With Elsa Leandros (DVD/NTSC). Featuring Elsa Leandros with Debbie Saliyah Mangual, Gaby Kabul, Tanna Valentine and Angel Burgos.

Burn calories and energize your body while learning dance movements from all over the world! This unique, multi-cultural program offers an all-in-one dance workout, plus instruction in some of the most alluring and popular dance styles. Sample diverse flavors and rhythms of dance, learn authentic steps - from basic to more challenging - and take them with you to the dancefloor!

World Dance Workout is designed by Elsa Leandros, a sought-after New York City dance coach and choreographer, based on her 25 years of experience as a performer and instructor of different dance styles. Elsa uses dance movement to improve your flexibility, enhance your natural grace of motion and deliver cardio benefits. The workout is accompanied by a tutorial section where Elsa breaks down dance steps to make it easier for you to follow. Many dance moves seem challenging only until you see how they evolve from the most basic steps.

The workout includes 7 segments: warmup and cooldown, salsa, samba, bellydance, Bollywood and flamenco. Not much time to exercise? Select individual chapters to create your own, shorter program - exactly what you need to save time and fit your mood. Leaving for a party? Go straight to the dance steps you want to try on the dancefloor to refresh your skills!

Features:

* Tutorial section: detailed breakdown of dance steps

* Warmup and cooldown

* Individual 5-7min workout segments for each dance style: salsa, samba, flamenco, bellydance, Bollywood

* Join Elsa for the entire workout, or design your own program by selecting individual chapters

* Select music+narration or music only version of the workout

Meet Elsa Leandros!

Elsa Leandros is a dancer, choreographer and master dance instructor with an unparalleled expertise in a wide range of dance arts.

A choreographer and performance coach known for her enormous dance vocabulary and visionary approach to developing new and existing dance trends, Elsa's expertise is in demand among star performers of traditional ethnic and ballroom dance, as well among dancers focused on the cutting-edge fusion styles that blend dance arts from around the world.

Based in New York City, Elsa teaches world dance classes at the United Nations for the UN staff, and at NYC dance and fitness studios.

Born in Venezuela and raised in Madrid, Spain, Elsa Leandros is a world traveller who pursues her spiritual and dance education in Europe, India, East Asia, and both Latin and North America. She has performed dance for over 20 years.

Latin dance is a vital part of Elsa's cultural roots, and she teaches both social and performance Latin styles.

She studies samba in Rio de Janeiro, traveling there regularly to attend Scola do Samba do Rio.

Elsa started her flamenco dance career at the age of 6 in Madrid, with Laura de Santelmo, the #1 flamenco instructor in Spain at that time. Elsa's flamenco teachers include Spanish gypsy legends La Repompa de Malaga, Concha Vargas, El Mimbre, La Pelua, as well as Jose Molina and Estrella Morena. Elsa performed flamenco for several years with La Repompa de Malaga and her family. She also performed with Paco del Puerto, and with the world-famous Gypsy Kings. Today Elsa teaches flamenco and creates exciting flamenco choreographies for performing dancers.

Elsa's bellydance career began in the New York City studios of Anahid Sofian and Serena. She also studied with Bobby Farrah, Yousry Sharif and Ahmed Hussein, and danced with Bobby Farrah's company in Carnegie Hall, performing both Middle Eastern- and Flamenco-inspired choreographies. Elsa has performed bellydance in concert at Lincoln Center and Camy Hall in NYC, worked for many years at such famous NYC nightclubs as Darvish and Cedars of Lebanon, and toured with performances and workshops across the US and overseas, including Japan. Elsa holds master classes and workshops in bellydance, and does choreographic work. Performed by star New York dancers, Elsa's choreographies have won competitions in bellydance and fusion categories.

Elsa began her training in Indian dance with Rajika Puri and Arundhati Chattopadyaya in the Bharat Natyam style. She studied Orisi style with Rita Devi and performed classical dances of India at the Ateneo Center for the Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.

Committed to teaching dance as a way to rejuvenate and perfect both the body and the spirit, Elsa Leandros offers her unique World Dance Workout program to share her vision and experience of the transforming power of dance.