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Archive for February, 2009
Seaon Stylist BootCamp: Salsa Dance Body Rolls
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Learn to Salsa Dance from Seaon Stylist. At http://www.StylistBootCamp.com, you'll learn many exciting patterns, techniques, tips, and tricks that'll spice up your salsa dancing to the extreme.
Duration : 4 min 21 sec
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Duration : 9 min 18 sec
Belly Dance – A Unique And Exciting Way To Exercise!
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In recent years, belly dancing has been catching on in the Western World. You can find classes in almost any city. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced, you can you find classes to meet your skill level. Even children can get in on the action!
Belly dancing started out as a dance tradition in the Middle East as a way to strengthen a woman’s hips for giving birth. Now, it has become a form of entertainment and exercise, as well as an art form.
It is not widely realized that the advanced dancers already know over thirty moves! The good news is there are no footsteps to remember if you are just learning. You learn how to move very isolated parts of the body in rhythm to music.
Movements of belly dancing are very isolated. Your hips will lift, thrust and shimmy while your belly rolls and your pelvic muscles tilt. Your arms will make snake like movements while your legs will either be shimmying one at a time or together in a double shimmy.
Once you have these and other movements mastered, you will put them to work in several positions, the basic and parallel positions as well as floor work that include dropping, sitting and then returning to a full stand. Also, you can’t forget about the veil work that comes into play.
Now you know why there is so much to learn! Some teachers may give these movements different names, they all reduce to the same thing – Very skilled moves. Body movements will be the same, however, no matter the name. Making the body shake, quake, curve, thrust, lock and drop. The arms and hands follow through with the movements in fluid motion. The belly remains exposed to show her control and strength.
The dancers costume will leave the belly exposed during the dance. This is to make it easier on the spectators, whether they are judges or patrons, to see how much control she has over her body. Also, the more skin that is exposed, the more sensual her movements become. It is very stimulating to watch a well-trained belly dancer display her art in this manor, with her hips and mid-drift exposed.
If you are going to take your belly dancing on to a more authentic level, you will want to make sure your costume is appropriate. The top should be almost like a bra with ornate beading and sequins for decorations. The bottoms can either be a full skirt or loose fitting shear pants.
Other accessories you will want to add are a belt that is weighted, bands for you wrist and/or arms, scarf and possibly finger-symbols. This may seem like a lot of decoration, but you want to make sure every part of your body is accentuated to show off the hard work you have put into mastering these moves.
On the other hand, belly dancing is a wonderful form of exercise and will make a great addition to your overall fitness routine. There are two basic steps to master if this is what you are after. The first is the all-important stretching. Using an exercise ball or yoga type stretches are ideal. The second is a group of basic belly dancing moves such as hip and shoulder movements along with abdominal, waist and thigh movements.
Make sure that if you plan on belly dancing during pregnancy, you check with your doctor. Because of the nature of the dance, it will have a different effect on your body than other types of prenatal exercise. It also may be prudent to get a second opinion to give you added peace of mind.
You want to make sure you workout four to five times per week, for thirty to forty minutes. Make sure that this is continuous activity and that you break a sweat. The cardiovascular effect will result in weight loss or control, if a healthy diet is used as well. These kinds of exercises release endorphins which are the ‘feel good’ hormone.
These are just a few of the reasons that belly dancing can be good for you. Also, if you take classes, it can be a source of friendship as well. But be careful that you don’t over do it. Be sure to drink your six to eight glasses of water a day and take your vitamins. This will help your body recover and get ready for a new workout tomorrow.
One of the places you can learn belly dancing is at a local dance studio. Check the local listings to see where they are offered. If you don’t want to try to learn this complex dance in public, you can find a multitude of information on the Internet, in books and from instructional videos or DVDs.
You can find classes and pricing at helenavlahos.com, and at visionarydance.com, you will find classes, DVDs and workshops. To complete your costume, check out home.earthlink.net. Rania Bossonis has a book written on the art of the belly dance.
