Bellydance Performance Ensemble with Suhaila

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Starring: Suhaila Salimpour
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Type: DVD
Studio: Cerebellum Corporation
Release Date: 2005-03-29

Discover the passion, exotic beauty and mystery of bellydance! Suhaila and her dance company perform 14 dances from around the world in this entertaining and fun program.

Suhaila Salimpour is a renowned performer and teacher of bellydance. She is director of Suhaila Dance Company, and has performed in many instructional and performance videos. The Suhaila Salimpour School of Dance was the first to offer a progressive, five-level certification program in Middle Eastern dance.

Combining classic and modern choreography, the dancers perform swirling veil moves, expressive arm movements, and balancing routines with swords and water jugs. Attired in dazzling costumes, they create a mesmerizing blend of color and motion as they sway, shimmy and move their hips to the music.

Program Features:

- 7 solo dances, 7 group performances
- Exhilarating bellydance and jazz choreography
- Spectacular routines from around the world
- Unique fusion of classic and modern dance moves
- Spectacular sword dance routine!
- Electrifying showcase of classic and modern dances
- Shimmering. Sultry. Spellbinding!

Special Features

- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Interactive Full-Motion Menus
- Chapter Selections
- Photo Gallery
- Trailers

Presented in Normal Frame and Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1

Pros and Cons . . .
I agree with the good and bad that has been written abou this dvd so far:

GREAT professional non-annoying, almost instinctual camera work.

Lighting is at times dark, but not by accident, but for mood, obviously. Dancers do have shadows falling across their bodies but it creates the atmosphere of a club setting and intimacy to me, personally. I don`t mind a shadow here and there. Very sexy. More like theatre than like an aerobic video lighting.

The diversity is questionable. And the music does get slightly redundent tho the songs do change.

But if you`re a dance lover, you will like this dvd. I do like mine very much. I like it to watch to get ideas for my own dancing. Very cozy. Would be great on a big screen plasma during an eastern-themed cocktail party.. its like that. Very atmospheric.

All in all more than I hoped for. Does have a lot of what I would term modern influence in dance as well as the music at times, tho I would catagorize it absolutely as bellydance and so would the average layperson.

If you are a purist and sensual edge annoys you.. pass this one by. But if you love a little mystery at the price of absolute athenticity.. this dvd is for you.

disappointed!
This video was extremely disappointing, because it is merely a video of pretty girls dressed very pretty and acting pretty! There is no good authentic music, and no genuine realistic bellydancing that should include a lot of the bellydancing movements with variations. This is just the same music and movements over and over again, awful!!!

So..so, kinda generic
If you like fusion, or bellydance with your own style mixed in that is not bellydance, its ok. Bellydance is an art form that in my opinion should not be mixed or played with. I dont like it when the dance form is distorted by fusion. So if you like the original bellydance moves, and real middle easter dance, this is not for you. But if you like to play around with this dance, its ok. For the price of $4 its ok.

Really Great DVD With Suhaila
I just finished watching this DVD for the first time and thought it had something to offer for both viewing enjoyment and also for dance move planning for beginning dancers to very advanced dancers. I have been Belly Dancing for a short while and found moves in the dance the three women in Blue and Lavender were doing that I could incorporate myself should I so chose. I enjoyed the music as I love the Tabla. Suhaila is very creative and innovative with her incorporation of the more modern Jazz and the very Traditional Belly Dance moves in the same dance. She dances with much feeling and joy. She is very seductive herself and is in great shape. She is not a real young woman as someone mentioned in another review that all of the dancers were. She has just kept herself in wonderful shape! She should be admired as creative person and a woman to look up to as a goddess image. Also, if you look closely, her troupe had small differences of personal choice in costume, so whomever made the remark of all the outfits were exactly the same and were dull, just was not very observant. Anyway, I thought the DVD was both entertaining and informational. It was nice listening too.
Badra

Entertaining but Lacks Diversity
This DVD is entertaining and slick but lacked variety in a number of areas. What personally bothered me the most were the dancers. They all appeared to be the same size, shape, age, and race. Even the costumes lacked color. Suhaila, herself, seemed to be a little stiff and lacked soul in comparison to other performers in the belly dance DVD's I own.

I enjoy watching the belly dance troops LOTUS FIRE and CARAVAN OF DREAMS in my town Bozeman, Montana more than this DVD. The dancers in my area are different ages (some over 45), looks, and especially body shape--women who have had babies and are in my eyes fertility goddesses. This is much closer to the origins of the dances done for special ceremonies where woman of nearly all ages participated. The local troops also wear different colored costumes as they perform together--which is much more visually entertaining.

To me belly dancing should be art and ritual for everyone--filled with the spirit and diversity of all womanhood. Instead, I felt like I was watching an old Robert Palmer music video with his look-a-like Barbie dolls dancing behind him.