BURLESQUE BEAT: SEXY FITNESS DANCE WORKOUT with Rodney James

Think Gay-Club meets Housewife! This is a beginner/intermediate burlesque routine. If you are a hardcore dancer, this will be too slow. If you're an average person, this is perfect for pretending you're performing on the stage. There's a longer final-dance routine and more detailed instruction than the scant PussyCat Dolls workout or Carmen Electra's DVDS. I love PCD and Carmen, but Rodney James did such a great job on this one. It walks the fine-line between dance/fun/fitness. Hard to get all three of those even in a work-out, but he does.The all-important final dance is 3.5 minutes of a cabaret act of medium careful-moves intensity. It is NOT a super-fast routine you can't keep up with. What it does have is quick full-body moves that look very vampy and condition your arms, legs, back, etc. This is not a heavy-foot chorography routine where you won't be able to get fast enough to the next place; it's very natural and flows but is in time with the energizing dance beat.The main final routine is dressed-up! Part chair-dance with sassy-ness and cheek and part floor-work, rolling around down there, half pushups, twisting at times to get up, etc. Lots of sexy walking around chairs, draping yourself and your legs overtop them and around them. The music is great:--it's a fast 80's dance-club beat that's not annoying; the songs are catchy and fun. This is burlesque 101.Rodney himself is pure flamboyance in his black, patent-leather high-heeled boots and sexy mini-shorts. He's so caring and encouraging to his audience. There's an ending low-intensity chorography and final dance, as well, for a group of girlfriends to learn, very simple, less complex than the main dance. It could be used almost as a cool down. It's clear from Rodney's warm Austrailian accent that he has a great attitude and wants you to dance, be fabulous, and celebrate yourself. I do feel like a REAL dancer in this routine because I learned one! - and if you do it in heels, it's an extra-sexy challange for the legs. Rodney, you did a great job, hope you're working on part two.

In the title of this dvd, it says "SEXY FITNESS DANCE WORKOUT" but in reality it is a joke, my friend and I couldn't stop laughing at the the "instructor" in his cheeky shorts, shiny stiletto boots, tacky glitter tie, and his facial expressions. I am returning ASAP! I wanted a fun, burlesque workout but am looking for a new one.

I purchased this DVD in the hopes of losing weight in time for my wedding. I have not been disappointed yet. Its a fun, sexy workout that is made even more fun by Rodney's bubbly attitude. This DVD really makes burlesque accessible and fun for women of all body types. The warm up alone will make you sweat, though most people will have to repeat the instructional dance sequence a few times to get it down. Its a good thing though, because its a great workout that revs up your cardio and gets you sweating. I would recommend this DVD to anyone.

I want so much to love this DVD just because the instructor is so much fun. But it has MAJOR flaws.First of all, I don't know how many times people have to say this, but DO NOT TEACH FACING YOUR AUDIENCE AND SAY "Go Right" and MOVE TO YOUR RIGHT! That's your viewer's left, and most people find it very frustrating to try to process that what they are seeing (instructor moving to the left) with what they are hearing (instructor saying step/move/use the right) and it makes the learning experience very frustrating. I'm sorry, but there are SO many reviews on so many DVDs that make this mistake that there is no excuse anymore for this kind of shoddy teaching. If he can't reverse what he says/does, he shold have been filmed in front of a mirror with his back to the viewer, which is also beneficial because you can see what the person is doing with their body from 2 perspectives AND the instructor doesn't have to remember to reverse (or simply say "go this way" and point) verbal instructions with what they are actually doing.I also thought there would be more workout in this workout. I have taken chair/floor dance classes and a lot of it was doing moves and perfecting them which was a great workout. This is more a really brief tutorial masquerading as a workout, and then a lot of learning choreography. There are NO modifiers for those with knee or back issues, or who just don't have the muscle control about how to get around some of these things, so trying to do the choroeography as a way of extending the "workout" is asking for some people to just get hurt.This DVD is great for someone who wants to learn 2 fairly easy choreographied routines, just as long as you are the kind of learner who can either blot out the verbal instruction or ignore the visual (I am not one of those people and if you tell me to cross my right foot over the left and you don't mirror me, I will trip over my own 2 feet, as will a lot of people, so please, know what kind of learner you are) you might have fun with this video. The choreographies are cute, but they're more what I think of as strip joint dance than burlesque. In my mind, burlesque is sexier, has some sort of story (or gimmick) and the tease part is slower.And Rodney James is just so much fun. Even though I found myself getting very frustrated with this DVD I found myself wishing I could be one of the women who are behind him on the stage because they would be learning from behind him and getting proper direction. I liked his personality and admire the fact that he can work the high heels better than most women. I hope that he gets some good constructive feedback either from Amazon or elsewhere and comes back with a DVD that is easier to follow.

Rodney James IS "Mr. Burlesque" and if you haven't been lucky enough to catch him when he's on tour, this DVD provides the basics of the amazing program he's created! His energy is contagious and his un-biased and un-censored ability to bring out the showgirl in anyone is evident when he explains and teaches!Add this DVD to your collection,you'll learn a lot about dance based movement while having a great time! Rodney is fabulous!

I have just started my burlesque studies and have found this on a good place to start on the process.

The best....I was not actually expecting it to be this good. Rodney is so upbeat and a character to watch. This is a great addition for practicing my burlesque!

Awesome!

May help with confidence but I don't know about cardio. I got a mild sweat with the toning segment in the beginning. Make sure you have plenty of room because the exercises caused for far too much space than necessary. I agree with another review way too sleazy I do burlesque style exercises all the time. But wow this is too much and too slow. I do it but I make sure my kids are fast asleep.

Awesome work out, if you like dancing any style. Good way to seduce your lover. Along with this dancing a lot is left to the imagination of your partner at the time.

The work out is ok, but this is one of the sleaziest looking exercise videos I've ever seen.

Love it...lots of fun:-)