Summary:
Belly dancing can be used for display or entertainment. Women, men and even children can find enjoyment and fitness in this art form, whether they are beginners or advanced or somewhere in between.
Brooke Hayles
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/belly-dance-a-unique-and-exciting-way-to-exercise-65547.html
Choosing The Right Video Games For Your Kids
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Video games can be selected by children by choosing a particular gaming platform, or by narrowing their game choices by a particular character that they find entertaining. Many of the popular characters that can be found in video games include Harry Potter, YU-GI-OH and Dragonball Z. The Star Wars selections will give another generation of space alien feature enthusiasts the chance to explore the galaxies in style, and create lifelong pals in many of the video games character roles that they avidly play regardless of the weather conditions outside.
Younger children can choose characters like Dora the Explorer, Curious George, Spiderman, or take to exploring the Lord of the Rings trilogies in amazing detail. Little girls have fun with video games that focus on the Bratz doll collection, or they find Jimmy Neutron very appealing, and play his video games for hours on end if their parents will allow them to.
Many children are captivated by the brightly colored antics that are presented through the adventures of SpongeBob Squarepants video games. This yellow spongy character wearing designer underwear styles csan be found handsomely designed in any type of outfit, along with his equally colorful sidekick, Patrick in many video games whose titles take him through one level of adventure after the other.
Video games provide children with a form of entertainment that they can enjoy by themselves in the comfort of their living room, or in the privacy of their bedroom. Parents create recreation rooms where children can spread out dancing mats out on the floor to test their musical talents.
While some children enjoy stomping on the floor using their feet to create a rhythmic beat that is uniquely all their own, other children enjoying using steering wheel accessories and spend hours racing a variety of sports cars through city streets in time trials that violate most city speed laws. When police cars are in hot pursuit of these speed violators, children will quickly realize the importance of obeying the laws of the highways.
Parents need to realize that video games come ready for play and are packaged for sale to many different age groups. Some video games are not suitable for young children, and parents should pay particular attention to video games that are rated for Mature audiences. These video games are a bit racy, violence oriented and may feature blood and gore that many small children can not rationalize in their wildest imaginary efforts.
Overall, video games are a good source of entertainment that parents can easily control. Many of the video game consoles are very portable and are the perfect thing to have in the car to occupy a child’s mind when they are traveling on vacation or other trips that require many hours in the car.
Families can spend many hours playing video games with their children and see the world through their eyes for a short time. This type of familiar family interaction is very important and shows kids that their parents can be fun and exciting, and gives children the opportunity to consider that perhaps they will allow their parents to win a video game once in a while.
Stacey Day
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/choosing-the-right-video-games-for-your-kids-126891.html
i posted to dance videos of me doing jabbawockeez and no one is commenting them but there are lots of room and i promise if you go comment them ill subscribe you and comment you bak on ur videos please!
This is very interesting, would like to know what was you inspiration for this video. Are you using it as part of a dance routine you are putting together?
Lordy, I’ve been looking for hours for a simple toddler dancing video, Not an instructional video, just some kids under 3 dancing to nursery rhymes, No adults dancing, like the Wiggles and No purple dinosaurs dancing….Suggestions?
I’m sure YouTube has loads
Dance! Party Video Collection (Import) (DVD)
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses PC Game
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Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses is the story of Barbie as Genevieve, 1 of 12 sisters who live happily with their father the king. Concerned that the high-spirited, independent princesses need more structure to become proper princesses, the king invites his cousin, the Duchess Rowena to move into the castle. Rather than help, Rowena forbids the sisters from singing and dancing and squelches their individuality. The princesses discover a magical enchanted world and escape the tyranny of Rowena. But when Genevieve learns that their father’s life is in danger, the sisters must unite to save the king and their kingdom.
Evolution of Dance
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ABBA Dancing Queen 1976
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