Slavik Kryklyvyj and Karina Smirnoff
See It Hear It Master It

This is the first video recorded by Slavik Kryklyvyj and Karina Smirnoff with a promise of more to come. It gives an insight into how Slavik and Karina understand their dancing and where they put priorities. These two excellent exponents of Latin-American dancing demonstrate 5 complete choreography programmes for 5 latin dances: Cha-cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso doble and Jive. Each dance is presented: Dancing together to the music Man side only to the count Lady side only to the count Explaining the figure names together This is followed by a mini-lecture showing the difference between dancing steps only and enhancing them with Body movement, Hip rotation, Side compression, Usage of back and Control of weight transfer from foot to foot to produce flexibility and softness. In the last part Slavik and Karina make a full demonstration of all 5 dances in full setup with lighting and costume changes. Running time: 66 min approx. This DVD is in NTSC II format which apparently does not work on American DVD players, unless you have a multi-region one. Ref: HW046 Price £24.95