It's All About Dancing: Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Penalty
Movie Reviews of It's All About Dancing: Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary
Movie Review: Dancehall 101
Summary: 5 Stars
Before you buy this, you can go to YouTube to see some clips to decide if this one's for you. This film is all about dancehall and less about dancing itself. It's not an instructional video in the usual sense, tho you can easily learn the dances from it if you have some basic ideas of the moves. It's basically a documentary showing how the whole thing works w/o much emphasis on any one thing. If you're interested in a crash course about dancehall, meeting it's major players, and seeing it's most popular dances...this may be for you. If you want to learn full on "Bogle style" dance moves, you probably do better w/ the "How Fi Dance" reggae series w/ it's emphasis on specific dances and improvisation.
As several reviews point out (all female, it seems) this video has a serious lack of female specific dance instructions. Most of the emphasis here, like in "How Fi Dance Reggae", is on the fellas and the Bogle style, but little on bubbling, wining, and all that good stuff. The female instructors are mostly former dancehall queens and there's a small piece about them in the extras, but there's little for women interested in learning more typical girl's dancing.
This video has subtitles and nice production values. It's well organized and brings in the very biggest selectors, djs, artistes, and dancers on the scene. Tho this is a bit old, most of the people involved are still at the top so this video is a nice introduction to the scene. If you already have some knowledge of the scene, skip this one. There's YouTube and more underground dvds on the scene where you can catch up w/ the very latest dances and riddims. If you like old school hip hop, you'll love this.
Summary of It's All About Dancing: Jamaican Dance-U-Mentary
It?s All About Dancing reveals dancehall culture in its truest form. Filmed in Jamaica, this DVD incorporates the best of the local dancehall selectors, DJ?s and dancers, almost all of whom are native to Jamaica including Ding Dong, the host. Other star performers featured are Beenie Man, Elephant Man, T.O.K., Mr. Vegas, Voicemail, Macka Diamond, Tanto Metro & Devonte, Tony Matterhorn, Scatta, Richie Feelings, Bogle, John Hype, Ice, Sadik & G-Unit, Latisha and Kiyo (dancehall queens). Together in one "dance-u-mentary," all the key figures of dancehall describe the style, history, language and their personal definitions of dancehall culture. It?s All About Dancing entertains viewers by showing the essence of dancehall through interviews and candid monologues inter-spliced with improvisational dance sequences that can teach anyone the basics of the cross-cultural, multigenerational, phenomenon called dancehall.Similar DVD Movies
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