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(More customer reviews)Darrin's Dance Grooves is pretty darn bad.Offensive, even.
There is very little dance instruction.Most of the DVD is taken up with what amounts to infomercial material.Britney loves Darrin,N'Snyc loves Darrin, etc.
The actual workout includes a warm up, followed by a break down of small portions of four MTV video dance routines.The warm up is horrible.Darrin doesn't count on the eight.Unwatchable, or at least - unlistenable.You have to hope they dubbed the music in afterwards, otherwise, Darrin doesn't have much of an ear.
The "dance instruction" consists of running through the routine twice - with Darrin counting left when he's showing right (i.e., not allowing for the mirror image), and not giving much in the way of description other than "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, ok, we're moving on".The camera work frequently fails to show the movement.He then jumps to the actual video, with his class spliced in.Then he informs the viewer that if we wish to perfect our groove thing, we can always rewind.The routines include turns and floor moves, i.e., fairly complex movements that aren't broken down.
It concerns me that this DVD is being marketed to a pre-teen and teen audience that could be permenantly convinced they "can't dance" because they've been victimized by Darrin's non-existent cueing and teaching syle.
If you're looking to learn beginner jazz/funk/hip hop I would suggest Madonna Grimes, Culture Shock Hip Hop, Hip Hop Body Shop, Calvin Wiley, even the MTV Grind tapes over this.They all have their problems, but they're light years ahead of Darrin Grove.He's got zero "street cred" with me.
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music)Release Date: 03/22/2005Run time: 65 minutes
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