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I Hate to Exercise, I Love to Tap |  | Actor: Bonnie Franklin
Studio: Kultur Video
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.99
as of 7/30/2010 09:57 MDT details
Rating:  reviews
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: KLTD1333D
ISBN: 0769713335
UPC: 032031133396
EAN: 9780769713335
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Tap dancing July 13, 2010
Mary Treacy (SAN JOSE, CA, US)
This video is the best. Bonnie shows all the important steps and does it pretty slowly so if you are totally new to tap dancing, as I am now, you can learn. I am more than half way through and she is right. Learn the steps as you go, don't skip.
Great beginning December 2, 2009
KT (PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have never taken tap lessons but always wanted to. This disc is my beginning and I find Bonnie a great teacher.
Tappin' my heart out! August 27, 2009
bumper (New York, NY)
Because she's a more "mature" tapper, as I am, I've been able to get up to speed very quickly. I studied tap a few years ago, but was totally a beginner. I wanted to get more exercise in my life--this video has given me that, and I'm having so much fun, to boot! Buy it, you'll like it!!
"just wish there was a sequel" July 20, 2009
Karen Heinze (Medford, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a terrific video, especially for someone just getting into tap. Ms. Franklin starts teaching the basics but quickly combines steps into a routine so you're not just executing a bunch of boring drills, but learning something that looks pretty challenging the first time she does it. She breaks the routines down very well, only teaching a segment at a time, then combines bits until before long, you've mastered the whole thing and you feel like you can tap dance. (Its only when you try and dance the routines at the same speed in which she demos them initially that you fall back to earth). I figure I've taught myself in the convenience of my home for very little $, what it would take me months if not years to learn in a studio. (Or never learn at all - what teacher has the patience to replace my rewind button and show a step over and over?)
Bonnie Franklin is a very motivating teacher, cheerful and patient, with perfect cuing; her love of tap dancing is infectious. I only wish she had made more videos like this.
Why aren't all instructional videos like this one? June 27, 2009
MariAnKenobi (Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are many things to love about this video. I'll just name a few:
1. Pace. She doesn't spend an agonizingly long time on the steps, but she does take long enough to show you exactly what you need to know with some repetition. This makes the video easy to use over and over, whereas some go too fast and others take so long in the beginning you have to fast forward all the time.
2. Her Outfit. I have owned dance videos in which the instructors wear entirely inappropriate clothing - like black pants, tights and shoes - so that you cannot properly see what their feet are doing. Bonnie wears an outfit that would get her laughed out of town if she wore it on the street, but that makes it SO EASY to see what she's doing! Every single piece of clothing is a different color.
3. Her Enthusiasm. The title is right on. She may hate to exercise, but she LOVES to tap, and that makes the video that much better.
4. Her Connections. It certainly doesn't hurt this instructor's credibility that she has danced with Donald O'Connor...
5. Her teaching style. It may seem minor, but some people find it difficult to mimic dance steps from a video. If she is facing the camera straight on, she moves her right foot but says "left" so that she is a mirror image of you, rather than you having to remember to use your right foot when she uses hers.
Definitely a good buy if you want to learn to tap (though, until you get to the routines and get good at them, it is not strenuous enough to replace your regular cardio workout).
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