Happy Drunk Review: Fantasy Bellydance:Magic

Geez. Does it take a person two weeks to finally get to her new DVD's? I use the excuse that I am taking my time with them, yeah, that's it.

    So I finally got down to viewing Fantasy Bellydance: Magic by the World Dance New York set. These guys seem to be the go-to folks for the fantasy/off the wall-but-still-bellydance stuff.
Basically there are three DVD's in this Fantasy series, each with three "themed" choreographies on them, Mystery, Desire, and the one I am reviewing now, Magic.

Lemme just say that these are not new. They came out in 2008. As for as wish list urgency they were pretty low on the totem pole, because I wasn't sure what I would be getting, and even though they are super inexpensive ($16 something new, used as little as $7), I wasn't sure about paying for three choreographies, two of which I wasn't sure I'd use.
Honestly I bought this bad boy for the Sword dance, called "Warrior Princess", by Isidora Bushkovski. Isidora is the bee's knees. I once saw a cane dance she did ( think it might have been on the IAMED Bellydance-o-rama series), that would make you soil yourself. She is the Queen of Props.

So onto the choreographies.
The first is by Autumn Ward, and it is called "Enchantress". It is definately a little odd, but very very beautiful. She performs the piece first, wearing a green gauzy, leafy getup that makes her look like she just crawled out of the forest. The costume definately sets the tone of the piece. She also uses zils in this choreo, and it adds to the allure ( for me). The Enchantress choreography is wild, and fluid. Will I learn it? Yeah, probably eventually.


As an aside, none of these are for beginners, or even newish intermediates. These are all advanced intermediate choreographies.
 
The second one is the Sword dance "Warrior Princess'.Of course it is great, and Isidora is dressed in tribally looking gear that she seems to favor when she does sword dances. It is a good, somewhat agressive choreo, with a lot of stabbing moves. The only thing is, I would have liked to see some floorwork with this piece. But all in all I am glad I bought it, and can't wait to get to work on it.

The third is "Kali" by Ariellah ( for some reason her link wouldn't work). It is a Fusion piece, and while I like to watch Fusion, I do not dance it. Still, I hear Ariellah is the chickey-doo when it comes to fusion, so if that is your thang,you might be interested in this DVD.

So essentially I paid $11 for two nice choreographies. I think that is a pretty good deal.
If that sounds like a deal to you, then buy it.