Learn to Dance New York Style Hustle Three DVD Set

[gallery] This three DVD set is a complete course in the New York style hustle from the basic step to advanced figures suitable for competition. No prior dance experience is required. Though suitable for the complete beginner, intermediate and advanced dancers will benefit from the expert styling tips and the extra cool advanced patterns. As with many dances, in the hustle, the key to looking good is in the styling. In these videos, world champions Billy and Katie explain their winning style. As a bonus, a slow practice music clip is provided on disc #2 so that you need not purchase music in order to practice. This classic three-DVD set has long been considered to be best in class and it is probably the best selling hustle course ever offered. It s also a bargain, now selling at about half the price of a few years ago. The cost is less than the typical cost of one private dance lesson. More than thirty figures are explained. The first two videos serve as a syllabus, showing the most important and popular hustle figures figures that every hustle dancer should master. Billy and Katie hold the following titles: 1999 United States Hustle Dance Champions, 2000 US Open Swing Cabaret Champions, 2000 IDO World Salsa Silver Medalists, 2000 IDO World Merengue Silver Medalists, 2002 IDO World Cabaret Exhibition Champions, 2002 IDO World Disco Hustle Champions, 2002 NADC Cabaret Champions.

Hustle 101 (Shawn Trautman Dance Instruction)

You don't need a leisure suit to bring the best of the disco hustle to life in you living room with Shawn and Joanna Trautman's Hustle 101. Step out with style and get your feet moving to the disco beat as Shawn and Joanna guide you through the basic steps, beginner moves, and style secrets that make 3 count disco hustle one of the most popular dances of all time. Hustle 101 features Shawn Trautman Instruction. Shawn Trautman Instruction describes an approach to dance lessons that removes the frustration and leaves the fun as you learn the fundamental steps, moves, and patterns for each dance. If you've never danced, Hustle 101 will give you a taste for the disco side of couples dancing. If you are a proficient dancer who is looking to add Hustle to his or her repertoire, Shawn and Joanna give a fun, clear, and well-paced overview of what makes Hustle pop and tips that will help you apply what you already know about dancing to Hustle and get moving in a matter of minutes.

Learn to Dance: Hustle Volume 1

One hundred minutes of content! More than 30 patterns! Great patterns for social dancing or for competition. This video is fully suitable for the complete beginner, but it goes on to show many intermediate and advanced patterns. Hustle is the perfect dance for dance-beat, nightclub music. It's easy to learn and can be danced everywhere: ballrooms, nightclubs, Latin clubs, parties, and wedding receptions. In this video we start at the very beginning, the very first step. Although this video is suitable for the complete beginner, it has enough material to carry you to an advanced level. In fact, you will be ready to begin competing in hustle contests if you learn all these patterns and techniques in this video. We teach the three-count hustle, also known as the syncopated hustle or the New York hustle, which is the most popular type of hustle danced today. This is also the style used in all of the major hustle competitions today. We count the first 14 patterns using both of the two counting systems in use today: &1, 2, 3 and 1, 2, &3. At the end of the video, we teach four count hustle, also known as four count swing. The instructors, Joe, Sarah, and Patricia are former dance competitors. To see our other videos, search using The Dance Store.

Swing Dancing Starter Pack (3-DVD Set - Beginner 1, Beginner 2, and Intermediate 1) (Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection)

The Swing Dancing Starter Pack is for any beginner dancer who is looking for a firm foundation in Swing Dance fundamentals as well as several cool and completely leadable combinations to keep your feet tapping to the music. Order today to take the dance floor by storm! If you are looking to learn from a proven instructor with innovative techniques specifically for beginners, this is the right set for you. With 3-DVDs and over 4hrs of material, you will find this series to be extremely logical and easy to go through. Key features of this set include multiple camera angles, picture-in-picture formatting, extended practice time with music alongside the instructors, and reviews that help put everything together for you. If you are serious about wanting to learn Swing, this is the only investment you will need to make. * Street Release Date: November 15, 2006 * Professional and easy to follow for beginners * 3-DVD Set includes over 4hrs of top-ranked Instruction * One-on-One Training with Proven Instructors

Learn To Swing Dance, Beginners Volume 2: A Beginners Swing Dancing Guide to East Coast and City Swing

