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• Seven Veils is beginner bellydance instruction that will teach you how to perform a romantic dance for a special occasion. Whether it is a birthday party or a personal, romantic evening, this program will teach you the skills and give you the entertainment ideas you need to make your special event unforgettable. Sarah Skinner, renowned for her passionate, glamorous, evocative dance, teaches you
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Sarah Skinner | | Director:
| Sarah Skinner | | Format:
| Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| StratoStream - World Dance New York | | Run Time:
| 60 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| July 29, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful veil dvd!Jul 30, 2008
By Shara of Desert Dance
Sarah begins with an introduction to veils, including some of the fabrics and types of edging that can be used. She then demonstrates several ways to wear the veils. She shows you how to wear the veils for the choreography she teaches. The choreography is beautiful and easily followed. Sarah is beautiful and a pleasure to watch. Follow along with her and you will be beautiful in your dance! Sarah demonstrates how to make an economical costume for yourself out of a bra, mirrors, trim, glitter glue and necklaces. The performances on this video are lovely. Sarah not only performs the choreography taught, but also performs "Salome's Sin" with a chorus of other beautiful dancers. This DVD would be suitable for beginners that have a grasp of most of the basic moves, but it is also appealing for any dancer that loves veils, great music, a little theatrics, and simply elegant choreography.
Sarah wears some gorgeous costumes on this DVD. She is a talented costume designer as evidenced in the costume she designed for the front cover. I found this to be a very enjoyable DVD.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Fun, beautiful, good for beginners.Sep 13, 2008
By Lisa M. Mims
Sarah starts this with a history lesson about the origin of the dance of the seven veils. (This dance has its origins in the marriage of Harrod to his brother's wife. His stepdaughter Salome is actually doing the dance. There is also some discussion of the origin of the veils; they may be symbolic of the seven deadly sins, and their removal symbolizes showing one's true self.)
After the biblical storytelling, Sarah shows you what kinds of veils that you will need and how they should be held or placed in your costume. The instruction progresses to how to dance with the veils.
The instruction is very clear, and Sarah has a good sense of humour that helps the instruction along. The dance itself is inventive, impressive, and doesn't actually take that much bellydance skill.
This would be a good purchase for a dancer who wants to be able to perform something impressive without a lot of prior experience. If you can count, you can probably do this dance. It's really imaginative, and looks a lot more difficult than it really is.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Soft,sensual veil dance, so feminine!!!Aug 17, 2008
By Seir
Sarah skinner-Romantic Belly Dance Seven Veils
Before writing a review, I was determined to learn the entire contents of this dvd. At great length, I did so and my reward has been an enrichment to my dance language, increased fluidity, sensuality in floor work while improving on basic veil tricks.
The floor work in this program is exquisitely performed by Sarah Skinner. In brief, Sarah marvels her audience as she goes through her 7 veils, without heavy draped on fabrics, but rather making great use of kerchiefs which are just as effective and flirty.
The romantic bellydance dvd has in content:
Sarah welcomes her audience by sharing her interpretation of the famous story of Salome and the 7 veils as redone by Oscar Wilde, the number seven coming into a curious play and interpreted into a personal vision; a brief history of veils, types of fabrics and varying lengths..
For this great, fun veil dance program, you will need:
3 long veils, 4 kerchiefs in varying sizes; (as you will learn how to drape yourself.)
Included also in the program:
*Upper body warm up, beautiful hand and arm articulations
*Spine and torso warm up, proper posture
*Hip movement using inner core muscles
*A segment devoted to floor work, how to change levels using hipwork, cute flirty tricks on the floor
*Veil tricks and switches, cascades and a beautiful choreography integrating all of the above.
*A complete step through into the choreography with Sarah guiding gently and thoroughly beginning with the first veil and to end with veil seven.
*Great tips on using the veil to interact with the audience
*How to decorate a bra top, head piece and much more!
There is so much packed into this great program. In addition, enjoy a sultry and playful choreography with Sarah and Dancers.
A very thorough veil program, for the beginner, or those well versed, there is much to learn. The material presented in a fun approachable manner.The costuming is gorgeous, the music is drawing, captivating, and lending to the dance of veils as you flow back in time to a time of Salome and her dance of the seven veils.....
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 PrettyJun 16, 2011
By jodie
Again, this artist puts out such beautiful videos. The costumes are beautiful, the setting is goregeous. These are things that a lot of videos don't have and I really enjoy this kind of beauty. While i enjoyed the presentation and the way this artist expresses her intention, i did not enjoy the choreography. However, this is a great video for getting the imagination going and creating your own story. This is a good DVD for begginers who would like to transiton from basic movement into dancing with a veil. All levels of dancers may be interested in the imagination this artist taps into.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Nice details on making costumesJan 05, 2012
By apriles78
"aes78"
Sarah Skinner is a talented costume artist and performer. She has an approachable style of teaching belly dance. This DVD teaches a fun routine with veils and even shows you how to make the veils and create your own costume. You also get to see Sarah Skinner perform. The major flaw with this video (hence the four stars rather than five) is that it presents macabre details about John the Baptist's murder that are not only historically inaccurate, but offensive. There really is no connection between belly dance and Salome's dance, and tying belly dance to gruesome murder just ruins the fun. It really reminded me of making light of the deaths of those who died by guillotine in the French revolution. This is the 21st century and our art should have progressed beyond tasteless ridicule of those who have been oppressed and murdered. Just because something evil happened in past doesn't make it funny. It would be like making fun of the holocaust or the Armenian genocide. Those segments referring to Herod and Salome and showing representations of John's bloody head on a charger should just be removed. If I had the ability to import the video and cut those parts out, I would, since the rest of the video is really quite good.
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