| | |  | PACIFIC ISLANDS | Home » » Tahitian Dance for Beginner's Part 1 with Kehau. Learn the art of tamure style dancing! | | | | | | | Description: | | Learn the art of Tahitian Dance with Kehau! Tahitian Dance for Beginner's is a 3 part series designed to teach a new dancer the fundamental hip movements of the Tamure. Easy to follow format allows to to learn at your own pace. | | | Features: | |
• Dance Instruction
• Hip Isolations
• Hip Combinations for the Beginning Student
| | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| NTSC, Color | | Number of Discs:
| 50 | | Studio:
| Wild Wahine ProductionsTM Nohea PolynesiaTM : Copyright © 2005 : DVD Sales Final | | Run Time:
| 25 minutes | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Great InstructionFeb 08, 2008
By lydiathedancer
This is a great learning tool for beginning dancers. Kehau demonstrates repeatedly so you can practice along with her. It shows you exactly what you should look like while dancing. It doesn't go too fast and It doesn't loose me in a bunch of fancy choreography. Polynesian styles aren't easy to learn and i have been unhappy with other titles that mislead you into thinking that they're INSTRUCTIONAL when their not. She mentions a part two and I look forward to learning more technique. I will take her advice and master her series before seeking out a group to dance with.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great instructionJan 16, 2008
By Palenaka
Kehau does an excellent job of taking you through the three basic foundations of learning the tamure. There is multiple 'practice' segments to reinforce what she is teaching. Highly recommended for the self learner.
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Now I get it!Nov 23, 2007
By mlal5418
It's a cute little DVD. Simple and to the point. The focus is on learning the dance itself instead of it being a workout or choreography. Most of these dance instruction videos are made to workout, but she takes you through the basics of the dance. Its definitely a "how to move" your hips DVD. The only thing is that it's short (wish it was longer) but she has great hips! I hope that part 2 is longer. She demonstrates most of the movement from a back view and then there's a segment where there's a mirror image to help you see both angles at the same time.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Is it worth it?Jan 12, 2012
By Le Monde
"Le Monde"
I would not put this dvd in a category with beginner unless you have experience with this or similar dances/ and or pick up dance moves fast. The actual working parts of the dvd including practice and instruction is roughly around 18minutes. I watched it on my computer to get the actual time. The actual dvd totals somewhere around 20minutes.The beginning screen shows moving pictures and says Tahitian dance for beginners with Kehaue. You click on the Kehaue and it takes you to the actual instruction. There is no other menu to skip parts which makes sense. Since the dvd in itself is basically a drill dvd.
The segment begins with a clip of Kehaue dancing, then goes into a brief explanation on what the dvd is about.The author does state that this dvd is for those who are taking classes or have never taken any before.
She breaks down how to properly stand, into hip bumps, double hip bumps and the umi.She should have added the figure 8 that would have been a nice practice addition. Despite the lack of depth of instruction Kehaue is a good instructor. She shows what things should and should not look like.There is not warm -up and no-cool down.There was no footwork, and no breakdown of arm patterns.
It is more or less a drills dvd,so the shelf life is going to be a decent amount of time. There is no segment on music which left me dissapointed, if you are going to have a dvd that is super short you could at least throw in a bit about the history of dance even if it was a written section that appeared on the screen.and maybe a tad about the music, even if it was just one or two basic rhythms.Things that would truly get a beginner started in a dance form.Overall the dvd has good lighting and focused camera angles. The set alternated back and forth between mirrors and no mirrors. Kehaue's back is facing the viewer much of the time. But for the movement she presents it makes it much easier to see how the execution should look. Something that annoyed me was, the screens kept changing although you would be in the middle of a drill,the drill itself never stopped but Kehaue would be in another room doing the same thing.
With all of that said for some reason I like this dvd. I like that the timing is short and that is does not cover 50 billion things.Although like I said adding something about the music or history would have been nice. I prefer to master a couple of things and then move on. I also like the fact that the moves are drilled nearly the entire time BUT if you are going to make a dvd less than 30minutes and price it $19.95 plus shipping and handling-and the Production quality is nice as far as being able to see everything clearly but this is definately not a high end production dvd- and the instructional dvd content was okay but should have been more indepth the price is a bit much.The pricing I used is the actual pricing from the website [...]since amazon does not usually have it in stock.
Is the dvd worth it-if you take classes but are not super advanced, this would be a nice dvd to have although you may want a longer drilling section. If you bellydance or do similar dance that involve hipwork you might catch on to this fast. If you have any of Kili's hula dvd's and can work with them then this dvd might be for you. Still I think it is overpriced. If you can get it for cheaper say $8-$13, then this will be worth it.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Good for beginnersJun 26, 2008
By Lynn English
Quite a good DVD for beginners to Tahitian dance. Easy to follow and nice presentation, but a bit over-priced, as the entire DVD is only about 1/2 hour long. Found "Introduction to Polyneasian Dance with Tumata" more informative and better value at 70 minutes. This would be a good DVD for beginners if the price was a little lower, because you will need to order part two to learn more than two basic steps. If you want to learn ALL of the basic steps for Otea and Aparima, go with Tumata's DVD.
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