Luca & Loraine Baricchi
Art in Motion

These 4 videos make in our opinion the best teaching dance videos of the year. Luca and Loraine reveal in it many secrets of their beautiful dancing - Art in Motion. They include The difference between posture and poise Using stretch and contraction, using front vs. back muscles Produce a beautiful lady's line without bending backward Moving from foot to foot while retaining full control Usage of sending leg vs. receiving leg Weight anchoring technique Dancing into 4 types of spaces around you 5 different ways of turning your body Luca and Loraine clarify many concepts very often misunderstood by couples on the competitive circuit and they really do make them easy! Although Luca and Loraine explain very advanced concepts, they use relatively simple, popular steps therefore this video can be recommended to very experienced dancers as well as medium experienced ones (however not beginners). The section about body stance, posture and poise is repeated on all videos, however not exactly in the same words. Therefore every video can be used separately, but if you study all four of them you will not get bored either! USA customers:This DVD is made in an earlier version of NTSC system and unfortunatelly we found it does not work in American NTSC systems, unless you have a truly region free DVD player. Sorry! WALTZ Stance Posture - Poise Usage of Upper Body and Lower Body Natural figures: 1. Natural turn - Overturn - Turning lock 2. Natural turn - Spin pivot - Overturn - Turning lock 3. Natural turn - Spin pivot - Overturn - Two turning locks with change of shape Reverse figures: 1. Fallaway reverse - Double reverse spin 2. Fallaway reverse - Double reverse spin - Overspin - Standing wing - Hower Harmony and Space Natural Turn - Whisk - Wing - Chasse to Centre - Outside change - Open Natural - Chasse to Right - Impetus - Promenade position Running time 65 min. Price £29.95 Ref: HW015 NTSC (multi-region) TANGO Stance Posture - Poise Usage of Upper Body and Lower Body Natural figures: 1. Two walks - Progressive link - Closed Promenade 2. Contra check - Spanish drag to PP 3. Pivots Reverse figures: 1. Fallaway reverse - Reverse pivot 2. Fallaway reverse - Reverse pivot - Telemark - Telespin - Pivot - Side Close 3. Fallaway reverse - Reverse pivot - Telemark - Two Telespins - Pivot - Side close - Oversway - Spanish drag - Same foot lunge - Five step Space Use of four spaces around us for power, shaping and presentation Running time 80 min. Price £29.95 Ref: HW016 NTSC (multi-region) SLOW FOXTROT Stance Posture - Poise Usage of Upper Body and Lower Body Linear figure 1: Feather step - Reverse turn - Feather finish - Three step Linear figure 2: Three fallaways Curved figure 1: Reverse wave Curved figure 2: Three step - Curved feather - Back feather - Curved feather - Curved three step - Curved feather Space and Harmony Running time 80 min. Price £29.95 Ref: HW017 NTSC (multi-region) QUICKSTEP Stance Posture - Poise Using change of poise by a man to lead Usage of Upper Body and Lower Body Natural figures: 1. Natural turn - Running right turn - Running finish 2. Natural turn - Spin turn - Running right turn - Running finish 3. Promenade Position - Running right turn - Open natural turn - Outside change - Open natural turn - Chasse - Running finish - Natural turn - Pivot - Side step - 4 quick actions Reverse figures: 1. Chasse to centre - Quick Open Reverse - Chasse - Cross chasse - Natural turn - Open impetus 2. Chasse to centre - Two Quick open Reverses in Fast timing - Quick open Reverse in Slow timing - Chasse - Cross chasse 3. Telemark - Wing - Telemark - Travelling wing 4. Chasse to centre - Lockstep - Telemark - Wing - Telemark - Travelling wing Space and Harmony Running time 80 min. Price £29.95 Ref: HW018 NTSC (multi-region)