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Fantasy Belly dance-Magic
This is one of a series of three performance dvd with New York based Belly Dance artists/performers. Each dancer offers a performance, the story which interprets it, and a complete breakdown of choreography. Each performance is unique, mysterious, and yet educational and spellbinding.
The enchantress-Autumn Ward
This dance has it all, beautifully choreographed depicting the energy around us and there is plenty of it in this choreography. Autumn Ward dances as if controlling magic forces, spirits, possessions and yet she allows your imagination to run free as you may interpret her dance as you wish.
The choreography includes moderate whirling, heavy hip and chest accenting, amazing floor work, great zilling, all to create a beautiful enchanting dance.
Warrior princess-Isadora Bushkovski comes along to present a simple, yet classy sword choreography depicting the inner battles in a dance of circles celebrating the triumph of the dancer. Her vision of sword dancing is broad and open to healing inner wounds in a display of strength. Here is a beautiful dance with a hint of martial arts slyly woven in.
Isadora includes her interpretation and choreography along with tips on body conditioning for sword dance, and much more.
Kali-Creator and Destroyer-Arrielah Her dance is a display of energy to the mother goddess with energy enough to destroy and create, energy exuding from the mind, the body, and flowing into the fingertips reaching to draw you in . This is tribal style dance/with gothic hints. Arrielah's dance is rich in fluid precision and to those of us who love tribal, there is a choreography breakdown as well.
Overall, a very entertaining, and educating series of performances each with a flavor of their own, all built on the basic foundation of belly dance yet when taken into different visions, are a creation totally distinctive of each other. Amazing work!
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This is my favorite in the series of 3! The costumes are incredible, and the dancing phenomenal, ranging from wild abandon to very controlled. I, for one, really enjoy seeing both, and you get both on this DVD!
Autumn's routine is entitled "Enchantress", and she plays the part well. She is stunning in her green and brown costume and her wavy red hair. Her dance, in some spots, recalls the art of mime combined with dance, which is visually engaging. I say engaging because appealing does not always apply in this performance, as the image of someone pulling something out of her throat and grinding it up with a mortar and pestle is not what I'd call appealing, but very appropriate for the character portrayed. I loved it! The instruction is clear if you are up to the intermediate level.
Isidora teaches a powerful sword dance. She gives tips on finding the right sword, keeping safe, and getting ready to dance with the sword. She wears a fabulous red costume that I believe includes wide-legged pants instead of a skirt. This section of the DVD will be a must for my students who wish to bear arms!
Ariellah teaches a dance entitled "Kali". If you know nothing of Kali, look up Kali or Kali Ma. The dance will make more sense if you know. I loved the dominatrix-esque costume. Ariellah is easy to follow and the dance is very enjoyable.
I'm going to take this with me when I visit Mom. I think she will enjoy seeing it, too!
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I like the performances on this dvd. I agree alot with the first reviewer on her synopsis so I won't say much. The only thing I really wanted to say is I think Isidora is fantastic!! Every routine I see her perform is so full of character and charm. She is fast becoming one of my favorites. If you like her as much as I do, she is also on the Temptation of Bellydance dvd. I would recommend that one. Ariellah and Autumn were fun to watch also. I enjoyed this dvd the most out of the three in this series.
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The "Magic" DVD of the Fantasy Bellydance series consists of three intermediate/advanced dance choreographies based on an esoteric, archetypal character or concept- an enchantress, a warrior princess, and a dark goddess. Each dancer gives her interpretation and inspiration behind each dance but also encourages the at-home-dancer to take the choreography and interpret it, to make it your own.
Each choreography segment is broken down into:
- a costumed performance
- the story behind the choreography
- Demonstration
- Complete step-by-Step breakdown of choreography (with repetitions and
cues).
(Note: You need to already have a foundation in bellydance. The choreography is broken down but not to extreme detail of each movement -ex: how to do a figure eight, hip square, etc.)
The instruction is straightforward and easy to understand. There is plenty of repetition also, so you can practice each combination as you learn each part of the complete dance. Isidora's section gives alot of great tips for the sword, from how to strengthen your movements to how to handle the sword. The "Warrior Princess" also includes some nice martial art movements, it gives the dance a powerful mood. I LOVED Autumn Ward's interpretation of the Enchantress. Her dance has a feminine, earthly quality that captivates. Autumn also does some fantastic zill-work. Unfortunately, she does not cover how to play the zill patterns along with the dance. Not a big deal, but it would have been helpful. Ariellah's "Kaili" is fantastic--she flows like a dark vapor.
Overall, I felt this is an excellent DVD---Great dancers, instruction, choreographies, music, and production quality. It definitely has inspired me to try something new. If you are looking for something outside the box of the typical bellydance choreography, this would be a fun DVD to try.
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Please read my reviews on the other 2 DVD's in this series.
Pro's: At 2 hours, a great value. I love the fact it teaches a bit of everything in the series--sword, isolations/tribal fusion, gothic, wings, hand veil, etc. The instruction is always clear from the instructors, the quality is very good. Also, while there are no choreographies I said, "I MUST learn that," there were several things from each one that I can use, which is great.
Con's: Only one, in the fact that the camerawork during the performance, such as Ariellah's, shows the rigging for the lights and backdrop...meant to be shown but my ADHD brain just refocuses on it.
Autumn Ward is the Enchantress. Her costume is like Gaia, with Mother Nature themes--a flesh colored underlayer with green leaves and a woven overlayer. Pretty work intensive! The choreography has a great rising up from the floor, but in the performance, as my son was watching it, he simply said, "Like a tree in an earthquake." May be the best summation (as opposed to a Nell-ish "tree in the wind"). I haved liked Autumn's work very much, and I understand this is fantasy bellydance, but there is some pretty serious shaking (not shimmying, but an arms/torso swaying) at some points. However, there is also a sudden punctuation of a pulling in of the abdomen, drawing up the knee, that is beautiful and poetic. I just can't get into the wild abandon movements. A good comparison would be Laura Rose on the Gothic BD II DVD, but a bit faster. Her expressions are very good as well, and like with all instructors, her teaching is clear. However if this is your first time seeing Autumn and you did not bond with the performance, check out her drum solo work.
Isidora Bushkovski is a great dancer, and here is the Warrior Princess. Granted, check out her Dueling Banjo's on You Tube, and you get a taste of her sense of humor. It is great to have a sword dance taught on DVD along with other things, and to watch her eyebrows and face during the dance adds a level of levity to it, which is not seen so much in fusion.
It is also good to see how she controls the sword when it starts to spin, and how her fingers never cover the blade bit.
Ariellah is Kali, destroyer and creator. I love her yoga DVD, and her performances are amazing on the other DVD's by WDNY. I did not get a sense of Kali from the music choice (Corvus Corax's Fili Neihardii), but the dance is visually interesting, the choreography has lots of usable parts, and Ariellah is a very good instructor, clear and concise. She's beautiful to watch on film as well as live.
Each dancer, by the way, gives the story behind the creation of the dance, which is a way to get a behind the scenes look at the creation of a dance as well as get inspired for ways to look at a song for your own choreography.
Great DVD series, and great DVD.
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