shiradotnet
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To me, the goddess clip in the original post looked as though the teacher was trying to have a bit of light-hearted fun with her storytelling. Although her choice of story didn't work for me, I don't think it was a bad idea to try using storytelling to communicate the joy of belly dancing. I think she was trying to convey the diversity of ages and body types that could participate in this dance, which is a message I agree with.
However....
The music in that clip was so awful it took all my self control to keep watching until the end. It was truly, truly miserable.
She didn't do herself and her students any favors by taking dance performances that had obviously been originally done to some other music and superimposing them over this dreadful sound track. It would have been a MUCH better promotion of her classes to use the original music that choreography was designed for.
The teacher looks like she has a lot of skilled technique. However, I can't say whether she's a good dancer or not since it was impossible to gauge her musicality skills or her stage persona from this hot mess of a clip. Her decision to dub this dismal soundtrack over the original music gives the appearance of her being a very poor dancer because her movements don't fit this music at all.
Also, her choice to wear a brilliant high-end sparkly costume in the same scene with her students wearing whatever-they-had-on-hand student garb created a real clash of aesthetics. It would have been better to incorporate separate clips - one in which Teacher does a solo to Middle Eastern music to showcase her Oriental solo skills, and another in which her students do their choreography to the music it was originally designed for without Teacher in the scene.
And I do wish she would get rid of the stupid bent-wrist moronic-Pharaonic arm poses.
However....
The music in that clip was so awful it took all my self control to keep watching until the end. It was truly, truly miserable.
She didn't do herself and her students any favors by taking dance performances that had obviously been originally done to some other music and superimposing them over this dreadful sound track. It would have been a MUCH better promotion of her classes to use the original music that choreography was designed for.
The teacher looks like she has a lot of skilled technique. However, I can't say whether she's a good dancer or not since it was impossible to gauge her musicality skills or her stage persona from this hot mess of a clip. Her decision to dub this dismal soundtrack over the original music gives the appearance of her being a very poor dancer because her movements don't fit this music at all.
Also, her choice to wear a brilliant high-end sparkly costume in the same scene with her students wearing whatever-they-had-on-hand student garb created a real clash of aesthetics. It would have been better to incorporate separate clips - one in which Teacher does a solo to Middle Eastern music to showcase her Oriental solo skills, and another in which her students do their choreography to the music it was originally designed for without Teacher in the scene.
And I do wish she would get rid of the stupid bent-wrist moronic-Pharaonic arm poses.