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21, "Ethnic Fluidity" - This episode prepares the viewers to dance with a gentle warm-up. The teaching sequence includes: ‘chest-circles’, ‘liquid-arms’, ‘shoulder-rolls’, and the energetic ‘village-shimmy’. Viewers are given the opportunity to use what they have practiced in a choreographed belly dance performance.
The idea for radio broadcast calisthenics came from "setting-up exercises" broadcast in US radio stations as early as 1923 in Boston (in WGI). [1] The longest-lasting of these setting-up exercise broadcasts was sponsored by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (now MetLife), which sponsored the setting-up exercise broadcasts in WEAF in New York which premiered in April 1925. [1]
Zumba was created in the 1990s by dancer and choreographer Beto Pérez, an aerobics instructor in Cali, Colombia.After forgetting his usual music one day, and using cassette tapes of Latin dance music (salsa and merengue) for class, Pérez began integrating the music and dancing into other classes, calling it "Rumbacize".
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Classes usually run one hour, divided into an initial 15-minute warm-up, a core segment and a final cool-down. Latin Jam classes use an exclusive musical mix. The warm-up features fast-paced pop and techno beats to raise body temperature and heart rate , while the core part of the class features a mix of fast and slow rhythms to combine aerobic ...
Similarly, the "knee up" move also takes 4 beats. Another common move, the repeater knee, is an 8-beat move. Classes vary in the level of choreography. Basic level classes will tend to have a series of relatively basic moves strung together into a sequence. More advanced classes incorporate dance elements such as turns, mambos, and stomps.
"Health & Fitness", who gave the previous video the maximum of five stars, gives this one a respectable four stars, stating that it is "...An excellent total body workout." Like the previous video, this video has also been released since on DVD in Zone 2 UK only. It peaked #2 in the Billboard Top Special Interest Video Sales. [2]
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