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Instructional Multicultural Folk Dance Videos and DVDs

Learn dances from Philippines, Hawaii, Flamenco, Spain, Persian, African healing dance or multicultural dancing.

Dances of Ecstasy - A Sensory Journey Though Rhythm, Dance and Music DVD

Dances of Ecstasy is a mesmerizing journey into the world of ecstasy experienced through rhythm, dance, and music. It's a visual and aural feast for the senses blending exciting dance rituals, hypnotic imagery, interviews, and a spellbinding global music soundtrack.

DVD 1 - Interweaving traditional and contemporary ecstatic dance rituals, Michelle Mahrer and Nicole Ma's celebrated documentary film explores how different people around the world connect with a divine power.

Orisha priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil and shaman healers from the Kalahari and Korea pulse to the same beat as thousands of young people at an all-night techno dance party in an Australian forest. The many different experiences of trance are linked by the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension.

Dances of Ecstasy is a visual and aural feast for the senses blending exciting dance rituals, hypnotic imagery, interviews and a spellbinding global music soundtrack. Visit Namibia (San), Korea (Kut), Nigeria (Yoruba), New York (Gabrielle Roth), Brazil (Candomble), Turkey (Whirling Dervishes), Morocco (Hadra), USA (Firedance) and Australia (Rainbow Serpent Festival) during a trance journey into divine sources of universal energy.

Enjoy four illuminating documentaries about various rituals portrayed in the film, or select the filmmakers' audio commentary which describes their experiences while shooting all around the globe. Finally, there is the opportunity to have a closer look at Sufi Dervishes' whirling ritual in an extended portrait of this fascinating ceremony.

DVD 2 - Join in and 'do it yourself' with a complete Power Wave workout by New York urban shaman Gabrielle Roth, or dance your own dance to the global grooves tracks, with psychedelic visuals by D-Fuse. There are also two hidden bonus videos by One Giant Leap and James Asher.

This is a 2 DVD set!
290 mins. (2009)
DVD - All Region

Hula for Everyone - Your Complete Hula Lesson Video

Hula for Everyone DVD Only - $24.95

Imagine learning the Hula with the magical island paradise as your background. Be enchanted by the melodic sounds of Hawaii and inspired by the voice of experience of "Taina".

Now you can learn to do the Hula with these easy step-by-step lessons. Each basic step is taught with music, which conditions the dancer to feel the rhythm from the beginning. Each lesson progresses from simple movements to those of increased difficulty and speed. Each song is taught by a phrase or verse at a time. The first time through, the music and dance is slowed down for learning; the second time through is at performance speed. The instructor has designed the movements in reverse allowing the dancer to follow each lesson in a mirror-like fashion.

Learn 6 basic steps in its variations: Koholo; Ka'o, Kawelu, Kahela, 'Ami, and Lele. Learn 4 Hula songs: Dance Hula Girl, Blue Hawaii, Pua Iliahi, and Hawaiin Wedding Song.

Taina Passmore is an Island dance instructor who has had years of experience as a dancer and choreographer. She is the producer of the Memories of Paradise shows in Hawaii.

63 mins. (2002) Taina Passmore
DVD - Region 1 (North America)

Hula for Children Video

African Healing Dance - Wyoma

African Healing Dance DVD - $19.95

Join Wyoma, the respected lead dancer and director of the Damballa dance troupe, as she teaches you the African way of moving your entire body with passion and joy ... symbolic animal and elemental gestures ... secrets of hip, torso, and shoulder articulations and much more. Here's the instructional program you need to have a high-energy African dance class at home.

You will learn 6 African dances: Sowu - The Dance of Life from the Ewe of Ghana; Gbegbe - from the Ivory Coast, a call for vision and strength; Focodoba - a post initiation basket dance from the Bambara of Guinea; Umoya - a South African dance to draw energy from heaven and earth; Nago - an Afro-Haitian warrior dance to claim your power and domain; Yonwalu - a voudoun invocation to Damballa, the serpent deity; A Healing Journey - Dancing from within.

70 mins. (1997) Wyoma
DVD - All Region

Multicultural Folk Dance: Video, Audio, Guide - Volume 1

Multicultural Folk Dance Video, Audio, Guide - Volume 1 DVD with CD - $52.95 &

Each of the dances is taught by a native of the country from which the dance originated or by an expert in that particular dance form. Wearing traditional costume, these teachers instruct the dance and then the dance is demonstrated by a group.

Use this video in combination with the companion guide and quality music to learn about, experience and appreciate the uniqueness of other cultures! An excellent visual and audio resource for learning the most popular multicultural dances today.

These dances were selected based on a teacher's survey throughout the United States. Included is step-by-step instructions for the following dances: ISRAEL/Hora; HAWAII/Hukilau; SERBIA/Savila Se Bela Loza; USA/Virginia Reel; GERMANY/d'hammerschmiedsgselin; GHANA/Highlife; ROMANIA/Alunelul; CHINA/Chinese Ribbon Dance; MEXICO/El Jarabe Tapatio.

57 mins. (1998/2007)
DVD - Region 1 (North America)

Multicultural Folk Dance: Video, Audio, Guide - Volume 2

Multicultural Folk Dance Video, Audio, Guide - Volume 2 DVD with CD - $52.95 &

These dances were selected based on a teacher's survey throughout the United States. Included is step-by-step instructions for the following dances: GREECE/Syrtos; JAPAN/Tanko Bushi; CANADIAN/Les Saluts; ITALY/Tarantella; RUSSIA/Korobushka; ENGLAND/Gathering Peascods; PHILLIPPINES/Tinkling; IRELAND/Siege of Ennis; HUNGARY/Dunantuli Ugros.

59 mins. (2007)
DVD - Region 1 (North America)