love the fact that you can watch the dance from the front and back view. What is really distracting is that she is dancing from the back view, the electric plug just stands out like a sore thumb in the background. The walls are this tan color, she is dressed in a lovely red outfit, which I would love to own, and you see this very white electric plug box floating in the background. Makes it sorta of amateurish.Over all, I am very disappointed that its not Turkish Gypsy Style. I really wish Amazon had the Editorial Review on when I bought it. Then again that was the gamble I took, with no review and very little to no information on the DVD. Honesty if you like Flamenco, you will love this DVD. She teaches very beautiful routine. I'm not sure if I will buy Cheeky Girls Productions DVD again. This is the 2nd one that I've been very dissappointed with and the camera work at times aren't very smooth on both dvds, where your going how did this get passed editing or why didn't they just reshoot it?

Vashti's Gypsy Passion was not entirely what I was looking for, but it had good points. The women in the DVD came in all shapes and sizes, like real women do. Some of the moves were beautiful and elegant. Some moves had a lot of footwork to learn, but went unseen with the long skirt.The techniques centered around the skirt, and did not show any moves with the torso. I would not call this so much as a belly dance tehnique, as much as an interesting skirt dance.

I enjoyed learning the choreography on this DVD tremendously. I do have to admit that the music had to "grow" on me, but it was exactly the style of gypsy dance I was looking to learn. Pooh on those who are upset that it is not "Turkish" gypsy. You can see the style of gypsy dance from the cover costume that Vashti wears. The choreography goes very well with the music. If you want to get an idea of the dance before you invest in the DVD, you can check out YouTube (do a search for "Majesty of Dawn") to see the dance (with some minor alterations) and hear the music. Pooh also on those who criticize the front/back presentations of the dance. I find them extremely helpful. She not only shows front/back during instruction, but also performs the entire dance from both the front and the back, and having the back view helps when you're trying to do the dance along with the video.One thing Vashti does is slow her counting on the "Interlude" sections, counting two beats as one, when the tempo is actually the same as before, but without the background rhythm instrumentation. In other words, the tempo of the music doesn't really change, but the "feel" of the music does, and so does Vashti's counting, which might be confusing if you're like me and want to count to the same tempo as the rest of the song. Her odd counting tempo crops up again in the "chassé, pas de bourée" section, which she counts as "one-and-two, three-and-four." If you try to do it at that tempo, you will go crazy. It's actually done to counts of eight: one-two-three (hold four), five-six-seven (hold eight). That said, it is still an excellent DVD, and the counts are very easy to follow if you bear the above in mind.Another good thing about this DVD is that the music can be downloaded for a buck -- very helpful for those of us with budgets. It's annoying to pay top dollar for a dance instruction DVD, and then find you also have to pay for an entire CD, or find that the music in unavailable.I hope Vashti comes out with another instructional DVD. I will be first in line to buy it if she does.

It would be a good instructional video for the very beginner, but I was disappointed with most of this video

This video was an inspiration for me. So often Flamenco is depicted as an aggressive violent form of music. Here, Vashi presents a gentle sensible Flamenco. I wish that I had found this video earlier.

Vashti's Gypsy Passion: Belly Dance Fusion Choreography With Skirt I'm very happy with this DVD and for those guys in Australia who are worried it won't work on our DVD plays - don't stress it works fine. I love this choreography and hope that this will not be the last of its kind. Vashti did a great job of showing the steps and I like how she placed some girls facing the back as I have a choice in following. I feel she has done a grate job and appreciate the hard work that went into this tutorial and am so happy she has given me this to add to my dance tool box of choreographies. My only complaint is it's the only one if it kind " Vashti, make another one for your fans out here?" Amazon great job in the smooth mailing of this item too!

I am still waiting for this item, I havent receive it, please give me information about this shipment.. i am waiting

This dvd was a very easy to follow choreography, i did enjoy and appreciate the front and back instructions it made it so much easier to do. Love this dvd, although it doe's help if you have done flamenco.

Not for complete beginners as they would find it hard to follow. For intermediates who want to learn to use a skirt as a prop it's a good start. I like it.

Die Erwartungen wurden erfüllt. Es ist die passende Musik. Ich bin damit zufrieden und habe es schon sehr oft angesehen