Thread: BDSS Bombay Bellywood- instructional?

Anybody else seen this? Not completely sure what to think- half of me thinks "wow, must have, funfunfun!" and the other half thinks "yewhat?"
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00465I18S/...5920_pe_vfe_d8

I'm in the wooowooo! list. I added it to my Christmas list because I want it.

Well - I'd certainly want to see a trailer video first.
But the way the descrition sounds it doesn't have much to do with Bombay

MEISSOUN

I have no knowledge about Indian traditional dance or Indian temple dance.. but friends of mine who took classes some years ago said they trained for one entire semester with a strict middle-aged Indian lady basically learning the most basic poses, and not dancing at all (which disappointed them a little, so they switched to "Bollywood" dances).

Not that I ever felt I wanted to learn Indian temple dance, but it seemed to me this was an awfully difficult dance form with much preparation before one could "get dancin".. so is this "the real thing" and can it really be taught in a dvd with choreography immediately, or is this a fusion dance form incorporating some easier moves of Indian traditional dance? or maybe my friends' experience wasn't representative?

Arrrrrgh. ,m::

This is exactly what I was afraid of. As someone who has spent over a decade studying classical Indian dance and still doesn't feel qualified to teach or "fuse" it...

I dread the results when dancers will take this dvd and try to apply it or, worse, teach it.

Originally Posted by SomaBellydance

Arrrrrgh. ,m::

As someone who has spent over a decade studying classical Indian dance and still doesn't feel qualified to teach or "fuse" it...

ok this is more in the line of what my friends experienced ..l;,

Originally Posted by dinavienna

or maybe my friends' experience wasn't representative?

It was VERY representative. Recently my teacher has come up with the idea of giving us a special homework: repeat the same short dance combination slowly for 10 minutes so we could really work on every little detail and get it right. Try it! 10 min. is a bloody long time to repeat the same moves over and over again.
I have been doing Bharata Natyam for over 13 years and I still find that I can improve some of the basic step cominations I learned 13 years ago...

No way you could learn this in a DVD. Especially not without somebody correcting you.
I already see a lot of strange "Indian" fusion stuff around. I don't know if this DVD will help...

MEISSOUN