This is the second half of your complete Beginners Guide to Learn How to Swing Dance! Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 left off (find Swing Dance Volume 1, also on Amazon). . . And then takes you through the remaining beginner Swing Dance steps and patterns. It's fun, easy, and progressive, so hop on board and join us as you cultivate and improve your Swing Dancing skills. Join DanceCrazy as you brush up on your understanding of the principles of timing and footwork. You'll learn more and more patterns, steps, and techniques that'll allow you to move on to an intermediate level of social Swing Dancing! Get into some of the more popular and complex basic Swing steps and learn a few fun patterns too! All on this simple and step by step beginners DVD. Learn what to do, and what will look good out in the real world. DVD menus let you go back and review! Designed from the ground up as a true beginner's dance instructional video, this DVD (The second of a 2 DVD Series available on amazon.com) guarantees that no experience is required. Two left feet? No rhythm? No Problem! This swing dancing DVD series is for you. You'll be showing off some amazing Swing Dance steps in no time at all. "There's no other DVD series that is this in depth, this step by step, or this fun..." Swing has earned its reputation as one of the most versatile and energizing forms of popular music and continues to attract new converts to its catchy tunes and syncopated beats. This completely full, two hour dance instruction video take you from your very first steps in swing dance, and teaches a solid foundation from which to become an amazing swing dancer. Your experienced Swing dancing instructors take the time to break each pattern down thoroughly, providing you with essential information on technique, style, and connection. Not only are your dance teachers, Eldon and Alison clear and accurate, but they also making learning to Swing fun and exciting! It's time to learn a great skill, have a fantastic time, and dazzle your friends. Once you begin, you won't be able to stop dancing Swing! You'll learn how to Swing Dance with ease and style... An absolute must have for anyone interested in Swing Dancing. Note: This is part of of a two part swing dancing instructional series, find part two also available on amazon.com. DanceCrazy and SalsaCrazy also have a whole line of instructional dance DVDs and videos available on amazon. WHAT IS ON THIS DVD? Here is the listing of the moves you will learn on this instructional swing DVD: 1. Hammerlock (7 parts) 2. Women's tuck & spin (6 parts) 3. The arm slide (4 parts) 4. He goes, she goes (6 parts) 5. The dip (3 parts) 6. Dance sequence (2 parts) 7. And more! Each step is broken down for leaders, followers, dance together, with music, and special tips. This special attention to your dancing will make you look great on the dance floor.

East Coast Swing vol 1 - Learn the Basics & More (Swing Dance Lessons DVD)

[gallery] Learn How to Swing Dance right from home using our proven 3-step System! Swing Dancing is an awesome way to meet people & socialize while having fun at the same time. Don't let this opportunity pass you by...order your copy today & step by step we'll teach you how to be the dancer everyone wants to dance with! You'll feel comfortable learning how to swing dance from Dean & Dawn Garrish who are Champion Dancers & Instructors that have been teaching and competing for over 25 years. Dean & Dawn have won 2 UCWDC World Titles, 6 US Open Swing Titles & over 50 Top Teacher Awards. Dean & Dawn make it fun to learn with an easy, non-intimidating style. With this volume, you can enjoy learning the following: Introduction to East Coast Swing 1 - Timing, Basic & Rotating the Basic 2 - Outside & Inside Turns 3 - She Turns - He Turns 4 - Alternating Underarm Turns 5 - Post Turns, Wrap In & Wrap Out 6 - Sliding Door & Shoulder Taps with a Freespin 7 - Turning Lindy Basic & Toss Across 8 - Putting It All Together BONUS - Tips from the Champions BONUS - Practice Music Section for you to practice what you've learned We also use computer-generated graphics to help make learning quicker and clearer too. It's like having Dean & Dawn for a private East Coast Swing lesson at your house anytime you wish. Now, due to popular demand, we're proud to make this how to East Coast Swing DVD available. You can learn from the Champions at home, at your own pace and when you have time. Save a great deal of money over private lessons too! Dean & Dawn can help you learn or improve more dances with our other DVDs such as West Coast Swing Vol 1, Cha Cha Vol 1, Two Step Vol 1 and Night Club Vol 1 (also known as Nightclub Two Step) . We would love to have you join us and hope to see you on the dance floor soon! Customers outside of the USA please note: This DVD is an Instructional DVD in NTSC format and in the English language for Personal Use Only. All Rights Reserved.

East Coast Swing Intermediate-Advanced

Instructional DVD teaches East Coast Swing. Instructors are top competitors and UCWDC grand champions. Tons of cool moves are shown. Many are suitable for social dancing, many are suitable for competition dancing.

