HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume IV - The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance

HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume IV - The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance


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LEARN TO DANCE the Minuet, Allemande, and Contredance

This DVD shows the most influential social dances of the French Baroque Court. The renowned Minuet is demonstrated with step and floor pattern detail. The complicated handholds of the Allemande are carefully delineated. The intricate patterns of the Contredance are brought to life by eight dancers. The professional dancers perform with the appropriate music and fashions of the era. To provide an authentic historical backdrop, each dance is introduced with historical information, accompanied by original illustrations. The original written sources are also included.
HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume IV - The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Minuet
 HOW TO DANCE THROUGH TIME Volume IV - The Elegance of Baroque Social Dance
Starring: Carol Teten , Tatiana A'Virmond , Mario Marchiaro , Lee Bell , and Denise Brady
Manufacturer: Dancetime Publications
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ASIN: B0000U0GR2
Release Date: 2003-10-21

Description

LEARN TO DANCE the Minuet, Allemande, and Contredance

This DVD shows the most influential social dances of the French Baroque Court. The renowned Minuet is demonstrated with step and floor pattern detail. The complicated handholds of the Allemande are carefully delineated. The intricate patterns of the Contredance are brought to life by eight dancers. The professional dancers perform with the appropriate music and fashions of the era. To provide an authentic historical backdrop, each dance is introduced with historical information, accompanied by original illustrations. The original written sources are also included.

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5 out of 5 stars The Minuet.......2004-11-28

The lessons are not a professional couple swirling themselves about showing themselves off as a number of dvd dance lessons are tragically. You can actually learn the steps. The steps are shown close up, an instructor talks you through it,
and it is slow, piece by piece.

Is this perfect? No. The demonstrators of those steps, who as I said, are not showing themselves off, are professionals. This does mean that you have to remind yourself that no one way back then looked like them. "Rise up on your knee" and your shown these feet in very high heels balancing about five inches from the floor effect. Obviously, you're watching ballet dancers, who though they are not performing ballet raise their heels MUCH higher than ourselves or ancestors could ever do.

The biggest problem which is not the fault of the program will be shoes. The shoes have to be utterly flexible, almost made out of a single layer cloth, with quite a heel. So that means the student is barefoot rising a heel about two inches at best. The only pair I could find was a males Irish dance shoe which is a bit much to tinker with the Minuet.

The lessons are good and worthy. I am pleased and I do recommend it.

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