If you dream of becoming a professional dancer, want to tone and shape your body, or just want to spice up your love life, The Art of Exotic Dancing: Striptease Series is the ultimate tool for achieving your goals. If you ... more »are already a professional dancer and are looking to take your performance to the next level, this program will help you to create that knockout performance! Created and hosted by Fawnia Mondey, Canada?s award-winning exotic dancer, Pole Work provides step-by-step instruction and focuses on the following: Safe Warmup and Stretching Techniques - Step By Step instruction on how to gracefully perform over 30 pole moves - Correct hand, body and leg positions - Follow-up moves for your pole techniques - Hints for making pole work easier. The Art of Exotic Dancing is a DVD series designed to help you enhance your performance with Visual Electric Energy! The Art of Exotic Dancing: Striptease Series is the ultimate guide to exotic dancing and is the sexy, fun and exciting way to spice up your performance (and your love life)! Contains No Nudity.« less
Actor:Striptease Series-Pole Work Director:Bayview Studio:Bayview Entertainment/Widowmaker Format:DVD - Color DVD Release Date: 05/30/2006 Release Year: 2006 Run Time: 0hr 40min Screens: Color Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 8 MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages:English
"I've owned this DVD for a couple years now (this one, and the second one of the series) because they've been available through Fawnia Mondey's website for a very long time, although they look like they've been repackaged for Amazon. From what another reviewer said, I can assume that the DVD itself is the same: set in a clothing shop, not many tricks, etc. The intruction for pole tricks isn't bad, it's just a little too easy for me. There really weren't many pole tricks at all- a lot of info on covering ground/travelling across a stage, and other stuff. I do like her sequence on stretching for extreme flexibility, as it only helps make you a better, stronger poledancer. The additional advice about what to wear & when to actually strip I personally don't like, but that's probably because I got into this for fitness, not for stripping. It felt a little cheesy to me. I'm currently checking out other DVD options for poledance tricks."
Best Out There
Fitness Freak | NJ | 11/09/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is been by far the best DVD I have seen on Pole Dancing. Very Easy, slow paced, slow music. Hey, I'm a beginner, I want it easy! This was great to learn by. If you are super advanced it's not for you."
Big let down....
Vivianna | Phoenix, AZ | 06/30/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This DVD is a big waste of time and money. I've been learning tricks for about 3 months with a few different DVD's and I'd have to say this is the worst one I've seen yet. Since the teacher is a stripper that won all these awards I thought it would have been better then what it was. It's filmed in some dance clothing store for goodness sakes!
If you're interested in learning pole tricks you should really start with Sheila Kelly's S Factor pole work video (step by step with a good 20 minute warm up session) or Pole Kats Intermediate video (both teachers were strippers and do a pretty good job of instruction). Those are both way better. I do NOT recommend this DVD to anyone. I'm glad I only paid $13.00 for it."
Fawnia rocks...
Michelle Carnes | Washington, DC | 05/14/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is good stuff. I was surprised that I could pick up the moves so quickly. Some take some practice and when attempting them the first time, sometimes you will invent your own twist, so give it a try and see what happens. Lots of good basics but also room to grow (and other stuff that's just amazing to watch and aspire to!) If you have a portable/non-installed pole, you will want to be careful in which moves you attempt for safety's sake. Otherwise, lots of fun to watch and try to do Fawnia's moves at home."
Buy it for moves, not glamor
Erin | France | 11/28/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Having wasted money on what I call 'pole-dancing theory' and 'mental-preperation-to-be-sexy' where they crawl around on the floor for 45 minutes then later remember there IS a pole -- for all the horrible production (non-existant, more correctly) this dvd DOES MOVES! Fawnia is sweet, unpretentious, balanced, thoughful and intelligent.
Sure, it's shot in a clothing shop in like 1995, and all I can think when I watch it is that someone from Motley Crew is about to swing by with said hair-band in-tow and whisk her away in the middle of the lesson, but God bless her, she SHOWS how to do moves on the pole! Which is a hell of a lot more than I can say for Shelia Kelly's horrible waste of money dvds which is all 'emotional-prepardness-to-bring-out-your-inner-sex-kitten' sham/scam for 2 dvds before they feel they can emotionally 'bond' with a pole. Gag.
This dvd assumes you're already a sexy female and doesn't hold your hand and explain it to you first. It's ALL about the athletism of the pole. If you're a 'lets get to the point yesterday' kind of learner, this dvd will keep you busy for a while. It's not for beginners in my opinion, but it is good for intermediate vertical dancers that are confident on the pole already.
Fawnia thank goodness you're an instructor not a rambler! The world of dvd instructional dance needs more people like you!"