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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ballroom Dancing, DVD Edition (Complete Idiot's Guide to) | 
| Author: Jeffrey Allen
Publisher: Alpha
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $14.11
You Save: $10.84 (43%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 35881
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1592575773
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.33
EAN: 9781592575770
ASIN: 1592575773
Publication Date: September 5, 2006
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Product Description
Ballroom dancing is back! And now anyone can move like a pro. DVD included!
In addition to the step-by-step photos, footwork illustrations, and instruction covering all the common ballroom dances, this new edition of the bestselling Complete Idiots Guide to Ballroom Dancing includes a 90-minute instructional DVD featuring award-winning dancer and dance instructor Jeff Allen. It corresponds with the text seamlessly, giving readers the next best thing to one-on-one instruction, at a fraction of the cost.
The #1 selling ballroom dancing book
Includes a fantastic, new instructional DVD and hundreds of illustrations and instructions
Allen is a renowned, award-winning ballroom-dance teacher
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Not for visual learners November 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are able learn by reading through pages of step by step instructions then this is great. However if you are a visual learner, like myself, this book will be painful. The DVD is not helpful.
It does have a lof of helpful information, but this "complete idiot" just couldn't get into this book. Gonna take it back.
 disappointed October 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was not what I was looking for. I am a beginner and yes it explains some of the dance terminology I am not familiar with but it doesn't break down the steps as I had hoped. Basically it has you learn the terminology, then lists the steps. But I don't have the time to sit and read all of this book and you have to be familiar with the terminology to figure out the steps. I was hoping it would have diagrams or something simple....,layman's terms, not dancers terms. If you are really looking to understand the dances and maybe compete..this might be a good starting point but if you are just looking to learn a few steps quickly, I would not recommend it.
You'd be an idiot to buy this book October 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The text is way, way too wordy. It could have been edited to a tenth of its length without any loss of content. The actual instruction is far too detailed to follow in any meaningful way, and the accompanying DVD is poorly organized, the video clips are far too brief, and the blurry fade-ins are very distracting. As you can tell, I was not happy with this purchase.
 Lots of fat - not much meat... March 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book uses a lot of words, but fails to make clear how to master a dance step. Disappointing. It makes a good coffee table book (one leg was shorter than the rest.)
Not entirely for dummies December 23, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had high hopes when I bought this book. I have never danced before so perhaps that is why after reading it, I did not think this book was entirely for dummies who did not know how to dance. The book had much advice about dancing and the preparatory stages before dancing, but when it came down to the actual explanations of dancing it was difficult for me to follow the sequences especially looking at a book while trying to copy what it said. I felt it focused to much on the wedding day event, which is old news for someone who has been married for a while- perhaps including a section about how to animate a reluctant spouse to dance would have been more appropriate! The book wasn't the main disappointment. It was the DVD. I had hoped for more explicit instruction when viewing the DVD and there was none. He spoke some advice during the clips but did not explain what was going on. It was like watching a performance which although beautiful to behold was still mysterious. Not having had any prior dancing experience but lots of desire to want to teach myself, I suppose I expected too much from this book and it left me naturally let down. Those who have some dancing experience will find this book much more enjoyable and will benefit from it more fully.
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