The weeks are flying by, I can’t believe it’s already mid-March. Only 6 more lessons left before my exam… Aaargh! Thankfully I have finished choreographing everything I need for my beginner’s class. I had finished most of the dance at one stage but kept forgetting the end so on the weekend just [...]
Well now I have re-learned all of levels 1-4 (whether or not I remember them is another thing). From here on it’s all business. Working out stretches, learning how to teach, choreographing, etc.
My teacher gave us some literature regarding teaching and warmups which is really interesting. I also [...]
Well, 4 weeks into my course in Jazz Associate levels (the fourth lesson is tonight). Since the last post I have acheived the following:
Re-learned levels 1 & 2 dances and half of level 3
Reviewed levels 1, 2 & 3 exercises. I’ve found out that I don’t need to memorise these, just make good [...]
For posperity, I want to chronicle my experience in the process of becoming a dance teacher. One day, I want to teach dancing as a job (most likely a second job, because I doubt if I could live off it!) so this is pretty important to me. I’ve been training in Jazz for [...]
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