You Can Bellydance: Absolute Beginner, with Neon: Beginner belly dance classes, belly dance instruction, belly dance how-to

This is a really fun DVD to do, clearly explained, and nicely broken down into steps. I haven't tried the fast dance yet... the slow one is challenging enough to start with! But she explains the core principles, like where you're facing and using your knees to get the moves, and the small sections for practice help you to buid up the full dance. The complete dance on a loop is a great feature too. The demonstration of dancing by Neon is lovely, but I wisdh the camera would stay in one place... belly dancing is meant to be seen from the front, not above!The main problem though is that it isn't truly an All Region DVD. My DVD player can't play it, although my PC DVD player can, and I like it enough to keep it to use there. But beware if you don't have a multi-region DVD player!

Have used this a couple of times. She s a good teacher and goes through the moves slowly and clearly.

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I bought this as a complete novice to belly dancing, I do like it although i couldn't find any 'warm up' exercises, so I would recommend one does a few warm up stretches before they start as the first time I had a go my back hurt afterwards!!!!! (if I could get to a class I would probably do that instead of this video!). I would if I could, change the background as Neon does the whole dvd in front of a stark, blinding white background. I think I will probably buy another dvd by someone else just to compare. I am glad I bought this dvd however as I'm sure I will with practice get better even though I have found it hard to follow the moves so far!!!

The DVD is very clear, simple and easy to follow for the absolute beginner. There are two dance versions, one slow and one fast. Neon first explains all the movements step by step, then there is a separate continuous dance section which goes on and on so you can dance as long as you like without having to reset your dvd. Ideal for a girls' night.