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Bellydance: The Next Level
Transitions, Turns & Layers
(Intermediate-Advanced Instructional DVD)
with Jenna

This DVD includes a warm-up, three practice routines, and two choreographies.

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Are you ready to take your bellydance to The Next Level?
You’ve mastered the basic movements, and now it’s time to dance! Most of the subtleties and nuances that show an advanced level in the art of bellydance are best learned by repetition-- the optimal way to achieve grace and fluidity, and to reach the comfort level of a professional dancer. The Next Level includes three sets of drills that, with repeated practice, will bring an ease to the more difficult movements and layers that add texture and dimensions to your dance. The program begins with a warm-up, and continues with the Hipwork and Upper Body Layering sections, each of which flow through variations of the standard isolations and undulations, adding layers such as shimmies and level changes, which will increase your control and range of motion over time. Explanation in these sections is minimal -- here you will learn by actually dancing!
Turns can be a challenge, but will bring an exciting and beautiful dimension of movement to your dance performance. Jenna breaks down some of the more dynamic and complex turns in a methodical, easy-to-follow manner. The turns are then arranged in yet another drill that walks you through each turn first, so that, with practice, you can feel totally comfortable adding them to your repertoire.
Jenna’s two original choreographies will give you a chance to implement many of the layers, turns and transitions you’ve practiced in the rest of the program, stringing them together into beautiful dances that you can make your own – add your personal style, express yourself, and have fun! The process offers more than just the end product of complete dances to perform – by learning the detailed sequences within each dance, your body will automatically become accustomed to many of the transitions used in bellydance to smoothly get you from one move to the next. As these transitions become second nature, you should find yourself bringing new movements and increased confidence to your dance improvisation as well. The first choreography, set to an upbeat saiidi-style piece with a short drum solo section, features percussive accents and shimmy layering. The second choreography is a solo oriental piece rich in musicality and filled with delicious details. Jenna performs each dance for you in different costumes, then breaks each combination down step-by-step with periodic repetitions, finally demonstrating the entire choreography facing the mirror so that you may follow along as if you are right there in the studio!
A cool-down is included to gently relax your muscles after you dance.

A customer writes...
"This practice dvd is top quality and is a keeper. I am very well beyond pleased. I must say that everything in the video has answered so many questions I had before! As usual, like on your other two instructionals the drills were well explained making them easy to follow no matter how challenging they may be. That's the main thing I loooove about your instruction style, and that I can tell that you are putting a TON of love & detail on what you do. It's the kind of instruction that makes me say AND feel that I CAN DO IT!" -EB, Washington, USA

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Bellydance Basics and Beyond DVD:
Techniques for a Solid Foundation
(Beginner Level Instructional DVD)
with Jenna

This 2 hour 20 minute instructional DVD is designed to introduce a wide range of basic movements and serve as a lasting companion to your bellydance journey!

Instruction:
First Posture and Basic Arms are addressed, truly the building blocks of beautiful dancing. After a short Warm Up, isolations, accents, circles, figure 8's and undulations of the hips, torso, shoulders and arms are each methodically broken down & explained. Like a thorough workshop, this extensive section will introduce the Basic Moves & Compound Moves for you to repeat & practice. Basic Footwork is also included, providing the steps in their simplest forms so they are easiest to absorb.

Practice Combinations :
Once you've gotten some of the moves under your belt, you can start working on the five Practice Sessions: Upper Body, Lower Body, Smooth Compound Moves, Traveling Combinations & Hands & Arms (includes Cool Down). You can use them one by one to focus on mastering different areas of the dance, and you can also combine them all together with the Warm-Up as a great 30-minute workout session that will improve the style and finesse of your dancing each time. If you can't follow all the steps right away, don't worry, you can always refer back to the instructional portion for review and keep building up your vocabulary of movement!

Performance:
The DVD offers a short dance by Jenna and some of her fantastic NYC students. The choreography was created by Jenna for her beginner classes to encompass different movements, accents and basic transitions, but these girls turned it into much more than an exercise! You can follow along & dance it too! The song "Layla" is from "Bellydancing for Fortune & Fame", available for purchase below.

