Review(s): DVD Tap with Ginger Series (4 Hours Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Levels)
Realizing a Dream!
Back in the 1950's when I was a youngster, I admired the way in which tap dancers made their steps seem effortless. My dream was to take tap dancing lessons, with real dancing shoes. However, since my parents were unable to afford lessons nor to buy tap shoes, I tried to copy the steps that I had seen on T.V.. However, leather-soled shoes on a wooden floor do not produce an authentic sound.
A few weeks ago, while shopping for shoes in a popular chain store, I saw a sign that stated that if you buy one pair you get 50% off the price of a second pair of shoes. Since I had already selected the first pair, I wanted to find a second pair. Much to my amazement, they had a section of tap dance shoes! Most were in children's sizes. Then I spotted a pair in MY size. When I tried them on they felt comfortable, to boot (pardon the pun)! I ended up paying $7.50 (my shoe size) for them. When I got home I ordered the DVD noted above. Now, with the DVD's Ginger as my instructor, and my rewal dancing shoes, I have finally realized my dream!
Ginger is great
I really like to "tap with Ginger". She has a funny accent but is pleasant to watch and easy to follow. There is a lot of variety on the DVD. It is harder than I expected. I have taken 2 years of tap dance before buying the DVD. I thought I could start with the intermediate but found the beginning level challenging enough. After a month of dancing with Ginger I have started the intermediate level.
Desperate tap wives
Some friends and I got together and decided dthe only way we'd ever exercise was if we all did it at the same time. We started out with aerobics but it was so boring we decided we'd try tap dancing instead. What a hoot--or should I say, hoof. Ginger is sensational and we've all gotten so good, we're thinking about putting on a show for our husbands!
Giannella & Co.
Related DVD's Tap with Ginger Series (4 Hours Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Levels)
Who hasn't had the dream of being a tap dancer? Bonnie Franklin, formerly with Donald O'Connor and a tap dancer since the age of 9, makes your dream come true--at least in your living room. Franklin is a warm, motivating and skillful teacher, and she obviously loves tap dancing. The former TV sitcom star leads you through your first steps, appropriate for the two-left-feet among us. Later sections get progressively more complex. Learn a basic tap step, then another, practice and practice, and put them together. Before long, you're dancing complete routines. The video runs 86 minutes, but Franklin suggests you stop and practice a section until you're proficient rather than trying to get through it all at once.
This is a dance-instruction video, not an exercise video. When you get... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 31 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The energy and the synchronicity of the Tap Dogs dancers is really quite amazing. A solo plaid-shirt and denim-clad dancer opens the show, giving a hint of what is to come, then loiters stage left as we meet the rest of the troupe feet first. Each dancer gets a chance to show off his individual talents on a raised stage that looks remarkably like a boxing ring. A few moments later, the ring's sides are lifted and the floor split, giving the dancers a whole new terrain to jump and tap through. After a high-energy beginning, the dancers bring it down with a back-and-forth duet set to mysterious music, which then segues into an evocative, blue-lit wooden square reminiscent of a late-night street corner.
One of the most fun sequences is when the six dancers create a musical rhythm... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Aubrey Powell DVD Release Date: Released the 03 October 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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