- Street Release Date: November 1, 2007
- Professional and easy to follow for beginners
- Filmed in HD/Multiple Camera Views / PIP Technology
- All-Region Encoding
- Dolby AC-3 Audio Track
Product Description
Dance Lessons 101 is the best starting point for Ballroom, Country, Swing, and Latin Dancing. This DVD is proof you can learn to dance without live lessons! You will be dancing the Slow Dance, Waltz, Swing, Salsa, Two-Step, Cha-Cha, Hustle, and West Coast Swing in a matter of minutes. Also referred to as the Ultimate Couples Dancing Instruction Video for Beginners, Dance Lessons 101 was designed and developed with the end-user in mind. Customer feedback received fro… More >>
#1 by Luke K. on August 2, 2010 - 9:03 am
This is a great DVD if you want a BRIEF overview of the dances. This is not a dance instruction video, just a video to get you acquianted with the different dances. If you actually want to learn how to dance, look elsewhere
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Frank J. DeFelice on August 2, 2010 - 11:20 am
This might get you interested enough to take lessons with a good instructor. You can pick up a step in two minutes, but you’ll forget it by the next day. Learning steps is simple. Even a child can do it. But recognizing the music, getting on the dance floor and actually dance through a series of moves, takes months or years. Staring at your feet is NOT a plus. Good dancers can dance and carry on a conversation at the same time. People who learn just steps look like robots.
Dancing is an art form. Don’t make a fool of yourself, just to save a few bucks.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by L. Brown on August 2, 2010 - 1:09 pm
Good for beginners. Really basic dance steps, he keeps pluging other videos by him on specific dances. It feels little like sample dance lession.
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by N. Gerzhgorina on August 2, 2010 - 2:59 pm
Beware – this is rather social than professional training. I recently started taking ballroom dance classes, and this DVD is a bit different from competitive dancing. If you’re still a beginner, but have already taken a few classes before, this will be too basic and boring for you.
Pros:
Slow-paced explanation, so you don’t feel overwhelmed and ready to quit. They repeat each move quite a few times making it easy to memorize.
Cons:
Shawn Trautman, the instructor, does most of the talking while referring to the male audience more than to the female. The lady only makes a few comments now and then. I’d rather that they had no “picture-in-picture technology” because what’s supposed to be a close-up picture is only about 110% larger than the one in the background. So when the two pictures are squeezed into the screen space, both become small. Also it would help if at least some of the moves were shown while the instructors were turned away from the camera – the same direction the audience is facing. And yes, they do talk a lot, which would be OK if they didn’t stop dancing while talking.
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by A. Lutz on August 2, 2010 - 3:13 pm
Very Basic lessons by a likable teacher.
Not all Dances covered.
Great price
Rating: 4 / 5