Veil Obedience School How to Become a Material Girl
Reviewed by Anala Rabari
The DVD starts with a short history of veil work and how veil work is used in performances and differs from style to style. Then there is a section on the different types of veils. Such as how they are embellished, materials they are made of, the size and the shape. I love that in the warm-up there are stretches for the hands because other programs rarely do this.
The first section after the warm-up is going through options for entering with your veil tucked into your costume in various ways. Farhana does an excellent job of explaining each way and giving you options on how to gracefully get out of it. Then there is a section on hand position. This is a great section because there is a zoomed in insert on her hand while you are seeing a full body pose.
Next Farhana goes over several framing positions with the veil and what movements they compliment. The program than covers walking entrances with the veil and how to discard the veil when you are done with it. A truly fabulous part of this DVD is that several times she demonstrates the move with out the veil. I love this because so many times you can't really tell what movement the arms are doing in order to manipulate the veil. She than demonstrates with the veil from numerous angles. The next sections cover several standard veil movements with turns and spins and other footwork. There is than a very useful section on veil work with zills. And the useful hand zooms return to demonstrate how to hold everything. The DVD ends with a section on care and maintenance of a veil.
I have a few criticism which are common for a lot of instructional DVDs. I wish there had been more music and there were some audio difficulties. However, the features of this instructional DVD more than make up for these tiny flaws. There is also bonus performance footage of Princess Farhana as well as bonus footage of some additional moves with the veil.