Student Resources: Video Recommendations
Video reviews by other dancers can be found on these sites (no need to reinvent the wheel). We have read the reviews and have agreed with the reviewers so we are confident about referring you to their opinion.
Videos we were happy we purchased?
- Instructional video: Kahreen and Kira with the Kismet dancers have just put out an instructional video. We purchased ours through Baladi Boutique... they are just amazing dancers and instructors. We love them very much. :)
- Instructional video: Jasmin Jahal's Reach for the Stars. It is a solid video to practice your moves with, and her warm up just might wear you out. I like it because everyone needs to be run through the basic moves for practicing.
- Instructional video: Delilah's beginner video Absolute Beginning Belly Dance with Delilah. All of her videos are great, but some of them are really advanced and someone new to belly dancing could get discouraged quite easily. As you progress through classes we can suggest the next set of tapes for you. We are a total fan of Delilah and we use all her tapes. :)
- Instructional video: Neena & Vina. All of the videos in the series are great workout videos, but not that great for learning dance moves. They are a good between classes as a supplement for doing practice/workouts.
- Performance video: The Best of Dancers from Raja Productions (slightly dated and cheesy, but it is a tape of excerpts containing just the good part of many performances) If you purchase the Best of Dancers tape, be careful if you purchase any of the other Raja tapes. Many of the tapes are different edits of the same footage. I don't think the tapes were meant to be purchased in a series.
- Performance video: We also love all of the Festival on the Nile performance tapes. It is great to see local performers year after year. You can watch the progression of the students into pros.
Note: Most belly dancing videos *start* at $30.00, don't waste your money on a video without checking them out. Together Mahsati and Cerice have many hundreds of dollars worth of videos they will never look at again. If you are looking at a particular video you want to purchase check with us first. We may already have have it or at least have seen it.