Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler (Shawn Trautman's Dance Collection)

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Starring: Shawn Trautman + Joanna Trautman
Rated: Unrated
Type: DVD
Studio: Xpress Innovations
Release Date: 2006-11-01
No experience necessary! Slow Dance, Rumba, Waltz, and Nightclub Two-Step are all taught from a complete beginner perspective. Whether for a wedding, a cruise, or just something fun to do, this volume is for everyone as you will learn to lead and follow the four most popular Slow and Romantic dances. The Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler is professional, easy to follow, designed specifically for beginners and fun for anyone wanting to get started on the dance floor. With over 80 minutes of instruction, four camera views, and beginner-friendly curriculum, Shawn and Joanna Trautman will build your confidence and help you get moving on the dance floor. Filmed and presented with multiple camera angles and Picture-in-Picture technology, you will be surprised at just how easily you learn with the right instruction. The design of the curriculum and camera placement for the DVDs allows the leaders to do the EXACT movements that Shawn presents, and it allows the followers to mimic Joanna in real time without having to turn away from the screen. In addition to learning along with the instructors with split-screen formatting, you will also get to dance each dance with music alongside the instructors at the end of each section.

Excellent overview of four slow dance styles (good for wedding prep and other social dancing)
This is a good DVD for a couple who wants to be able to dance at their own wedding or other events such as wedding receptions, holiday parties, cruises, etc. Dancing one of these styles is so much more fun than just doing the junior high style of stepping back and forth and from this one DVD and a little practice it is very do-able! I highly recommend that Shawn Trautman instructional dance DVDs. Shawn and his wife Joanna are excellent teachers. Shawn does an excellent job of breaking down the footwork and also provides tips on style and leading. Joanna does a good job on providing info on following and style- and she makes funny comments along the way keeping it fun. They are very down to earth and personable and really care about feedback from dancers.

This DVD is a great place to start for an overview of four popular (and useful) ballroom and social dance styles. Each dance is covered fairly briefly in one chapter. (If you want more detail about a specific dance you could purchase a DVD from Shawn Trautman's collection devoted to that specific dance). However, even from this one DVD we were able to learn enough basics, footwork, and rhythm to get out on the dance floor in public. This is also a great overview for an "advanced beginner"- someone who is already a dancer in one or more styles and wants to learn a new dance.

this is a great dance dvd
my husband and I have really learned a lot--enough to look okay on the dance floor at these social functions. We bought one from a vendor on Amazon and one from the Shawn Trautman website--I think the customer service was better through the Trautman website--shipping was faster, and I have some concerns that the DVD we got from the distributor on Amazon may not have sold us a first quality DVD, the audio is not great

Start Dancing with this DVD
Do you want to dance? Start here. I guarantee you; this DVD is exceptionally well done. As instructional material goes Trautman and his wife are incredibly easy to learn from. I watched the "Slow and Romantic Dance Sampler" and was really impressed with the clarity of instruction and the helpful comments on dance etiquette. The camera angles shift between the male and female perspectives which is really interesting. You will learn enough of the basic dance moves to feel confident on the dance floor. I would eagerly recommend this to anyone who wants to get a jumpstart on their dance moves. Honestly, I believe you could watch this one night and be out dancing the next. It gives a man immediate skills he can use the same weekend. If you want to dance, start here.

Great for beginners!
Like all of Shawn's DVD's that we have purchased, this one is also terrific for beginners who want to learn to dance. This particular one is for slow dancing to many different types of music.

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My wife and I are new to ballroom dancing in the last year. We've taken some lessons, but found that we needed the extra help of videos that we can use on our own schedule in our home and we've tried a bunch of them. This DVD and the whole series of new videos from Shawn Trautman have been a godsend and much more useful to us than the others we've tried. We are actually doing the dances within a short time and having fun, rather than getting aggravated with one another. Trautman's emphasis on the differing roles of leader and follower and the very clear demonstrations of those roles have helped us enormously. These DVDs include much more music and time to practice the new steps than most videos, rather than just watching an instructor do a step and go to another step. We like this video a lot and strongly recommend it. On a side note, the logistics/timing of shipping and subsequent email communications with the company were, after many frustrations with other online outfits, the best we've seen.