Picture Yourself Dancing: Step-by-Step Instruction for Ballroom, Latin, Country, and More
December 24, 2009 by Ballroom Dance Lover
Filed under Ballroom Dance Steps
- ISBN13: 9781598632460
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Picture yourself floating across the floor to an elegant waltz or spinning past your partner to the driving beat of a West Coast Swing. Visualize yourself maneuvering your partner around the dance floor to an upbeat Two Step or gracefully enjoying your first dance together at your wedding. If these images left you saying to yourself, Wow, that sounds great, but what does a waltz look like? or, I’ll never be able to remember all of those steps!, then prepare to see y… More >>
Picture Yourself Dancing: Step-by-Step Instruction for Ballroom, Latin, Country, and More
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The book was great but what I really want to know is the names of the couple shown on the front cover. Top row, third from the left. I swear I saw them at some dance competition. Do you know who they are? I gotta know!
Rating: 5 / 5
My husband and I are just beginning dance lessons at Arthur Murray and wanted a book/dvd to supplement our at home practise. Unfortunately, without step diagrams, I find it hard to look up the appropriate chapter and pick up where my lessons at Arthur Murray left off for the week. This book might be alright for a book you really wanted to read from the beginning, but to use it as a beginner’s reference guide it was terribly hard for us to follow. I am looking for that book with foot diagrams, I think. As to the DVD, it might be great, but the book was designed to hold the DVD with a little glue in the back of the book, which in my book came unglued somewhere along the way before I ever even tried to watch it. As such, the DVD is missing. I’m hoping to find where it perhaps fell out, but am not holding my breath. You would think for a book this expensive they could have created a little better storage space for the DVD slot.
Rating: 2 / 5
Picture Yourself Dancing is a perfect partner for the Learn to Dance Series of DVD lessons offered by Shawn and Joanna Trautman. These professionals provide a logical approach to learning all of the dance steps. In this book, they include a comprehensive history of each dance, as well as step-by-step instructions for the dances. The video included with the book shows you the way each dance should look and it helps you to develop your own individual dancing style. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning the total dance “picture”. The vivid action photos and suggestions for dance attire inspire you to actually imagine yourself on the dance floor. Buy this book for anyone who loves to dance or who would like to learn, and include it as a companion to the Shawn Trautman Learn to Dance Series of DVD’s!
Rating: 5 / 5
Read this book and you will feel like you are ready to dance with the stars! These instructors teach the dances in detail with pictures and they lead practice sessions for each dance on the DVD. Their professional approach makes it easy to learn a variety of steps. I like the video included with the book so much that I am now planning to buy some of the other dance DVD’s produced by these instructors. It looks to me like this book and anything from the Trautman series of dance videos will be perfect for holiday gifts this year!
Rating: 5 / 5
Great literature on the history of dance. Great word discriptions on the steps but no foot pattern diagrams. The enclosed DVD is Couples Ultimate Dance Sampler which I already own. The DVD’s are very good. All of the dances covered in the book are in one or the other of their several DVD’s. If you have the DVD’s you don’t need the book
Rating: 3 / 5