A customer reviews Basics & Beyond....
Jenna; I appreciate so much the beauty of your work, and what a very, very kind and effective instructor you are. I carefully (as best I could guess at the time) invested in nearly 40 DVD's for my own education, and find yours at the very top of the list for ease of use, for value, for pure quality of information and presentation. Your grace as a dancer is a joy. Each of the isolations and movements are performed with Jenna's back to the camera, facing the mirror - which allows you to SEE foot placements and follow easily, as well as see how the moves look from the front. It saves you having to put up a mirror on the wall facing the tv, standing with your back to the tv and trying to watch it through the mirror. She uses very clear, specific instructions on body mechanics, including foot placements and weight changes, that help clear up any remaining mystery. Jenna's patient, open approach to her DVD students includes none of the cutesy cheering-leading often found in other instructionals, which can be pretty annoying after a few veiwings, especially if you aren't "getting it" yet. Nor will you find a lofty, superior tone. Instead her soft, well spoken discourse conveys the instruction in a friendly, all business manner. The breakdown section for study and review includes an ample amount of material - more than included in most instructional
DVD's, and is a well developed explanation and demonstration of each movement or series of movements. The review section kicks it up a notch with a faster paced practice series; while it is great fun, it is at the more challenging, so there's room to grow. Done with any regularity, the practice section - with its weight shifts from move to move - ingrain transition patterns which should make actual dancing come more naturally.
The DVD has excellent production values, with quality sound, and well placed camera work that is steady and systematic - without stylizations that detract from your ability to see each aspect of what's involved in the movement. At the end of the DVD, her group performance shows all different body and costume types, with a wonderful choreography for a beginning dancer with just enough challenge to make it interesting. Even better? Put down your remote, and rest your slow-motion-button finger, Jenna includes the transcription for the dance on her website! Hours saved, get straight learning to the choreography!
There are hundreds of instructional DVD's out there - I have many of them. And while each one has at least a few things to take with you, Jenna's Basics and Beyond is an outstanding learning tool which very, very few others can compare to, and none can replace. High praise is in order. Thank you Jenna!
-TD, Texas

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Instructional DVD:

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Another customer writes....
"It is one of the most complete dvds I've seen. It totally has a perfectionist's touch. You don't find half as much information in other dvds and so clearly taught".
-RV, NYC

FREE!! : : Click here to download Jenna's choreography notes for the "Layla" Dance on the Basics DVD in Microsoft Word

Read the review on Gilded Serpent on-line bellydance magazine!

Fun & helpful...
Michelle of Bowie, Maryland, created a funny song to help her students remember the steps of the first drum solo choreography taught in Jenna's Heartbeat of Bellydance DVD. She was kindn enough to share it with us, and we would like to share it with you ! Perhaps it can help you or your students learn the steps and have fun with it! Here it is....!

The Heartbeat of Bellydance DVD:
Rhythms & Dance Combinations for Drum Solos
(Beginner-Intermediate Instructional DVD)
featuring Raquy Danziger, drummer;
& Jenna, dancer

This DVD is packed full of useful tools (an hour & 25 minutes worth!) for learning and developing dancing to the tabla solo for all levels of bellydancer, from beginner to professional:

Instruction:
-Warm-up
-Jenna's drills to learn & improve traveling shimmies & shimmy layering
-Three complete darbuka solo choreographies explained & broken down, each for a different level of dancer: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. (Practice formats for choreographies are programmed in to the DVD, for optimal learning.)
-Explanation & demonstration of eight (8) different rhythms used with bellydancing: baladi, saiidi, malfuf, maqsoum, semai, çifte telli, ayoub, and masmoudi.

Performances:
-The three choreographies taught are performed by Jenna both in the studio so you to follow along, and in front of a live audience.
- Jenna demonstrates her improvisational skills to a live drum solo by Raquy & Carmine, using all of the rhythms explained in the instructional segment.

A customer writes...
"Your instructional in The Heartbeat covers so much that is a learning book for those of us who love bellydancing. The rythms demonstrated by Raquy Danziger in the drums and yourself in the practice makes such a difference in understanding a dance choreography as we recognize the different beats. Your professional approach makes it so easy to learn and motivates beginners, like me, to practice, practice, practice until reaching perfection so to speak. But I am sure that everybody beginners, intermediates, and pros find your video a wonderful source of learning as well asÊenjoyable." H.C., Philadelphia

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Bellydancing for Fortune & Fame CD:

This indespensible album by the Mogador Band contains the music tracks for the performance on Jenna's "Basics & Beyond" DVD as well as for the first 2 Drum Solo Choreographies on "Heartbeat of Bellydance".

Among the 17 tracks you'll find classic tunes in danceable arrangements such as: A Ya Zein, Bir Demet, El Samer, Ma Ali Wiolti Loo, Mastika,Rompi Rompi, Samra Ya Samra, Shisheler and more!

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The Golden Apple
Bellydance Stars of New York
(Performance DVD)
Features New York dancers Jenna, Neon, and Blanca with a guest appearance by Jehan Kamal and a middle-eastern Jazz.performance by Souren Baronian's Taksim trio.

In the DVD, Jenna dances her original choreography to Jehan's "Nassam Alayna" from her Taala Taal album with Youssef Kassab. She will also present 2 improvisational pieces with live music -- a drum solo with Mal Stein on doumbek, and "Lamma Bada Yata Sana", a beautiful Semai played by the Taksim trio. Additionally, Blanca joins Jenna & the musicians for a duet sword dance.
Total Running Time: 55 minutes

A customer writes..."I was just thrilled to view your performance on Bellydance Stars of New York. Your performance to El Hawa is worth the price just for that alone." M.C.B, Washington DC

"The Golden Apple: Bellydance Stars of New York" DVD is encoded for all regions, produced for NTSC system.

Also Available in a Russian Language edition. Contact Jenna to order...

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