Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27699 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1

Video Description
Debbie Moore former top model founded Pineapple Dance studios in London's Covent Garden in 1979, her aim being to make dance accessible to everyone. Through this series of Dance Masterclasses Debbie invites you to join the world of Pineapple where `To Dance Is To Live'

For this Dance Masterclass we are joined by choreographer to the stars Ashley Wallen (BBC's Dance X, Kylie Minogue, Jamelia, Will Young) alongside one of Jazz Dance's hottest choreographers Jason Beitel.
Ashley and Jason will take you step by step through each routine. The routines feature three of their current favourite commercial tracks in easy to follow steps, just like in one of their classes. The routines are also filmed in performance with Ashley and Jason, along with four of the hottest female commercial dancers in the UK.
This Masterclass DVD is for dancer who like a challenge and provides an exceptional work out with separate warm up and cool down sections.

* Complete body warm up section
* Detailed instructions by leading choreographers ASHLEY WALLEN and JASON BEITEL covering complete routines for;
TAKE CONTROL - AMERIE**
CANDYMAN - CHRISTINA AGUILERA**
DON'T CHA - PUSSYCAT DOLLS**
(** Denotes the artist that made the song a hit)
* Alternative camera angles on instructon section; (a)Mirror Feature (b) Full wide angle
* On screen count in to verse & chorus option on performance section
* Full performance of each routine in pop video setting
* Complete body cool down section
* Meet The Choreographers Interview

Synopsis
Pineapple, the UK's leading dance studio, launches an innovative new series in dance instruction whose aim is to make dance accessible to everyone. In this volume, famed choreographer to the stars Ashley Wallen and Jazz dance expert Jason Beital lead the viewer through the hottest new dance routines of Commercial Jazz. Designed to appeal to both dancers and fitness buffs, this feature includes a warm-up session, three complete routines, and full performances at the end of each session.

About the Actor
ASHLEY WALLEN:- Dance X judge Ashley Wallen is choreographer to stars including Kylie Minogue, Jamelia and Will Young. He has performed in countless pop videos and films and is widely viewed as one of the industry's brightest young talents. His choreography extend to the West End stage for a revival of the worldwide smash musical RENT

Customer Reviews

Not bad, but perhaps better for more advanced dancers.
Also, the dances were shown at one of two speeds: crawl or hyper-fast. The really slow speed was good for learning the steps, but it would have been nice to have a speed in between so we could get used to how it was in the actual performance.

I found some of the moves in the performance to be somewhat different to what we were taught; for example, what was shown as a full body roll to the side was really only a quick head roll in the performance.