Evolution- Tribal Fusion Bellydance Performances

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...not the best.
The first two performances were nice, mainly b/c one included an early Zoe Jakes which was interesting to see how much she has improved up to this point. Overall though, I found most of the performances to be quite rough around the edges, some didn't seem well rehearsed, there was a lot of "tugging" on costumes during the middle of a dance, the "asian" piece seemed almost to be mocking instead of interesting, and basically the entire thing just lacked a certain "finish". I'm glad I rented it from my local belly dance shop (Black Sea Trading Company) before purchasing b/c I would have been very dissappointed.

Not a keeper.
I'm becoming bored with all the tribal dancing at the moment but I watched this DVD as I had heard a lot of good things about it. I found it okay but I really can't think of anything in particular that made me go 'wow!' Curiously there is one act with a guy just hoola hooping. While I acknowledge there is skill in what he is doing, why is it on a belly dance DVD? And I found it very distracting that he had to keep pulling up his shorts. Perhaps he's also a plumber? I sold my copy to a friend.

Great variety, great performances.
I liked this video for several reasons. Great setting and props. Good production quality and camera work. A real diversity of belly dance styles - even a male dancer. Some of the attempts to fuse belly dance with other cultural dance styles were amusing but every performance was entertaining. A good value and introduction to the world of tribal fusion bellydance.

enjoyable viewing :)
ZOE JAKES is the most amazing performance on the DVD!!! After seeing this, I want an entire Zoe DVD. I can't get enough of it... I have to watch it over and over. It is astounding. The rest of the DVD is good too :) In Urban tribal, I wished the fire hoop wasn't spliced with a repeat of the digeridoo though. Domba is great and it's a really nice historical document of this point in their evolution. I loved Zoe though, really, c'mon you guys she's great. Her facial expressions, control, ornate costume, snappy moves, everything is just soooo.....

variety... spice of life
I teach Poi (fire spinning) as a performance art and I costume for a belly troupe. I really love this DVD because it runs the gammut from georgeous to tacky with plenty of mistakes and professionalism. The opening menu is annoying long and cannot be fastforwarded. Kami Liddle didn't impress me. She's good, fun to watch... but nothing to teach me. Solos are too easy to improvise for my puropses. I did like her head gear... it goes a long way is hiding the fact that modern belly dancers make their tops from decorated underwear. Urban Tribal was very clean, very professional, very smooth. The timing was perfect. They use some Hula movements; it was delicious and mesmerizing. My class watches repeatedly on movie nights. Zoe Jakes is isolation heavy and I don't consider that very Eqyptian... she does eyebrow isolations though, so I can forgive her for mis-titling the dance. She touches her hair and costume too much to be professional and it looks like she made her costume from a sportsbra. I use this number to stress the importance of a supple wrist... he left one is, her right isn't. :P I spot for details. The opening angle on Ava Fleming's dance is pretty risque... artisticly is good camera work, but Ava's costume doesn't fit her propperly. Her dance skills are lovely particularly the ones she does when she isn't standing. Domba I like because it solves many troupe related issues smoothly. Individuality with in a group, formations (standard and non), unity vs parts, transitions. They do a little bangara... but they don't quite get it in sync. Still, the mistakes are well covered. I like to show it to my troupe so they know what it looks like to an audiance when they make slight mistakes. This is a favorite. Karis: I like him because he is an example of what not to do (touching your costumes, wearing flimsy pieces, neon underpants, legwarmers with no shoes). There was no bio info on him, though... I found that a little strange. Even though he's not doing bellydance... well only about 10 seconds of it... I'm thrilled that he is there, just because in all my DVDs of bellydance, the only males I have are drummers. I can see where he pulled bits of the aesthetic, but its not enough to call it belly. Elizabeth Strong: good, not impressive... she does full splits which is annoying... I like to think that this dance is accessable to everyone. Also, you can see her bra is a bra through her beladi coat. Devidasi has Kimono-ish things & Japanese demon makeup, Thai finger estensions, midriff Cheongsam and fans. They would have done better to pick one country or ethnicity to fuse with belly instead of the entire contenent. They are real people though... not size 2s. And their neck isolations are amazing. When one of the girls trips, it is a nice recovery, so I like the piece. I like to teach from it too... their make-up is too big for their stage, although it is well done, and the application of hair gel can do wonders for a professional image. Meleah is another who fuses an entire contenent when she would do better to pick a single ethnicity. African dance styles are less prop & costume heavy than Aisan, but its still too broad to make a solid fusion piece... with a different cosutume, she could bill it as a hip-hop fusion much more successfully. You can tell what parts of the choreography she never thought of: like what to do with her hands when she moves her arms, and where to focus... still, she commits to every movement which goes a long way toward making a good impression. Aubre ... I never caught her in a mistake, her techinques are excellent, she should be the perfect example of a stellar preformance... but she lacks stage pressance. Its intangible, but its missing. Its what keeps even the most perfect dancer from being a great dancer. Urban Gypsy... not sure what to think of the digeridoo... it's well played, but not well mic-ed. Fire fingers pretty standard for a belly/fire show, could use some more traveling steps. Fire eating... not impressed: like Karis, I can see the influence, but the actual dance is missing. Fire fans was a very good fusion; lots of traveling, lots of solid dance techinque (both belly and Tahitian). The Poi... georgeous, but missing the belly aspect and safety straps (?). I can forgive the lack of shimmies however, because I know just how hard that can be. The hoop... decent belly skill, but not enough fuel in the wicks. Over all, they should have timed the burns better so that one dancer didn't distract from the next. The special features have a radically different volume than the dances... annoying. Still my favorite DVD in the genera.