Learn To Dance Swing, Beginners Vol.1 - A Beginners Swing Dancing Guide to East Coast and City Swing

Swing Dancing - One of the single most prolific styles of dance, you'll find it everywhere. Get ready to swing dance with DanceCrazy's extensive introduction to Swing Dancing, a 2 DVD Series! This is the first of two DVDs, and covers the fundamentals of the dance, as well as a few beginner patterns. If you can't help tapping your feet to the amazing rhythms you hear in Swing music (think Count Basie, Duke Ellington, or Ella Fitzgerald) then this step by step dance instructional DVD is for you! Designed from the ground up as a true beginner's dance instructional video, this DVD (The first of a 2 DVD Series available on amazon.com) guarantees that no experience is required. Two left feet? No rhythm? No Problem! This swing dancing DVD series is for you. You'll be showing off some amazing Swing Dance steps in no time at all. "There's no other DVD series that is this in depth, this step by step, or this fun..." Swing has earned its reputation as one of the most versatile and energizing forms of popular music and continues to attract new converts to its catchy tunes and syncopated beats. This completely full, two hour dance instruction video take you from your very first steps in swing dance, and teaches a solid foundation from which to become an amazing swing dancer. Your experienced Swing dancing instructors take the time to break each pattern down thoroughly, providing you with essential information on technique, style, and connection. Not only are your dance teachers, Eldon and Alison clear and accurate, but they also making learning to Swing fun and exciting! It's time to learn a great skill, have a fantastic time, and dazzle your friends. Once you begin, you won't be able to stop dancing Swing! You'll learn how to Swing Dance with ease and style... An absolute must have for anyone interested in Swing Dancing. Note: This is part of of a two part swing dancing instructional series, find part two also available on amazon.com. DanceCrazy and SalsaCrazy also have a whole line of instructional dance DVDs and videos available on amazon.

Learn to Dance Carolina Shag Volume 1

The Carolina Shag is the perfect dance for beach music, oldies, and rhythm and blues. It's easy to learn and can be danced in a variety of social settings, including ballrooms, nightclubs, parties, wedding receptions, and vacation cruises. In this video we start at the very beginning, the very first step. Although this video is designed for the complete beginner, it has enough material to carry you to an advanced level. In fact, you will be ready to begin competing in shag dance contests if you learn all the patterns and techniques in this video. The instructors, Ricky and Christina, are top shag dance competitors. With twice the content of most instructional videos, this video shows a truckload of figures for social dancing or for competition. This video contains all of the most popular and most essential shag dance figures. Mainly developed in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Carolina shag is the official state dance of South Carolina. The Carolina shag is a slotted swing dance similar in many ways to west coast swing and jitterbug. The shag derives from the jitterbug and the Lindy hop, which date to the 1920 s. DVD Features: 1) Twenty figures plus many variations and combinations. 2) Detailed close-ups of the footwork shot from behind allow follow-the-leader learning. 3) Beautiful broadcast quality digital video. Length: 80 minutes. Region-free, 4:3 format.

Learn to Dance Carolina Shag Volume 2

If you know the basics of the Carolina Shag, then you are ready for this video. This is a great companion video to our Carolina Shag Volume 1 video. Together they create a great foundation and they capture the most popular and essential dance figures in the Carolina Shag. The video begins with variations on common moves, and then it progresses to cover the most popular and essential intermediate and advanced dance steps of the Carolina Shag. A free slow tempo music track is included at the end of the video to allow you to practice your steps. Twenty-eight figures are shown. A key feature of the video is a section on how to recognize and avoid common problems. Another section discusses tips and strategies for competitors. The instructors, Ricky and Christina, are national shag dance champions. This DVD features beautiful broadcast quality digital video. Plays in all regions!

Learn to Dance Carolina Shag Volume 3

This is the third video in the Learn to Dance Carolina Shag series produced by The Dance Store. This is a a great companion video to volumes 1 and 2. If you already know the basics, you can use this video. Thirty-five figures are shown in beautiful broadcast-quality digital video. The instructors, Ricky and Amanda, are U.S. Grand Nationals shag dance champions. These are awesome figures, suitable for social dancing and for competition. A free, slow-tempo music track is added to the end of the DVD to allow practicing the figures.

What do you get when you mix T-Birds, Bermuda shorts, bubble-flip dos and incredible dancing? You get Shag, The Movie a comic free-for-all (The New York Times) that Variety calls fun and breezy and you'll call a blast! Carson (Phoebe Cates, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is all set to marry respectable but boring Harley (Tyrone Power, Jr., Cocoon) until her best friends Melaina (Bridget Fonda, Single White Female), Pudge (Annabeth Gish, MysticPizza), and Luanne (Page Hannah, TV's Fame ) whisk her off for a last-fling beach party where all the girls have the time of their lives! A charming bad boy throws Carson's marriage plans intothe spin cycle. His nerdy sidekick whirls Pudge through some dazzling dance steps. Sultry Melaina learns some sexy moves from an Elvis-like teen idol. And even straight-laced Luanne whips off her horn-rimmed glasses and tosses her innocence to the wind! It's not too surprising that Shag flopped on its 1989 release but found a devoted cult following on cable TV and home video. This featherweight comedy looked like a waste of space on the big screen, but it plays very cozily on the tube, where it lends itself to popcorn breaks and pajama parties. (The lousy title must have had something to do with the movie's initial failure, a problem worsened by the film being marketed as Shag: The Movie , a truly dumb idea.) Shag is in the tradition of Spring Break pictures, a thoroughly formulaic stroll through the conventions of the minigenre: beachside romance, a wild party, one tender deflowering, and lots of rock & roll. The time is 1963, as three gal friends trick their soon-to-be-married pal (Phoebe Cates) into one final all-girl fling in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cates is engaged to a local well-bred stick (Tyrone Power Jr.), but soon she's tempted by a beach boy (Robert Rusler) bound for Yale (mm-hmm). The so-so material is buoyed by lovely Annabeth Gish, as the supposedly pudgy one in the group, and Bridget Fonda, as a prematurely sophisticated sexpot. After a while it's easy enough to relax and enjoy the girls' breezy adventures, which are served up without the soap opera melodrama of the similarly tooled Where the Boys Are . Oh, and Austin Powers notwithstanding, the title refers to the dance, not something else. --Robert Horton

