Get Up and Dance!

Paula Abdul
Year Released: 1994

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


This video reminds me of Donnamite video by Donna Richardson except it has more background exercisers and of course it is more complex. The video quality is excellent. Except sometimes the camera does too many closeups so you get lost as to what you are supposed to be doing. The music is really upbeat. It goes with the moves. Paula teaches each 8 count slow and the beat of the music goes slow while she teaches it and then each time, it goes faster and faster. The background exercisers are not dancers. At the beginning of the video, Paula said that she just picked people off the street for her video( neighbors, baseball team guys). The warmup is a song by Paula. I don't know her music but it sounds like a singer is singing the first song. The choreography is very very complex like CIA moves. Most of the people in the background have practiced the moves for sure because it is tough. This video is one that you would want to get after Donnamite gets too easy. Paula has two of her dance partners helping teach the moves. Paula does not have workout clothes on but wears clothes that look like something she would wear on stage during a concert( a very tight uncomfortable looking vest with high heel shoes and flared pants.)

AFter the workout before the cool down is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. These 3 big tall guys come up and flirt with Paula and make her watch them act goofy doing the moves to YMCA by the Village Men. Paula then starts jumping and dancing around with them and giggling and laughing , flirting with them. I thought this really brought a stain onto the video. After this there is abs. It's an ok of a video. I wasn't that impressed. I guess I would rather do a fun step workout.

Instructor Comments:
Paula is very energetic and does a pretty good job on the choreography. She teaches it slow and then goes faster and faster. She is always communicating with the background bunch of exercisers which I thought was good.

Mandy Lee

06/11/1998