Learn to Belly Dance Textbook & Certification Program: Dance Lessons & Choreographies For Students, Troupes, Performers & Dance Instructors Paperback – August 17, 2011

Learn to belly Dance Textbook and Certification Program is great, drawings are great and very thorough in the information listed inside the book.

Good informative book. Glad I purchased it.

Confusing choreography, needs to explain the names of steps in order to know if you are doing a shimmy, belly roll, hip drop, etc. Disorganized material as well. A person is better off using a dvd for practice and choreography ideas.

I enjoyed reading through this book very much. It helped me to understand how other teachers and dancers use the elements in a song. I appreciate that very much

"Learn to Belly Dance Textbook & Certification Program:" is really fun and exciting. This book of solo dance of sensual movements you can learn with friends, family or is great for anyone to practice and learn the steps. "Learn to Belly Dance" is especially a must read for the performing artist, and student to enhance their skills or even the dance teacher to bring new and improved steps to class. Shalimar is not only the author of this book but was crowned Miss America of the Belly Dance so you know the techniques in this book are that of a real professional. It is also full of some amazing choreography, exercises, and illustrations you must check out and see. I highly recommend this!

I did not think that much would be in a book on how to dance, but I am now proven wrong. The lessons and information can lead to a certification once complete for those who want to teach bellydancing. The choreography is right on point and there are fun activities too.I will be using this book for ladies nights out. I know the ladies will enjoy the work out and the sexiness of bellydancing. We will probably put some on video - add drinks and the laughter begins even more.Quite surprising to find this book to be so in depth.

I bought this for boxing day, me and my family were looking for something a little different and fun to do. I have had a look through it and I am most impressed so far. In 214 pages there is a lot of information, routines and packed with fun things to do. I am so happy I bought this and on that note I would be more than happy to recommend it. On boxing day we will be having one hell of a time using this. Thanks to the author for writing this.

This book comes from a print-on-demand publisher, which presumably means the content wasn't subject to the normal quality checks a traditional publisher would apply. That's great for an author keen to see her name in print by self-publishing, but not so great for the purchaser ...In terms of content, most of the book consists of 25 so-called "choreographies" - or rather, the song title, then a numbered list of moves. How those moves relate to the music, or anything else whatsoever about the moves, is a mystery. Some sort of introduction to this lady's method of recording choreography would have been helpful. On YouTube there are currently 4 of the choreographies uploaded to video, so you get some idea for what goes where, at least for those dances. But what about the remaining 21 dances?Putting aside content, in terms of look and feel the book isn't a joy. The cover graphics are like a bad PDF copy, pixellated & out of focus. The line drawings are mostly pretty hideous. That's a strong word I know, but they're neither pleasant to look at nor helpful to the reader (see page 29 as one example where the contorted shapes the figure assumes when demonstrating a move look painful!).One page, titled "hip circle" (containing 5 numbered steps supposedly explaining how to do a hip circle but missing any explanatory text under figures 3, 4 and 5), appears not just once but three times (pages 37, 40 and 43). Is this shoddy editing or was the author just short of content?Some of the content is unsafe: for instance the instruction to start the warm up with bounce stretches. Hint: a warm up aims to Warm the body and prepare it for movement; stretching is not a warm up, stretching is Stretching. Bounce stretches went out around the time Jane Fonda's workouts went out of fashion, and that lady is in her 60s now. Teachers or students without proper training (eg as a fitness instructor) who followed this book would be mislead into unsafe warm ups that risk injuring themselves and/or their students.I returned this book & got a refund.

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