Ultimate Lindy Hop Volume 1 - Fundamentals and Essential Steps

From the first few minutes of this 3+ hour video, Daniel Newsome and Giselle Anguizola will get you dancing! Starting with the Lindy Hop's most basic pattern, the swing out, and adding basic turns and moves, this is the most comprehensive and in-depth beginner Lindy Hop lesson ever! Lead-and-follow technique is explained clearly with exercises focused on making both the lead and follow excellent dancers. 6- and 8-count rhythms round out this overview of beginner Lindy Hop. Techniques and style are shown just as the dancers from the 1930s and 1940s did it. Each section is presented with a clear breakdown of the steps, tips for dancing as a pair, and demonstration to music at the historic Triple Door Theater in Seattle. This DVD lays the foundation to add more moves and improvisations, teaching dancers to become one with the music. From the wild and fast to the smooth and stylish, Dan and Giselle give you enough moves to keep you coming back to this DVD for a long time to come. Not only have they been teaching students worldwide for over a decade, each is known as a leading historian and innovator in the Lindy Hop community. At Motion Lifestyle we believe the best dancer is the one having the most fun, and aim to make our students the best dancers on the floor. There is simply no better way to learn the Lindy Hop!

Ultimate Lindy Hop Volume 2 - The Charleston

Add some kick to your Lindy Hop! Ultimate Lindy Hop Volume 2 picks up right where Volume 1 left off. In this comprehensive three-hour video Daniel Newsome and Giselle Anguizola show you all the basics of the Lindy Charleston, as well as many of the most exciting moves and patterns in the style. Especially geared toward fast music, Charleston is the ideal style to get comfortable leading and following to up-tempo music. These lessons will dramatically increase your swing vocabulary with Charleston-based movements and fluid combinations and transitions from 6 count to 8 count, to Charleston, and back again. Each move is shown with clear a breakdown of the steps, tips for dancing as a pair, and demonstration to music at the historic Triple Door Theater in Seattle. DVD includes: ** side by side Charleston ** tandem Charleston ** traveling Charleston ** 1920s (face to face) ** hand to hand ** crossover Charleston PLUS... original moves created by Dan and Giselle, and some that simply don't fit any specific classification! After taking in the basics, you will learn a series of routines and choreographies that will help you light up the floor! Not only have Dan and Giselle been teaching students worldwide for over a decade, each is known as a leading historian and innovator in the Lindy Hop community. They will show you the authentic steps as they were done originally in the 1930s and 40s, and add their own special twists. At Motion Lifestyle we believe the best dancer is the one having the most fun and aim to make our students the best dancers on the floor. There is no better way to learn the Lindy Hop!

Ultimate Lindy Hop Volume 3 - Flash, Shine, and Advanced Steps

Ultimate Lindy Hop Volume 3 expands on everything you learned in the first two videos of the series. Daniel Newsome and Giselle Anguizola show you how to endlessly modify the Lindy Hop by adding, subtracting, and changing steps. Choose from a wide array of over 30 moves, learning each at your own pace and coming back for more whenever you're ready. Dan and Giselle show every move clearly and simply -- and how to make them look good! Go from standard patterns that every Lindy Hopper should know, to original steps and variations that are sure to dazzle. Each move is clearly broken down, and demonstrated to music at Seattle's historic Triple Door Theater. This DVD will have you adding the style, energy and syncopation that defines the Lindy Hop. Giselle and Dan been teaching students worldwide for over a decade, and each is known as a leading historian and innovator in the Lindy Hop community. You will learn the authentic steps from the 1930s and 1940s that jitterbugs all over the world still dance today. At Motion Lifestyle we believe the best dancer is the one having the most fun and aim to make our students the best dancers on the floor. There is no better way to learn the Lindy Hop!