The Power Wave

There's a saying that begins "You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and work like you don't need the money...." The Power Wave explores the first part of that proposition...with wild abandonment. A cross between the whirling dervishes, slow motion break-dancing, and the boogie down fancy footwork of "Can I Get a Witness" Godfather of Soul, James Brown, this workout tape features ecstatic dancers who not only don't care who's watching, they don't care within a half mile radius on the dance floor. Gabrielle Roth, movement artist and ethereal voice-over instructor, leads a group of non-professional dancers "working out" to the beat of their own drummers; eyes closed; stretching, twirling, twisting and crouching as a disembodied voice says, "don't do the dance, let the dance do you." Sporting excellent production values and some of the nicest editing I've seen on any instructional tape, The Power Wave uses elements of Tai Chi, the "five universal rhythm patterns" (including "chaos" and "stillness"), a killer soundtrack by a percussion/chanting group called Tribe, and a creative improvisation process to help each of us celebrate our own dance of life. An excellent introduction to this intuitive ‘aerobics as art' form, The Power Wave is ecstatically recommended. Also available as part of a 3-volume set, priced at $49.95, called Ecstatic Wave, which includes The Wave and The Inner Wave. Aud: P. (N. Plympton)