| | |  | Ice Dancing | Home » » » Learn to Ice Dance Vol. 1 | | | | | | | Description: | | This instructional ice dance video features the following compulsory ice dances: Dutch Waltz, Canasta Tango, Rhythm Blues, Cha-Cha, Swing Dance, Fiesta Tango, BONUS Preview: Hickory Hoedown.
Designed to complement your own learning and practice, Learn to Ice Dance Vol. 1 breaks down the steps to each dance in slow motion with narration, explains basic partner holds and new steps for each dance, reviews timing information, and provides a visual layout of each dance pattern on the ice.
U.S. national competitors Terri Levine and Mike Ricigliano team up on this video to provide for you a top-notch visual demonstration of the preliminary and pre-bronze compulsory pattern ice dances of the U.S. Figure Skating test structure.
Bring your skating lessons to the comfort of your living room, and improve your ice dancing to look like a champ - this video will show you how! | | | Features: | |
• Instructional ice dance video
• Dutch Waltz, Canasta Tango, Rhythm Blues
• Cha-Cha, Swing Dance, Fiesta Tango
• Bonus preview: Hickory Hoedown
• ice dancing DVD
| | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| DVD, Color, NTSC | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Good idea but disappointing executionApr 21, 2011
By Theorist
I was excited to buy this DVD. I hoped it would be a fabulous supplement to a real coach. Sadly, I was disappointed.
The idea behind the DVD is solid, and the production quality is fine. The DVD goes through the most basic of ice dancing's traditional 'compulsory dances' a couple of times, and it gives some hints on what to focus on.
Sadly, the skating is wooden. The skaters in this DVD just don't have the style or ease of performance needed for a good tuition DVD, and they lack passion or emotion in their skating.
The DVD may also be frustrating for those outside the USA, as the dances follow the test sequence there. The test levels in other countries share some of these dances, but not all.
For those who love anything ice dance, you'll want to add this DVD to your collection.
But for those who are wanting a good tuition DVD to supplement their on-ice lessons with a coach, you'd be far better off looking out for the Usova & Zhulin DVD put out by the ISU some years back. Another alternative is to go and search on the internet for footage of the top skaters doing the compulsory dances at events like the Olympics, Worlds and the US Nationals. Sadly 'compulsories', as we knew them, have now been deleted from top level competitions by the ISU, so ice dance students won't have a constant stream of new examples coming their way. Nonetheless, you can surely do better than this DVD if you're seriously interested in learning ice dance.
What we really need is a top couple like Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir to put together a 'How-To Ice Dance' DVD. Torvill & Dean did one once, the Usova & Zhulin. A version by the current Olympic champions would be wonderful!!!
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