| | |  | Cheers & Marching Bands | Home » » » Bellydance - Tribal Fusion NYC | | | | | | | Description: | | Capturing the worldly, global, and futuristic vibe of New York City and inspired by the dashing diversity of New York's theater and dance, Tribal Fusion NYC offers instruction in the popular genre of Tribal Fusion bellydance sparkling with the vibrant urgency of the great metropolis. Created by NYC-based star soloist and instructor Darshan, the program blends the timeless aesthetics of bellydance with the urban edge of today's music and the many flavors of world dance. A vital feature of the program is an open-level dance workout designed to condition the body while reviewing the basics of bellydance technique and freestyle dance movement. Darshan emphasizes optimal carriage and alignment, and aims at conditioning the muscle groups that produce ease, effortlessness and precision in bellydance movement. The workout section includes Darshan's signature torso articulation drills and the upper body flexibility and articulation that makes Tribal Fusion style so distinct. In the instructional section of the DVD, Darshan introduces an emphasis on styling and expression, as she teaches pacing, restraint, and projecting the mystique of the dance. Darshan teaches four combinations step-by-step and the demonstrates them in one dance sequence easy to follow for practice. The combinations let you explore different substyles of Tribal Fusion Bellydance: Combination 1: Contemporary Tribal Fusion Combination 2: Tribalesque Combination 3: World Tribal Fusion (adding a salsa/samba flair to Tribal Fusion) Combination 4 is offered as a pattern for a contemporary-flair wide-stance switch transition that can be used between combinations. | | | Features: | |
• Capturing the worldly, global, and futuristic vibe of New York City and inspired by the dashing diversity of New York's theater and dance, Tribal Fusion NYC offers instruction in the popular genre of Tribal Fusion bellydance sparkling with the vibrant urgency of the great metropolis. Created by NYC-based star soloist and instructor Darshan, the program blends the timeless aesthetics of bellyda
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| Bellydance Tribal Fusion NYC | | Director:
| Darshan | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| StratoStream - World Dance New York | | Run Time:
| 85 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| February 20, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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 Disappointing - Better Choices out there ...Dec 30, 2009
I want to give this DVD more stars b/c Darshan is a great dancer & lovely human being ... but as an Instructional DVD it was a waste of money.
World Dance NY's more recent products have improved. This was one of their earlier efforts and suffers from terrible production.
In many of the scenes, the image of Darshan is super-imposed over a digitalized backdrop. Imagine small dancer image against spinning magenta or neon green spirals and trying to learn moves from that. It is just plain hard on the eyes. In fact, I watched this DVD once then gave it away b/c it literally hurt my eyes to watch. The psychedelic spinning backdrops reminded me of bad acid.
Darshan is wonderful ... but if you want a DVD to learn & practice dance ... I suggest Ariella, Elisheva, Anasama, or Love Potion DVDs which all have much better production.
Happy Dancing!
3 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Just plain BadMay 06, 2009
Hard to follow routines, no explaination on how to do the moves and frankly no incentive to want to do them. Boring. One for the trash can
 Awsome workoutApr 10, 2009
I love the way she warms up. You are dincing from the start. Excellent cueing by Darshan. It is easy to follow and tribal it is!
Changed My Mind about Tribal FusionOct 28, 2008
I am not a fan of Tribal Fusion, simply because a lot of local "tribal fusion" I've seen isn't a fusion of anything, it's just some inexperienced dancers throwing moves together and giving it that name.
I was very impressed with Darshan's fusion of distinct dance forms in this DVD. So obvious she's a really accomplished belly dancer, then she actually fuses belly dance with other known dance genres. Way to go Darshan!
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Very, very good for just past beginner.Oct 26, 2008
One small complaint about this: the way it is chaptered is confusing. I didn't realize that there was a whole workout on this, until the third time I looked at it. 'Dance Workout' is in much smaller letters on the marquee than the combinations are, which makes you think that 'Dance Workout' is a title heading over 'Combinations', instead of a separate part of the DVD.
That said, this is a really good just-past-beginner DVD. Right now, I'm at the stage where I have been doing very beginner DVDs, specifically World Dance New York's, "Luscious" and Jillina's, "Hip-Up-and-Shape-Out", which are beautiful absolute beginner DVDs. I had also gone through the technique section of Ayshe's World Dance DVD, "Bellydance for Core Fitness", had been practicing with Sera's, "Bellydance East Coast Tribal", and had occasionally ventured into Ariellah's, "Contemporary Bellydance and Yoga Conditioning."
So I started doing the, 'Workout' section of this, and thought, "Hey, I know how to do those hip pops, that's on Ayshe's technique section." And, "I know how to do the chest circles, Ariellah teaches that."
This is also great because it doesn't require huge amounts of endurance: I'm almost forty, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I don't yet have some of the physical strength or speed of some of the other dancers I've seen, which makes practicing with them very frustrating.
I could do almost all of this, and, watching Darshan's beautiful performance pieces, I felt like I was starting to be able to parse out what movement she was doing, all the while thinking, "Wow, that's impressive dance."
If you're trying to teach yourself at home, and you want to move beyond very basic beginner, but you're frustrated with the more complicated DVDs, this is a really inspiring middle ground.
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