Android Goddess: Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, Robotic Movement, Waving & Popping Styles, with Fayzah. Dance instruction in bellydance and hip-hop: A complete how-to for the robot dancer [DVD] [ALL REGIONS] [NTSC] [WIDESCREEN]

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Product Description Created by New York City-based star of Tribal Fusion Dance Fayzah, the Android Goddess instruction program blends the precise isolations and fluidity of Tribal Fusion bellydance with two unique and colorful movement stylizations: The Goddess and The Machine.The Goddess is characterized by fluid, sophisticated, expansive movement, with majestic poses inspired by the cycles and flow of Earth, wind, water, and volcanic lava. The Machine, or Android, features robotic movement, waving, ticking, hitting, and dimestopping, coming from popping styles, mime, street performance, digital music, and illusion effects. In the instructional sections of the program Fayzah builds the Android Goddess style step-by-step. She teaches the Goddess and the Android portions of her dance vocabulary separately, drills the moves, and then weaves them into combinations.The Android Concepts section explores ways of imitating mechanical machine-like motion through body angles, ticking, hitting, dime stopping, transitions, effects, and other types of robotic movement. Then Fayzah demonstrates and breaks down a series of moves from the Android style dance vocabulary, and leads you through Android drills, practicing each movement again and again, working toward creating an illusion of machine-like motion. You can repeat the drills as many times as you need to, to get these moves into your muscle memory. Some of them will be easier, while others may require a lot of practice and muscle conditioning. Next Fayzah demonstrates and breaks down a series of steps and poses from the Goddess style movement vocabulary. These movements embody natural elements and explore different types of fluidity, muscle control, and extension. Goddess movement drills help you tune into the full-body, expansive, powerful and confident style of Goddess movement. Finally, Fayzah blends the Goddess and the Android movements with steps and accents of Tribal Fusion belly dance in a series of combinations you can adopt as part of your personal dance vocabulary to perform individually or as a sequence. Each combination is introduced step-by-step and drilled through a number of repetitions. You can also practice all the combinations in a sequence, like a choreographed dance.Android Goddess also includes a muscle conditioning warmup and a few other sections to help you master the Android Goddess style. There is a dance-along practicewhere you can work on Soul, or your groove, while doing isolations and waving. Groove is the heart of rhythmic movement often overlooked when we learn and practice dance. Feeling the beat, confidence in moving with it, and the ability to express the rhythm gives a distinctive and effortless pacing to your dance. Another dance-along section is the Goddess Flow which brings about body awareness, using imagination, and introduces different ways of initiating and performing the movement. Review 5 out of 5 Stars: Review by Seir, .com (US) Android Goddess is a fun and great learning tool for the not so typical dancer that desires to go beyond basics and is trying to develop skills in fusion dances which focus on the concepts that hip hop and tribal fusion belly dance share.This program reminds me of the times I go into my closet and actually enjoy the fact that there is so much to choose from. After all, who wants to wear the same stuff each day! The typical hip hop concepts that are shared are waving, popping and robotic movements. I find that continuous practice helps ease the transitions in order to form the contrast in fluidity and staccato movement. The program outline has been well described in the other reviews so I won't go into detail on each section. I will focus on the program and not the props, or costumes:-Fayzah's teaching style is to the point. The strengthening and conditioning section integrates yoga poses, leg stretches, and was perfectly adequate for me. The main focus is to learn and develop muscle control, learn specific muscle contractions and isolation along with separation of upper and lower body and lateral movement. I feel that the conditioning section is essential in preparing for these movements and is very thorough.If you are new to this style and the program seems fast paced , each section can be repeated! The dance along section is fun to explore. Here, the dancer taps into her own creativity using the hands, shoulders, elbows, hips, feet, and adding level changes, turns, etc. to paint on an imaginary blank canvas. The "find your groove" section is not only fun but helps find your rhythm and layers isolations and different foot patterns. A section on gestures, or embellishments, is also a learning tool for the awkward,"what do I do with my arms and hands" situation. I gave this program a 5 because it fulfills everything in the program sequence, the end result is fabulous, it also includes wonderful bonuses in the body awareness section to add even more drama and style to your particular fusion. --.com (US)