Belly Dance With Veil

Is it worth it?
The beginning screen has Play, performance, about Sadie and chapters.
The dvd begins with a stretch and Warm-up- This warm-up is not too strenuous, and focuses on opening up your upper body for veil work.
Veil Selection- Much like every veil dvd she talked about veil selection, different fabrics, when to dance with a veil and different ways to hold the veil while dancing with them, and playing finger cymbals with the veil.
Entrances, and Wraps:
Dynamic Diva
Mysterious
Angel
Tucks:
Basic tuck-or Hip Tuck which included just tucking the sides in.
Roman Wrap
Grecian Wrap she shows two versions
She also shows how to come out of each tuck as well.
Swoops & Figure 8's:
Swoop with touch
swoop with a three step arabesque
Passe
Practice without music, then practice with each variation 4 times repetition for each version.
3 step Turn
Spotting
Practice without music and...

Great DVD!
I think this is an excellent veil dvd for real practical veil work. I like it because it focuses more on "dancing" with the veil as opposed to learning tons of tricks or a choreographed stage piece. It does teach some great tricks and a short choreo/combo sequence, but I think it lends itself great to the dancer who works restaurants or improv dances a lot and just wants to be able to "dance" with the veil. If you want to learn a lot of stage worthy veil work, I recommend Sarah Skinner's veil dvd. Otherwise, this dvd is great for your everyday, veil work--improv, restaurant, for fun etc....Once again, a great dvd from Sadie!

Good teaching but rather basic
I would give this video three and a half stars if I could. It runs for 137 minutes and only contains a brief performance, so most of it is dedicated to teaching. There is a nice warmup at the beginning, with some techniques I'd encountered before and a few new ones. The warmup concentrates on the arms and shoulders since veil work will exercise them a lot.

Sadie then demonstrates several different styles and types of veils. One nice thing about this DVD is that she actually uses all of them throughout the DVD. She explains here about how different fabrics-and different weights of fabric-behave differently, and about the advantages of having a veil with a distinct edge to grasp.

After that she covers some different veil wraps and several different ways of entering the stage.

The next several sections of the DVD cover basic veil work, spins and turns and two combinations. Most of them are based on swoops and figure 8s. She covers the cha