Sadie teaches combinations used in the drum solo, completely demonstrating and breaking down the technique of each movement.

Ranya Renée teaches two Modern Oriental choreographies: a beginner version and a longer intermediate/advanced version. Each choreography is broken into combinations that are taught step-by-step, with practice drills to get the movements of the choreographies into your body. The two sections enable viewers to repeat step combinations, built gradually so they can climb the steps to mastery of a wide array of variations.

A new movie version of a timeless Christmas fantasy set in motion when a young girl receives the gift of a nutcracker, (2-sided disc.)

The classic ballet about a young girl deceived by her lover, and the tragic consequences.

From an imperial-era Russian Christmas party, a young girl named Clara is whisked in her dreams to an imaginary world populated by the animated creations of the wizard toy maker Drosselmeier. Clara innocently develops a crush on the imaginary Nutcracker prince. Upon her arrival in the Land of the Sweets, she dances a yearning pas de deux with the Nutcracker Prince. It makes the ballet far more interesting. The frequent involvement of Drosselmeyer...

In a charming adaptation, one of the most popular ballets of all time is vividly recreated especially to introduce children to the world of dance.

"King Florestan the XIVth declares a grand christening ceremony to be held in honor of the birth of his daughter Princess Aurora. An entourage of all the fairies in the kingdom is invited to bestow gifts on the new-born. As the fairies are happily granting gifts of beauty, generosity, grace, song and temperament, they are suddenly interrupted by the sudden presence of the evil fairy Carabosse, who is furious at the King's failure to invite her to...

Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.

"... follows Bill T. Jones and his company create an original dance-theater piece, Fondly do we hope... fervently do we pray, in honor of Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial. ... Jones and his company comes face to face with America's unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln."--container.

Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace.